Entra 🆔 News #98 → This week in Microsoft Entra

Learn about Entra Agent ID, single sign-on to Linux and more!

👋 Hello! Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest Microsoft Entra news from around the globe 🌍.

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Also, tune into this week’s Entra Chat podcast where we're joined by Sapir Federovsky from CrowdStrike. She’ll be sharing her valuable insights on tackling Entra ID threats, the power of community and sign-in logs, and her inspiring journey as an early-career woman in tech.

Unmasking Entra ID Threats: A CrowdStrike Researcher's Early Career Insights with Sapir Federovsky

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

🔥 Public Preview

• Microsoft extends Zero Trust to secure the agentic workforce • Vasu Jakkal

• Announcing Microsoft Entra Agent ID: Secure and manage your AI agents • Alex Simons

• What is Microsoft Single Sign-on to Linux? • Microsoft Learn

📺 Watch

• Secure onboarding and access with the Microsoft Entra Suite • Sri Ponnada

• Replace your Legacy VPN with an Identity Centric ZTNA Solution • Kamran Tabish, Abdi Saeedabadi

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From the community…

🚀 Most popular posts from last week

• 🥇Assume Breach: Securing MFA Registration in Entra ID • Matej Klemenčič

• 🥈How to manage admin accounts with Entra ID Governance – Part 2 • Pim Jacobs

• 🥉Tired of Proxy Problems? Meet Edge for Business Protection • Dustin Gullett

Using AI and MCP to test and create Graph filters

☀️ Learn

👩‍✈️ AI & Copilot

• 5 Things To Know On Microsoft Entra Agent ID • Kyle Alspach

🧰 Workload ID

• TIL: You can’t get access tokens to more than one resource in a single call • Rakhesh Sasidharan

👮‍♂️ ID Governance

• Unlocking the Power of employeeHireDate in Entra ID Dynamic Groups • Jan Bakker

• New admin role in Microsoft Entra ID: Teams Reader • Tobias Asböck

🔑 Authentication

• The difference between Managed and Federated Domain • Andres Bohren

🤖 DevOps & PowerShell

• Using the estimateAccess method to determine permissions on Entra objects • Vasil Michev

🚦 Conditional Access

• Microsoft Graph-Based Conditional Access What If Tool • Thiraviam

• Export Conditional Access Policy Files With CA Policy Copier • Daniel Bradley

🔐 Credential Management

• Migrating Entra Password Protection Proxy • Brian Reid

🖥️ Devices

• Local admin segmentation with Entra and Intune • Joël Prins

📈 Reporting and Insights

• Entra ID Admin Roles Report • Roy Klooster

🥷 Security

• Introducing EntraFalcon – A Tool to Enumerate Entra ID Objects and Assignments • Christian Feuchter

• Mini quest with Sync API • Sapir Federovsky

• Removing Cloud Service Providers (CSP) In Entra/M365 • Brian Reid

♻️ Sync

• Step-by-Step Identity Migration Between Hybrid Entra ID Tenants in a Merger Scenario • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai

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⚒️ Toolkit

• Conditional Access Validator (preview) • Jasper Baes

• DanielBradley1/CAPolicyCopier - CA Policy Copier Chrome extension • Daniel Bradley

• dwarfered/react-spa-msal-entra-id-quickstart - Quickstart React single-page application (SPA) using MSAL with Microsoft Entra ID + Graph • Chris Dymond

• KQL-threat-hunting-queries/Sentinel/identities-set-to-password-never-expires-with-blast-radius-value-or-tagged-as-sensitive · cyb3rmik3 • Michalis Michalos

• Operational-groups - Updated • Nathan McNulty

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📺 Watch

• Defeat Deep Fakes and Imposters with Verified ID and Face Check • John Savill

• Learn how Entra ID’s Break Glass Accounts REALLY Work in 10mins • Andy Malone

• How to require compliant devices for application access in Microsoft Entra ID • Cybersecurity World

• Modernizing Identity Management for SAP with Microsoft Entra ID • Joe Marcum, Bryan Jordan, Sara Donnellan

• Setting up SAML SSO with Azure Entra ID and Fortigate SSLVPN • P4cketSniff3r

• Token Theft Deep Dive Part 1: Incident Response • Nick Ross

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