Entra 🆔 News #79 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about passkey rollouts 🛡️, the top 50 Entra features of 2024 🚀, securing Azure DevOps 🔐, and more! ✨
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
It looks like 2025 is shaping up to be the year of passkeys. We have an excellent podcast episode on passkeys and Verified ID with Darren Robinson. Plus, don't miss the responses to Michael Freeman’s post, where he asked for feedback from folks who have rolled out passkeys.
Enjoy!
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⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
Microsoft Entra: Top 50 features of 2024 • Shobhit Sahay
🔥 Public Preview
Announcing the Public Preview of Apple Identity Provider Support for Microsoft Entra External ID • Bora Ozbayburtlu
📖 Read
Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps • Angel Wong
📺 Watch
Automate the employee identity lifecycle with Microsoft Entra ID Governance (3 min) • Microsoft Security
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
First-Time Sign-In for New Entra ID Users: Exploring the Best Options • Ronnie van Buuren
How much time your users are wasting with “traditional” MFA? • Dániel Kovács
Terraforming Privileged Access Management with Entra ID PIM for Groups 🚀 • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Identity Governance in the Digital Identity Era • Marcelo di Iorio
Create Access Packages in Entra ID Governance with PowerShell • Christian Frohn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
📦 Apps
Secure your Apps : Custom Security Attributes, Conditional Access and Privileged Permissions • Manish Periwal
Runbook to check Entra Apps with expiring ClientSecrets and Certificates • Andres Bohren
🔑 Authentication
First-Time Sign-In for New Entra ID Users: Exploring the Best Options • Ronnie van Buuren
9 ways to improve your M365 MFA deployment in 2025 • Daniel Bradley
A look into authentication: Authentication Protocols • Twan van Beers
Dealing with sign-in error code 500121: Authentication failed during strong authentication request • Ewelina Paczkowska
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Practical Graph: Combining Sign In Activity and App Detail in a User Report • Tony Redmond
Entra ID Tenant Information API - Updated! 🎉 • Chris Greenacre
🚦 Conditional Access
Elevating Security with Conditional Access and Protected Actions in Microsoft Entra ID • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🔐 Credential Management
Enabling QR code sign-in for Microsoft Entra ID • Daniel Bradley
🥷 Security
Enhance Token Security with Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Intune • Oliver Müller
Protecting your Break Glass accounts in Entra now that MFA gets enforced on more and more Admin portals • Kenneth van Surksum
Compliant Device Bypass, Oh My! • Alex Fields
📒 Tenant Configuration
Ensuring Access to Your Microsoft Entra Tenant in Case of Emergency • Flavio Meyer
Administrative Units • Julian Rasmussen
⚒️ Toolkit
🎙️ Podcasts
Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik - RunAs Radio • Bailey Bercik, Richard Campbell
Episode 95: Passkeys & Verifiable Creds • Darren Robinson, Nicolas Blank, and Chris Goosen
📺 Watch
BlackHat Europe Arsenal 2024 - msInvader : Simulating Adversary Techniques in M365 & Azure (35 min) • Mauricio Velazco
Securing API Plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot with Entra ID (17 min) • Bob German
Entra ID - Email as an alternate login ID (Public Preview) (10 min) • Rio Hindle
How to Setup and Monitor "Report-Only" Conditional Access Policies (8 min) • Steve Weiner
Microsoft Entra ID Tips & Tricks 2025 (19 min) • Andy Malone
Mastering Microsoft Entra Private Access: Step-by-Step Deployment Guide (24 min) • Travis Roberts
How to Set Up Temporary Access Pass and Custom Banned Passwords in Microsoft 365 (7 min) • Control Alt Delete Tech
Entra Private Access: Creating New Connectors Made Easy (1 min) • Travis Roberts
Unlocking Microsoft Entra Private Access: Licensing Guide (1 min) • Travis Roberts
Monitor the impact of Conditional Access (1 min) • Steve Weiner
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