Entra 🆔 News #75 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about PIM in Azure RBAC going GA 🌟, public preview of application discovery in Global Secure Access 🌍🔍, passkey adoption 🔑, training videos 🎥📚, and more. Plus, 🔥 Maester hits v1 🎉
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
We were expecting things to slow down on the Entra news front, but it looks like this is another blockbuster week with plenty to read, watch, and catch up on.
The biggest news from our personal project front is the GA release of Maester v1. If you’ve been waiting to try it out, now is a good time. Check out the new blog we launched at https://maester.dev/blog.
BTW, don’t miss the Migrating From AD to Entra ID session published by the Entra product group. It’s a long watch, but it dives deep into the details. Be sure to save it to your watchlist for later.
Enjoy!
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⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
Assign Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management • Microsoft Learn
🔥 Public Preview
Application discovery for Global Secure Access • Microsoft Learn
📖 Read
Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security • Sangeeta Ranjit, Scott Bingham
Windows 11 Security Book • Microsoft Learn
📺 Watch
Migrating From AD to Entra ID - How to Successfully Navigate the Cloud Transformation Journey (78 min) • Ramiro Calderon, Dhanyah Krishnamoorthy, Mihai Popa, Justin Ploegert
Creating trust in remote onboarding and recovery with Entra Verified ID (47 min) • Harris Podell, Ankur Patel, Sri Ponnada
425 Show | Securing Generative AI with Microsoft Entra (49 min) • Diana Vicezar, Kristina Smith, Bailey Bercik
Visual Studio Code extension for Microsoft Entra External ID (11 min) • Yoel Horvitz, Sameeksha Raina
Connect customers to agents securely with Microsoft Entra External ID and Copilot Studio integration (25 min) • Joylynn Kirui, Fabian Alves, Gomolemo Mohapi
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Microsoft Zero Trust Workshop – The Assesment tool, an ideal tool to jumpstart your journey. • Joery Van den Bosch
Using the Audit Log to Generate a Daily Action Summary for a User • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Entra ID Protection: Protect Identities, Detect Risks and Mitigate Threats • Oliver Müller
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
A way to handle distributions lists with Entra ID Governance • Christian Frohn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
SAP GUI MFA with Microsoft Entra (Part II): Integration with Microsoft Entra Private Access • Martin Raepple
Microsoft Entra Private Network Connector: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Internal Access • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
How I solved a strange Kerberos issue • Peter Klapwijk
📦 Apps
How to deal with the “Migrate Service Principals from the retiring Azure AD Graph APIs to Microsoft Graph” recommendation • Vasil Michev
Understanding Microsoft Entra ID App Registrations, Enterprise Apps and Service Principals • Martin Heusser
Filtering App Registrations and Enterprise Apps by tags • Rakhesh Sasidharan
Understanding Microsoft Entra ID App Registrations, Enterprise Apps and Service Principals • Martin Heusser
Authenticating Azure OpenAI with Managed Identity • Luke Murray
🔑 Authentication
The Evilginx Threat: Protecting Your Credentials with Phishing Resistant MFA • Imran Rashid
I failed a phishing simulation • Loryan Strant
👥 User & Group Management
New Option Available to Update Microsoft 365 User Profile • Tony Redmond
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Graph X-Ray = ❤️ • Brian Veldman
🚦 Conditional Access
Analyzing Impact and Safely Deploying Conditional Access Policies • Anton Willoughby
Analysis of Service Principal Sign-Ins: Patterns, Locations, and Frequency - Conditional Access for Workload Identities • Manish Periwal
How to fix the FUNDAMENTAL flaw in Conditional Access (Part 2 – the 5 steps of hardening) • Per-Torben Sørensen
🔐 Credential Management
A look into authentication: Multi Factor Authentication • Antonius van Beers
🥷 Security
Oasis Security Research Team Discovers Microsoft Azure MFA Bypass • Tal Hason
AADInternals-Endpoints 😈 • Dr.Nestori Syynimaa
📒 Tenant Configuration
How to receive Entra admin email notifications without a mailbox • Daniel Bradley
🛍️ External ID - Customers
⚒️ Toolkit
mvelazc0/msInvader - M365/Azure adversary simulation tool designed to simulate adversary techniques and generate attack telemetry • Mauricio Velazco
secureworks/pytune - Pytune is a post-exploitation tool for enrolling a fake device into Intune with mulitple platform support • Secureworks
🎙️ Podcasts
01x01_mfa.exe • Chris Goosen, Koos Goossens
📺 Watch
Microsoft SC-900: Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals (217 min) • Rio Hindle
Cybersecurity Expert Reacts To M365 Defaults [Detailed Breakdown] (22 min) • Ru Campbell
Microsoft Entra External ID - Deployment Architectures (40 min) • Daniel Krzyczkowski
Protect AI with Conditional Access (Entra ID) (7 min) • Rio Hindle
Getting Started with Graph Part 2: What can we do with it? (15 min) • Steve Weiner
Getting Started with Graph Part 4: Automate Everyday Admin Tasks (13 min) • Steve Weiner
🔥 Maester
Maester v1 - General Availability • Merill Fernando
Send daily Maester alerts to → Microsoft Teams • Merill Fernando
Download Maester Presentation Slide Decks from the new Maester content hub • Merill Fernando
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