👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Today’s post comes to you from the sunny isle of Sri Lanka, where we just started our vacation 🌴☀️🏖️🏄♂️😎.
🎄 We wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!🎄
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
Updates and billing guidance for guest governance • Kaitlin Murphy
🏆 General Availability
“What’s New” in Microsoft Entra is Generally Available • Shobhit Sahay
🔥 Public Preview
Effortlessly access cloud resources across Azure tenants without using secrets • Arturo Lucatero, Den Delimarsky, Dan Kershaw
📖 Read
Agile Business, agile security: How AI and Zero Trust work together • Mark Simos
New Microsoft guidance for the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model • Steve Faehl
📺 Watch
425 Show | Evilginx: How Threat Actors Perform Phishing and Token Theft Attacks (27 min) • Jasmine Edwards, John Flores, Bailey Bercik
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Understanding Microsoft Entra ID App Registrations, Enterprise Apps and Service Principals • Martin Heusser
How to receive Entra admin email notifications without a mailbox • Daniel Bradley
New Option Available to Update Microsoft 365 User Profile • Tony Redmond
☀️ Learn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Microsoft Traffic Profile: A Quick Guide to Optimize Security • Muthupandi MK
Secure Your SaaS Applications with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access and Source IP Anchoring • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
📦 Apps
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Visibility into applications with highly privileged permissions, whether used or unused • Michael Morten Sonne
🔑 Authentication
A look into authentication: Passwordless and Passkeys • Twan van Beers
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Automatic information package for newly licensed Copilot users! • Alexander Holmeset
Practical Graph: Understanding What Happens When the Connect-MgGraph Cmdlet Runs • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Graph Bicep Extension • Christos Galanopoulos
Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell • Tony Redmond
Exchange Online and RBAC for applications • Rakhesh Sasidharan
🚦 Conditional Access
How to fix the FUNDAMENTAL flaw in Conditional Access (Part 3 – miscellaneous tips) • Per-Torben Sørensen
🔐 Credential Management
User Guide: How to register passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator and physical passkeys • Imran Rashid
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
🥷 Security
Escalating privileges to read secrets with Azure Key Vault access policies • Katie Knowles
Microsoft Proposes a Horrible Change for the Search-UnifiedAuditLog Cmdlet • Tony Redmond
⚒️ Toolkit
Terraform - Azure RBAC-Administrator module - Terraform module to help create role assignment for the role Role Based Access Control Administrator. • Håvard Løkensgard
aollivierre/ConditionalAccess - Comprehensive set of Conditional Access (CA) policies and PowerShell management tools for Microsoft Entra ID • Abdullah Ollivierre
New-ManagedIdentityGraphExOPermissions.ps1 - Script to grant a Managed Identity access to Graph and Exchange Online Powershell • 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 • Andy Wood
🎙️ Podcasts
Episode 392: Michael & Mark on Entra ID • Tom Bridge, Marcus Ransom, Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski
📺 Watch
What You’re Doing Wrong with Identity Governance [Practical Tips] (37 min) • Ru Campbell
Restrict admin access to specific privileged workstations - Heres How! (1 min) • Dean Ellerby
Getting Started with Graph Part 6: Querying Attributes Across Objects (14 min) • Steve Weiner
Getting Started with Graph Part 7: Create an App Registration (15 min) • Steve Weiner
🔥 Maester
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
Getting started with Entra • Rene Vlieger, Merill Fernando
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