Entra 🆔 News #77 → This week in Microsoft Entra

Learn how to use 🔥 Maester to unit test and regression test your Entra HR-Driven Provisioning configuration and more in this week's newsletter.

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

It might be a holiday week but the Entra community keeps delivering the goods.

Enjoy!

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

• A look into authentication: Passwordless and Passkeys • Twan van Beers

• How to fix the FUNDAMENTAL flaw in Conditional Access (Part 3 – miscellaneous tips) • Per-Torben Sørensen

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Visibility into applications with highly privileged permissions, whether used or unused • Michael Morten Sonne

☀️ Learn

🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)

• Revolutionize Remote Access with Microsoft Entra Private Access: SSO via Windows Hello & Cloud Kerberos Trust • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai

📦 Apps

• Microsoft now allows connecting to Multi-tenant apps using Managed Identities • Daniel Bradley

• Multi tenant managed identity is finally here • Stephan Van Rooij

🔑 Authentication

• Export Microsoft 365 Users Last Password Change Date and Time • Ali Tajran

🤖 DevOps & PowerShell

• Better Azure Identity authentication support and performance during local development with .NET Aspire • Anthony Simmon

🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations

• The Guest Access Riddle: Why Partner Accounts Struggle With Access To different Microsoft Services • Flavio Meyer

• External Collaboration Settings with Application Permissions • Suryendu Bhattacharyya

📈 Reporting and Insights

• Microsoft Azure Cross Tenant Azure AD Domain Join & RBAC Goofiness • Ashley Kingscote

🥷 Security

• TokenSmith – Bypassing Intune Compliant Device Conditional Access • Sunny Chau

• Is permanent admin access elevation to User Access Administrator role a risk? • Tommi Hovi

🛍️ External ID - Customers

• Connecting Entra External ID to Kinde as an external provider via OIDC • Rory Braybrook

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⚒️ Toolkit

• Managed Identity Permission Manager – v. 1.0.0.3 is out! • Michael Morten Sonne

• zh54321/PoCEntraDeviceComplianceBypass - Simple pure PowerShell POC to bypass Entra / Intune Compliance Conditional Access Policy • zh54321

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📺 Watch

• Identity Theft is not a Joke, Azure! (36 min) • Karl Fosaaen

• Configuring Amazon WorkSpaces Pools with Entra ID (Part One) • Amazon Web Services

• Filter Devices: Easy Conditional Access Policy (1 min) • Dean Ellerby

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🔥 Maester

• Using Maester and HRProvisioningTests to Unit Test Your HR-Driven Provisioning • Suryendu Bhattacharyya

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