Entra 🆔 News #83 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about 🚀 GA of new Entra Connect Sync version, 🔒 protected actions for hard deletes, ⚡ real-time password spray detections, and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with your weekly roundup of the latest Microsoft Entra news.
This week, we’re featuring some great videos on passkeys from the Microsoft product teams, presented at the recent FIDO Alliance Authenticate conference. Shoutout to Greg Thomson for the tip! 🙌
Enjoy!
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📖 Read
February 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates • James Casey
Accelerating the Anomalous Sign-Ins detection with Microsoft Entra ID and Security Copilot • Hesham Saad
📺 Watch
Authenticate 2024: Passkeys on Windows: New Platform Features (25 min) • Bob Gilbert
Authenticate 2024: Passkeys on Windows: Paving the Way to a Frictionless Future! (27 min) • Sushma K, Ritesh Kumar
Authenticate 2024: Bringing Passkeys into your Passwordless Journey (25 min) • Tim Larson, Michael Epping
Secure Your Resources and Roles with Entra Verified ID (59 min) • Jai Maharaj, Yusuke Kodama
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Blocking Unauthorized Access to Service Principals Using Entra ID Conditional Access • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
Comparing Web Filtering and Security: Microsoft Entra Internet Access (Global Secure Access) vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) • Kenneth van Surksum
Microsoft accidentally allows users to update their own username • Daniel Bradley
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Automating Azure PIM Role Elevation with PowerShell • Øystein
How to Export PIM Roles in Microsoft Entra ID • Ali Tajran
📦 Apps
Secretless cross tenant access – Logic Apps + Dataverse • Natraj Yegnaraman
Entra ID Introduces New Graph Permissions for User Accounts • Tony Redmond
Find multi-tenant applications using weak authentication methods • Daniel Bradley
🔑 Authentication
How to register for QR code authentication in Microsoft 365 • Daniel Bradley
Configure Entra ID as the SSO provider for Google Workspace • Gannon Novak
👥 User & Group Management
Microsoft Introduces People Administrator Role • Tony Redmond
Export Users with Admin Role in Microsoft 365 • Rudy Mens
How to Set Up Administrative Units and Use the My Staff Portal in Microsoft Entra ID • Mark Oldham
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Using Azure Workload Identity Federation (OIDC) with Azure DevOps to deploy Terraform • Sarah Lean
Microsoft Entra PowerShell Module: A Game-Changer • Flavio Meyer
Unlocking Microsoft Graph API with PowerShell: My Journey from Confusion to Clarity • Matthew Levy
Giving Granular Controls to Azure EasyAuth • Justin Yoo
🚦 Conditional Access
Protect deletion of directory objects using Conditional Access • Daniel Bradley
Creating a Conditional access policy with Authentication strength control programmatically • Vasil Michev
🖥️ Devices
Entra ID Joined, Intune managed device with SysInternals Autologon (Kiosk on a Budget) • Joey Verlinden
Windows Hello for Business: Enhanced Sign-in Security • Nicklas Ahlberg
BitLocker Stale Recovery Key Cleanup: No More Silent Encryption Failures • Rudy Ooms
5 reasons you should go cloud native with Windows 11 • Ola Ström
🥷 Security
Interpreting SignIn Audit Records for Service Principals • Tony Redmond
Entra configurations you MUST do! • Julian Rasmussen
Phish-Resistant MFA: A Quick Roadmap for the SMB • Alex Fields
AiTM/ MFA phishing attacks in combination with “new” Microsoft protections (2024 edition) • Jeffrey Appel
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Entra External ID Token Enrichment • Mateusz Jendza
⚒️ Toolkit
HuskyHacks/cazadora - Simple hunting script for hunting sussy M365 OAuth Apps • Matt Kiely
uniQuk/caReports - A collection of PowerShell scripts for analyzing, documenting, and visualising Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Conditional Access policies. • Josh
🚀 Managed Identity Permission Manager v1.1.0.0 is here! 🚀 • Michael Morten Sonne
🎙️ Podcasts
RunAsRadio - Microsoft Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans • Richard Campbell, Corissa Koopmans
01x03_authmail.eml-and-identity.gov • Chris Goosen, Koos Goossens
📺 Watch
GraphSpy - Device Code Token Theft Made Easy (20 min) • SYNACK Time
Secure Web Access with Entra Internet Access (19 min) • Travis Roberts
Managed identity - System and user-assigned demos (32 min) • BlueScreen Brothers
Understanding Entra ID Device Join Types (16 min) • Lukas Beran
QR Code Sign-In for Entra ID (Public Preview) (7 min) • Rio Hindle
🔥 Maester
Maester Framework Continues to Prosper • Tony Redmond
Now you can use your own company standards with Maester custom tests • Clayton Tyger
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