Entra 🆔 News #152 → This week in Microsoft Entra

Learn about soft delete of devices, Agent ID updates and more...

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

There are lots of new updates this week, thanks to the announcements from Build. Martin Coetzer has put together a really good summary, so make sure you check it out.

This week’s Entra Chat episode was slightly different from our usual programming. Christina Morillo joined us to share career tips, and the reviews and comments speak for themselves. Don’t forget to add Entra Chat to your weekly podcast queue.

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⚡️ Microsoft

🏆 General Availability

• Build AI agents for production with secure identities from day one • Arturo Lucatero

🔥 Public Preview

• Device soft delete in Microsoft Entra ID (preview)

• What’s New in Microsoft Entra: June 2026 • Martin Coetzer

📖 Read

• Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle • Ales Holecek

• Run Global Secure Access with confidence: Introducing the GSA Operations Guide • Thomas Detzner

📺 Watch

• 📺 MFA Everywhere: Closing the Legacy Gap in Your Essential 8 Strategy is now available • Andres Canello, Deepika Mahankali and Vik Verma

• 📺 Redefining identity security for the modern enterprise • Jared Ross, Heike Ritter and Martin Schvartzman

🗣️ Message Center

• RM518221 - Microsoft Entra: Cross-tenant security group synchronization

• RM559476 - Microsoft Entra: Account Discovery for Application Access Governance.

• MC1381116 - Microsoft Entra: Web categorization changes for Entra Global Secure Access

• MC1223829 - Upcoming Conditional Access change: Improved enforcement for policies with resource exclusions

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

• 🥇Time to move to Entra Cloud Sync • Michael Niehaus

• 🥈Emergency Access Application • Josimar Hedler

• 🥉Why Most Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) Processes in Microsoft 365 Are Still Broken • Shaun Hardneck

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☀️ Learn

👩‍✈️ AI & Copilot

• 📺 Protecting Your Environment: Governing AI Agents with Entra! • Peter Rising

🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)

• What’s New in Entra Global Secure Access Client v2.31.125 • Richard Hicks

📦 Apps

• Entra ID - Now you can disable an Enterprise Application via Microsoft Graph! • Michael Morten Sonne

• How to Deactivate an Application in Entra ID: Complete Guide • Prajwal Desai

🫆 Authentication

• Difference between a password reset in the Microsoft portals • Jay Kerai

• System-Preferred Authentication is Coming to the First-Factor Login Screen • Daniel Bradley

• Microsoft Entra Authentication Methods • Daniel Hedegaard Arp

👥 User & Group Management

• How to Secure Delegated Admin Access in the My Staff Portal • kanaga

• Microsoft Launches Container Management Support for Security Groups • Tony Redmond

🚦 Conditional Access

• Stop Applying Sign-In Frequency to All Users. Use Authentication Contexts for Step-Up MFA • Rawson Wade

• Create Attribute-Driven Conditional Access Policy for Agent Identities • Dishan M. Francis

• 📺 Entra ID Security Defaults: What They Are & When to Turn Them Off • Jonathan Edwards

🖥️ Devices

• Microsoft Introduces Soft Delete for Devices in Entra ID • AIMA

• Remote Desktop to Microsoft Entra Joined Devices: RDP with Windows Hello for Business, NLA, and Web Sign-In Explained • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai

• How to restore devices deleted in Microsoft Entra • Daniel Bradley

• Azure Virtual Desktop Introduces Context-Based Redirections • Kevin Kaminski

• 📺 Ditch Active Directory? Entra ID for On-Prem Servers! • Travis Roberts

📈 Reporting and Insights

• Report Distribution List Changes in Microsoft 365 Tenants • Tony Redmond

🥷 Security

• The Privileged Roles Nobody Talks About • Carlos Perez

• Breaking bitlocker again • Jonas L

• The Zero-Trust Edge is Getting Sharper: What Admins Need to Know for Entra in Summer 2026 • Colby Pryor

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🎙️ Podcasts

• Automate the Boring Stuff: Practical SecOps for Microsoft 365 • Chris Goosen and Koos Goossens

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