Entra 🆔 News #156 → This week in Microsoft Entra

Learn about Entra Backup and Recovery going GA, public preview of custom extensions for PIM and more!

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

Some cool new features dropped this week and we also have Entra Backup and Recovery going GA.

Plus don’t forget to check out this week’s podcast. It’s a fascinating discussion with Thomas Roccia on AI threat intelligence and AI agent security.

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

🏆 General Availability

• Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery is now generally available • Cindy Crane

🔥 Public Preview

• Bring business logic into PIM role activation workflows • Kaitlin Murphy

• Protect sensitive data in motion across SaaS and AI apps with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra • Sule Tatar

📖 Read

• Securing AI agents: When AI tools move from reading to acting • Microsoft Incident Response

• ​​What’s new in Microsoft Security: June 2026 • Alym Rayani

• Improving security posture across the Microsoft partner ecosystem • Raji Dani

🗣️ Message Center

• MC12825068 - General Availability: Microsoft Entra passkeys on Windows (Updated)

• MC1409305 - Microsoft Entra: Blocking new assignments to partner tier support roles

• MC1411574 - Microsoft Entra: System-preferred authentication now applies to first-factor authentication

• RM566869 - Microsoft Entra: Upcoming changes to federatedTokenValidationPolicy default settings

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

• 🥇 Microsoft Entra Connect Sync – Passwordless Authentication – now supported! • Michael Morten Sonne

• 🥈 Your iPhone Can Manage Passkeys on a YubiKey. Yubico’s Own App Just Won’t Let It • Dr. Emin Huseynov

• 🥉 Bypassing Conditional Access policies that have a resource exclusion • Dirk-jan Mollema

☀️ Learn

👩‍✈️ AI & Copilot

• Security Copilot • Michael Frank

• EntraPulse: Tenant Profiles, Lokka 2.0 Interactive Apps, and Microsoft Enterprise MCP - darrenjrobinson • Darren Robinson

• 📺 Episode 431: Agent Governance Is the New App Governance • Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

🧰 Workload ID

• Monitoring Microsoft Entra Application Secrets Across Multiple Tenants with Azure Automation • Dominic Eames

• Authenticating AWS Workloads to Azure Functions using Workload Identity Federation • Kasturi

• 🎙️ Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 349 - Back to basics: Managed identities vs. Service Principals vs. App Registrations • Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren

• Cross Tenant Microsoft Graph Access Using Federated Identity Credential • Brian Veldman

⛑️ ID Protection

• A New Face for Risky User Management in Microsoft Entra • Colby Pryor

👮‍♂️ ID Governance

• Microsoft Purview Adds Native Role Assignment Time Limits • Daniel Bradley

• How to use Azure Functions to run PowerShell scripts in Entra ID Governance • Christian Frohn

🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)

• Entra ID – You can now use your own device (BYOD) with global secure access to connect to private access profile • Benoit HAMET

• RM566528 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Extend Purview data security to the network layer via Entra GSA integration

🫆 Authentication

• Microsoft Entra ID SSPR Will Require Registered Authentication Methods • Rudy Mens

• How To Enable And Roll Out Microsoft Authenticator Passkeys In Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide - CHARBEL NEMNOM - MVP | MCT | CCSP • Charbel Nemnom

• 📺 Passwords Alone DON’T WORK! Secure M365/Azure with Entra ID MFA! • Travis Roberts

• 📺 The Passwordless Trap: Why Passkeys Break Entra ID SSPR! • Azure Brother

🥷 Security

• I didn’t REALLY understand FOCI & BroCI… until now (Kinda) • Sapir Federovsky

• 📺 90% of MSPs Handle Admin Access The Wrong Way (Fix It!) • Jonathan Edwards

• 📺 Secure containers from code to runtime • Microsoft Mechanics

• 📺 Zero Trust security for AI agents • Microsoft Mechanics

📒 Tenant Configuration

• Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery and How to Use It • Mark Oldham

• Add some BAESL to your M365 Sandbox! • Colby Pryor

• Microsoft 365 Business Standard vs Premium (2026 Update) • Rudy Mens

🛍️ External ID - Customers

• Getting a checklist before Azure AD B2C migration using EntraExporter • Rory Braybrook

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