Entra 🆔 News #91 → This week in Microsoft Entra

We have two big news items from Microsoft this week related to Entra 👇

👋 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

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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

• 🔐From Secrets to Federation: A Security-Focused Journey with Azure Apps • Tracy Yu

🔑 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

• Using Azure AD B2C custom policies to implement Profile Edit on Entra External ID • Rory Braybrook

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⚒️ 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

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🎙️ 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

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📺 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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