👋 Hi everyone, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s Microsoft Entra news roundup from around the globe 🌍.
This week, Microsoft announced the end of sale for Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, with the product being discontinued on October 1, 2025.
There's an exciting update to the sign-in logs: ‘linkable identifiers’. This will give you better visibility to track tokens across sessions and logs from Exchange and Graph.
Plus, the latest episode of the Entra Chat podcast is out! If you've tuned in and enjoyed our conversations, we'd love it if you could rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Every rating helps! 🙏
Enjoy.
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⚡️ Microsoft
🔥 Public Preview
Track and investigate identity activities with linkable identifiers in Microsoft Entra • Microsoft Learn
📖 Read
🔻 Important change announcement: Microsoft Entra Permissions Management end of sale and retirement • Joseph Dadzie
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – March 2025 • Shobhit Sahay
Replace your legacy VPN with an identity-centric ZTNA • Ashish Jain
📺 Watch
425 Show | Is Global Secure Access Right for You? (38 min) • Ciara Gallagher, Janice Ricketts
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇 The Ultimate Microsoft 365 Upgrade You Didn’t Know You Already Paid For! (But Wait, There’s More!) • Dustin Gullett
🥈 Using KQL to Detect Gaps in your Conditional Access Strategy • Dylan Tenebruso
🥉 A Comprehensive Overview of an SSO Implementation • Mateusz Jendza
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☀️ Learn
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Android • Peter van der Woude
📦 Apps
🔑 Authentication
How FIDO2 works, a technical deep dive • Michael Waterman
Passwordless Authentication with FIDO2 Security Key for Remote Desktop Connection • Farooque
Use QR Code Authentication for secure and lightweight logins • Per-Torben Sørensen
Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 04: Passwords Unlocked – Mastering Self-Service Password Reset and Password Protection • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
👥 User & Group Management
Schedule the removal of unwanted members from an Entra ID group with Azure Automation • Damien Van Robaeys
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Configure Microsoft 365 Group settings with the GA Graph SDK cmdlets • Vasil Michev
Automating Entra ID App Registration Credential Monitoring: A Complete Solution • Toby G
PSA: Restoring a User via Graph API now requires additional permissions • Rakhesh Sasidharan
Exchange Online and RBAC Graph Permissions • Rakhesh Sasidharan
🚦 Conditional Access
Using Conditional Access to Combat Token Theft • Tony Redmond
Conditional Access for Education • Chris Beattie
Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Entra ID Conditional Access • Tony Redmond
🖥️ Devices
Is Per-User MFA really disabled? Maybe not if its breaking your Entra-Joined W365/AVD Connections • Gannon Novak
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
Guest User Permission Model for Canvas and Model-Driven Apps in Microsoft Power Platform (with Entra ID) • Marcel Broschk
🥷 Security
Entra ID - tokens and cookies - a different perspective. • Lukasz Kozubal
Inside the Attacker's Toolkit: Advanced Phishing Frameworks and Infrastructure •Toby G
♻️ Sync
Important Hardening Update for Microsoft Entra Connect Sync: What You Need to Know • Michele Blum
Microsoft Entra Connect – How to Install & Configure • Rudy Mens
📒 Tenant Configuration
Microsoft Zero Trust Workshop • Brian Veldman
12 Common Microsoft Entra ID Issues & Fixes for Admins • AIMA
🛍️ External ID - Customers
⚒️ Toolkit
QuickPIM a multi-role PIM activation extension for Google Chrome • Daniel Bradley
MgConsoleGuiGraphSearch - Interactive Microsoft Graph search tool using console GUI for various Microsoft 365 objects • Jorge Suarez
🎙️ Podcasts
Enhancing Identity Security in the Cloud (21 min) • Thomas Naunheim
Securing GenAI Applications with Entra: Monitoring and More - Azure Security Podcast • Michael Howard, Gladys Rodriguez, Sharon Chahal
📺 Watch
Making sense of security for Entra Workload Identities • Thomas Naunheim
Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access Updates & Best Practices 2025 (35 min) • Andy Malone
Bootstrapping every device and authenticator with a YubiKey (3 min) • Erik Parkkonen
Seamless Entra Connect Migration: Configure Staging Mode & Move to a New Server (22 min) • Travis Roberts
Top 5 Security Features of Microsoft Entra Suite for Businesses (9 min) • Jonathan Edwards
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