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April 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates โข James Casey
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425 Show | Global Secure Access Proof-of-Concept Deep Dive โข Luis Flores
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From the communityโฆ
๐ Most popular posts from last week
๐ฅUsing Conditional Access to Combat Token Theft โข Tony Redmond
๐ฅHow FIDO2 works, a technical deep dive โข Michael Waterman
๐ฅ12 Common Microsoft Entra ID Issues & Fixes for Admins โข AIMA
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โ๏ธ ID Protection
Managing User and Sign-in Risk for Passwordless Accounts with Microsoft Entra ID Protection โข Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
๐ฎโโ๏ธ ID Governance
Managing Restricted Groups with Access Packages โข Nathan McNulty
Access Reviews: Spring Cleaning for Your Entra Groups โข Dustin Gullett
๐ Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Entra Private Access and the future of the Entra App Proxy โข Chris Brumm
Quick Look at Entra ID Global Secure Access โ Private Access โข Mohammed Sajid
๐ฆ Apps
Improving The Model Context Protocol Authorization Spec - One RFC At A Time โข Den Delimarsky
How to find non-privileged applications owners in Microsoft Entra โข Daniel Bradley
Identifying Service principal-less authentication โข Rakhesh Sasidharan
Entra Service Principal mind map โข Kevin Kisoka
๐ Authentication
MFA Beyond Push Notifications โข Brian Baldock
๐ค DevOps & PowerShell
Using an MCP agent to query Entra with natural language. โข John Schnobrich
Working with custom attributes via the Graph SDK for PowerShell and the Entra module โข Vasil Michev
Practical Graph: Running Audit Log Searches with the AuditLog Query API โข Andy Schneider
Set-MgUserLicense: One or more parameters of the operation โassignLicenseโ are missing. โข Kavya
Use the Azure Arc Managed Identity with Azure PowerShell โข Thomas Maurer
๐ฆ Conditional Access
๐ฅ๏ธ Devices
On-premises printing with cloud native devices โข Gerry Hampson
The Continue to Sign in Prompt That breaks the SSO โข Rudy Ooms
Passwordless RDP Authentication for On-Prem Servers with Smart Cards (FIDO2 Security Key) โข Farooque
This Is Not Just Another LAPS PostโฆPromise! โข Dustin Gullett
๐๏ธ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
Practical Protection: Auditing Guest Access in your Microsoft 365 Tenant โข Andy Schneider
๐ฅท Security
How to Configure an Emergency Access App in Entra ID โข Lokesh
Exploring Publicly Accessible Entra ID Tenant and User data โข Mateusz Jendza
โป๏ธ Sync
Deploying Microsoft Entra Self-Service Password Reset in a Hybrid Environment with PowerShell โข Mecken Swyter
How to Install & Configure Entra Cloud Sync โข Rudy Mens
Entra Connect vs Cloud Sync โ What is the Difference? โข Rudy Mens
๐ Tenant Configuration
Are Microsoft E5 Licensing Add-Ons a Good Deal? โข Tony Redmond
Comprehensive Guide to Configuring Advanced Auditing โข Nathan McNulty
How to Change onmicrosoft.com Domain in Microsoft 365 โข Ali Tajran
Extracting Tenant ID from Azure Subscription ID โข Jay Kerai
๐๏ธ External ID - Customers
Validating the ID and Access JWT signature in Entra External ID โข Rory Braybrook
โ๏ธ Toolkit
M365 License Assignment Report โข Roy Klooster
uniQuk/EntraOATH - PowerShell module for managing hardware OATH tokens in Microsoft Entra ID โข Josh
InvokeโEasyPIMOrchestrator - A comprehensive solution for managing Privileged Identity Management (PIM) assignments across Azure, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), and Groups โข Loรฏc Michel
๐๏ธ Podcasts
Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr โข Ari Schorr, Richard Campbell
Considerations when services are being deprecated - Ctrl+Alt+Azure โข Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine
๐บ Watch
Microsoft Entra MADE EASY For Beginners! (53 min) โข Jonathan Edwards
Is macOS Platform SSO any good yet? (19 min) โข Dean Ellerby
Device Code Login Phishing Presentation Attack, Detect, Mitigate (30 min) โข Ippsec
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Maester results on Azure Web App! โข Sebastian Claesson
Maester - Azure DevOps optimizations โข Jiลรญ Vaculik
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cmd.ms โ the Microsoft Cloud command line! โข Brian Veldman
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