Entra 🆔 News #89 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Entra Connect Sync hardening change 🔄🛡️💪, Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers 🤖🧠✨, GA of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Entra External ID 🔑🌐 and more! 🔥
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
This week's highlights:
Released the second episode of our Entra.Chat podcast featuring Kuba Gretzky, creator of the popular Evilginx phishing toolkit for red teamers.
I launched Lokka.dev – a free and open source MCP server for Microsoft Graph. Check it out! Will there be a little less PowerShell in our life with tools like this?
⚠️ Important Reminder: Entra Connect Sync must be upgraded to the versions listed below before April 7. Without this upgrade, you won't be able to use connect sync wizard capabilities.
Note: Your sync service will continue running as usual, and changes will still sync to Entra
See Hardening update to Microsoft Entra Connect Sync from April 7, 2025
Catch the latest Entra.Chat podcast featuring Kuba Gretzky 👇
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⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
Announcing the General Availability of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID • Bora Ozbayburtlu
Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers • Zachary-Cavanell
📺 Watch
A Copilot designed for admins - Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers (9 min) • Microsoft Mechanics
Find users with specific attributes using a simple prompt. Save time on common admin tasks. (1 min) • Microsoft Mechanics
Securing B2B Collaboration with Microsoft Entra ID (48 min) • Jef Bley
Managing devices w/Intune & implementing conditional access | Protect tenants & isolate prod systems (18 min) • Clay Taylor, Shehzad Khoja, Michael Howard, Sarah Young
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Entra tenant policy to forbid long-lived secrets for Applications and Service Principals • Peter Lorenzen
Entra: Integrate Passkey registration with your Conditional Access Framework • Will Francillette
You shall not pass(key)! • Jan Bakker
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Controlling Access to Microsoft 365 for Entra ID Apps • Tony Redmond
📦 Apps
Migrating from OKTA to Microsoft Entra can pay for the entire XDR Suite • Joe Stocker
From the field: Three gotchas when migrating applications from AD FS to Entra • Sander Berkouwer
🔑 Authentication
Essential Eight Compliance Assistant - A Free GPT that Makes Your Solution Architecture Assessment Easy! • Hassan Syed
How to authenticate with Windows Hello for Business or FIDO security key in RDP session ? • Morten Knudsen
Mandatory MFA for Admins and more (Entra, Intune, Azure) • Stefan Wey
MS MFA Mandate : Essential Insights and Strategies • Ankit Gupta
🤖 Dev & DevOps
Entra or Microsoft Graph PowerShell • Stefan Wey
Dynamics 365 F&O IAM PowerShell Module • Darren Robinson
Acquiring Tokens For Non-Graph APIs In Azure Functions • Den Delimarsky
🚦 Conditional Access
Entra ID – Get conditional access policy impact • Benoit Hamet
🔐 Credential Management
Disabling Removable Storage in Group Policy Does Not Affect FIDO2 Keys • Dr. Emin Huseynov
EntraFIDOFinder now with over 50 new keys! • Clayton Tyger
Entra Password Protection Smarter Security, Fewer Pop-Tarts • Dustin Gullett
🖥️ Devices
Using a QR code to easily sign in to apps on shared Android devices • Peter van der Woude
How to enable QR Code Authentication Method in Microsoft 365 • Lokesh
Extending Cloud Native PC Wireless Authentication to Cloud RADIUS • Jon Towles
📈 Reporting and Insights
Create a free Enterprise App Permissions report in Microsoft Entra • Daniel Bradley
Future-Proofing Microsoft Entra Logs : Practical Azure Storage • Ankit Gupta
🥷 Security
Are Attackers "Passing Through" Your Azure App Proxy? • Scott White
Mitigating AiTM Token Theft in 2025: Why It’s Time to Adopt Passkeys • Joe Stocker
Break the glass – Not your organization! • Per-Torben Sørensen
Protecting Actions in Entra ID • Brian Reid
Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 03: Authorization Best Practices from Zero Trust to Complete Access Control • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
♻️ Sync
Entra ID – Ensure you are running at least a specific version of Entra ID Connect before April 7 • Benoit Hamet
MSOL decommisioning and emergency Entra ID federated domain trust repair • Martin Rublik
⚒️ Toolkit
AllwaysHyPe/graph-automation - Script to automate user photo updates in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) by finding matching photos in a local directory • Hailey Phillips
Azure Arc and Azure Automation • Hailey Phillips
🎙️ Podcasts
WPNinjasNL Podcast: Passkeys & Entra ID Authentication – The Future of Secure Access (33 min) • Frans Oudendorp, Peter Daalmans, Jan Bakker, Sander Berkouwer
📺 Watch
Smart Lockouts in Microsoft Entra ID | Cybersecurity World (10 min) • Cybersecurity World
Application Inventory Management | Use these templates (21 min) • Nick Ross
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