Entra 🆔 News #155 → This week in Microsoft Entra
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👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
We are light on news from Microsoft but there are some excellent posts from the community this week especially around security including Dirk-jan and more.
Enjoy!
From Windows Core to Leading Agent ID: Vince Smith’s Microsoft Story
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⚡️ Microsoft
📖 Read
📺 Watch
📺 Strengthen your security posture with Microsoft Entra Conditional Access • Swaroop Krishnamurthy
📺 AI-Powered Identity Security and Live Demos of Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra • Luca Spolidoro and Mamta Kumar
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From the community…
☀️ Learn
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
📺 Agent ID in Microsoft Entra: Securing the Identity of AI Agents • Microsoft Security Community and Vijaya Lakshmi Nukula
📦 Apps
Authentication
Your iPhone Can Manage Passkeys on a YubiKey. Yubico’s Own App Just Won’t Let It • Dr. Emin Huseynov
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Using Graph Delta Queries with Entra ID Groups • Tony Redmond
🚦 Conditional Access
📺 New Entra ID Conditional Access Features June 2026 • Andy Malone
🥷 Security
Bypassing Conditional Access policies that have a resource exclusion • Dirk-jan Mollema
Bypassing Microsoft Entra Conditional Access Policies via Nested App Authentication • Thomas Byrne
Zero Trust - Data as the Trust Boundary • Guillaume Bossiroy
Secure And Monitor Your Microsoft Copilot Studio AI Agents Real Time • Michael Vink
From ESTS Cookie Replay to Inbox Persistence • Elli Shlomo
Azure AD Graph Activity Logs: detecting directory enumeration • Terrance DeJesus
♻️ Sync
Microsoft Entra Connect Sync – Passwordless Authentication – now supported! • Michael Morten Sonne
Sync and seek: User matching in tenant migrations • Per-Torben Sorensen
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Migrating from Azure AD B2C to Microsoft Entra External ID: Applications, Authentication Methods, Branding and Users (Part 1) • Mateusz Jendza
Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID (EEID) migration tools • Rory Braybrook
⚒️ Toolkit
🛠️ GitHub - cmaneu/entra-local: A local Entra ID emulator for application developers that need to mock authentication • Christopher Maneu
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