Entra 🆔 News #81 → This week in Microsoft Entra
🧩 Learn about new Identity Secure Score recommendations going GA 📈, 🚪 public preview of OpenID Connect External ID provider support 🌀, and the general availability of Custom URL Domains 🌐.
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
The Entra community has been busy this week with heaps of new posts, videos and toolkit releases.
Enjoy!
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AI for Identity and Access (15 sec) • Microsoft Security
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From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Compliant Device Bypass - All you need to know! • Fabian Bader, Christopher Brumm, Thomas Naunheim
Intune Attack Paths — Part 1 • Andy Robbins
The curious case of the missing Enterprise App • Nathan Hutchinson
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Enhanced Security with Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)Tips for Better Role Control • Mark Oldham
Automate user Reprocess in Entra ID Governance Entitlement Management using Sentinel and PowerShell • Christian Frohn
Managing Application attributes with Microsoft Entra Access Packages and SCIM • Michele Blum
📦 Apps
Adding the MSAL4J library to a desktop Java application • Rory Braybrook
🔑 Authentication
Navigating New Authentication Methods: SMS for Password Reset, Not for MFA • Kenneth van Surksum
👥 User & Group Management
Entra ID Allows People to Update their User Principal Names • Tony Redmond
How to Replace Group Owners When They Leave the Organization • Tony Redmond
Provisioning Entra Users On-Demand with Powershell Graph • Jóhannes Geir Kristjánsson
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Microsoft adds more granular permissions for working with user objects via the Graph API • Vasil Michev
Configure Entra External Collaboration Settings with Microsoft Graph • Andres Bohren
Primer: How to Use Azure Automation to Run Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Scripts • Tony Redmond
Register Application in EntraID – Using PowerShell • Drago Petrovic
Restore Microsoft 365 users with a new username using PowerShell • Daniel Bradley
🚦 Conditional Access
Conditional Access device filter – no, not that one, the good one! • Per-Torben Sørensen
Secure your conditional access with Admin units • Julian Rasmussen
🥷 Security
Entra ID Destruction: How Attackers Leverage User.DeleteRestore.All • Elli Shlomo
Entra Connect Attacker Tradecraft: Part 2 • Daniel H.
Protecting Emergency Access Accounts with Microsoft Entra ID Restricted Management Administrative Units • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
♻️ Sync
Uninstall Microsoft Entra Connect: A Step-by-Step Guide • Prajwal Desai
📒 Tenant Configuration
How To Achieve Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Compliance with Microsoft 365 • Arvind Suthar
⚒️ Toolkit
Microsoft 365 CLI - New Entra PIM commands • Adam Wójcik
Managed Identity Permission Manager – v. 1.0.0.4 is out! • Michael Morten Sonne
Entra Passkey Metadata Script • Nathan McNulty
EntraID - Suspicious activity report • Alex Verboon
🎙️ Podcasts
Episode 108: Securing GenAI Applications with Entra • Michael Howard, Sarah Young, Gladys Rodriguez and Mark Simos
📺 Watch
Secure Your Microsoft 365 Anywhere with Entra Internet Access (2 min) • Jonathan Edwards
The VPN is DEAD (probably) (20 min) • Dean Ellerby
How to Stop Device Code Flow Attacks in Entra [Phishing Defense] (5 min) • Ru Campbell
How to manage copilot in Microsoft 365 and how to block risky signs with conditional access (11 min) • *Control alt delete tech bits *
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