Entra π News #76 β This week in Microsoft Entra
π It's the last week before the holidays, but the Entra team still managed to squeeze in a β¨ new public preview and a π GA feature! Plus updates on guest governance licensing π₯πβand more! π
π Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this weekβs roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe π.
Todayβs post comes to you from the sunny isle of Sri Lanka, where we just started our vacation π΄βοΈποΈπββοΈπ.
π We wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!π
Enjoy!
β‘οΈ Microsoft
Updates and billing guidance for guest governance β’ Kaitlin Murphy
π General Availability
βWhatβs Newβ in Microsoft Entra is Generally Available β’ Shobhit Sahay
π₯ Public Preview
Effortlessly access cloud resources across Azure tenants without using secrets β’ Arturo Lucatero, Den Delimarsky, Dan Kershaw
π Read
Agile Business, agile security: How AI and Zero Trust work together β’ Mark Simos
New Microsoft guidance for the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model β’ Steve Faehl
πΊ Watch
425 Show | Evilginx: How Threat Actors Perform Phishing and Token Theft Attacks (27 min) β’ Jasmine Edwards, John Flores, Bailey Bercik
From the communityβ¦
π Most popular posts from last week
Understanding Microsoft Entra ID App Registrations, Enterprise Apps and Service Principals β’ Martin Heusser
How to receive Entra admin email notifications without a mailbox β’ Daniel Bradley
New Option Available to Update Microsoft 365 User Profile β’ Tony Redmond
βοΈ Learn
π Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Microsoft Traffic Profile: A Quick Guide to Optimize Security β’ Muthupandi MK
Secure Your SaaS Applications with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access and Source IP Anchoring β’ Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
π¦ Apps
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps β Visibility into applications with highly privileged permissions, whether used or unused β’ Michael Morten Sonne
π Authentication
A look into authentication: Passwordless and Passkeys β’ Twan van Beers
π€ DevOps & PowerShell
Automatic information package for newly licensed Copilot users! β’ Alexander Holmeset
Practical Graph: Understanding What Happens When the Connect-MgGraph Cmdlet Runs β’ Tony Redmond
Microsoft Graph Bicep Extension β’ Christos Galanopoulos
Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell β’ Tony Redmond
Exchange Online and RBAC for applications β’ Rakhesh Sasidharan
π¦ Conditional Access
How to fix the FUNDAMENTAL flaw in Conditional Access (Part 3 β miscellaneous tips) β’ Per-Torben SΓΈrensen
π Credential Management
User Guide: How to register passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator and physical passkeys β’ Imran Rashid
ποΈ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
π₯· Security
Escalating privileges to read secrets with Azure Key Vault access policies β’ Katie Knowles
Microsoft Proposes a Horrible Change for the Search-UnifiedAuditLog Cmdlet β’ Tony Redmond
βοΈ Toolkit
Terraform - Azure RBAC-Administrator module - Terraform module to help create role assignment for the role Role Based Access Control Administrator. β’ HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard
aollivierre/ConditionalAccess - Comprehensive set of Conditional Access (CA) policies and PowerShell management tools for Microsoft Entra ID β’ Abdullah Ollivierre
New-ManagedIdentityGraphExOPermissions.ps1 - Script to grant a Managed Identity access to Graph and Exchange Online Powershell β’ Dylan T.
awood-ops/entraid-powershell - Script to automate the creation of service principals, assignment of roles, and configuration of service connections in Azure DevOps β’ Andy Wood
ποΈ Podcasts
Episode 392: Michael & Mark on Entra ID β’ Tom Bridge, Marcus Ransom, Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski
πΊ Watch
What Youβre Doing Wrong with Identity Governance [Practical Tips] (37 min) β’ Ru Campbell
Restrict admin access to specific privileged workstations - Heres How! (1 min) β’ Dean Ellerby
Getting Started with Graph Part 6: Querying Attributes Across Objects (14 min) β’ Steve Weiner
Getting Started with Graph Part 7: Create an App Registration (15 min) β’ Steve Weiner
π₯ Maester
π¨π½βπ» Merillβs corner
Getting started with Entra β’ Rene Vlieger, Merill Fernando
πͺ Acknowledgement of Country
Entra.News is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay my respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.