👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍
We saw a major Entra Connect Sync release this week. Check out the posts below for all the details.
In a recent poll I conducted, nearly 90% of respondents said they plan to fully decommission Active Directory and transition to Entra ID or make Entra ID their source of truth. This week's Entra Chat podcast explores how our guest Tobias from We Are Era did just that, completely eliminating their on-premises AD footprint.
Even if you're not ready to go fully cloud-native, the podcast offers valuable insights into planning a future with minimal reliance on Active Directory.
Enjoy!
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🏆 General Availability
Track and investigate identity activities with linkable identifiers in Microsoft Entra • Microsoft Learn
🔥 Public Preview
Authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID using Application Identity • Microsoft Learn
TLS Inspection now in Microsoft Entra Internet Access • Ashish Jain
📖 Read
The future of AI agents—and why OAuth must evolve • Alex Simons
Defending against evolving identity attack techniques • Igor Sakhnov
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
🥇Local admin segmentation with Entra and Intune • Joël Prins
🥈5 Things To Know On Microsoft Entra Agent ID • Kyle Alspach
🥉Introducing EntraFalcon – A Tool to Enumerate Entra ID Objects and
Assignments • Christian Feuchter
☀️ Learn
👩✈️ AI & Copilot
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Global Secure Access Unified Monitoring & Logging • Niklas Tinner
📦 Apps
Configure Entra ID Authentication for Azure Web Apps • Brian Veldman
🔑 Authentication
From Legacy to Modern: A Complete Guide to Entra ID MFA & SSPR Migration • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
👥 User & Group Management
How to List Hidden Group Memberships with the Graph • Tony Redmond
Copy Group Membership from One User to Another in Microsoft Entra ID • Ali Tajran
How to Remove Microsoft 365 Licenses with PowerShell • Ali Tajran
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
🔐 Credential Management
Locking down your FIDO2 requirements • Per-Torben Sørensen
🖥️ Devices
APv2 + HAADJ: Sure, why not • Michael Niehaus
Fix Entra ID device join – We can’t connect to the URL for your organization’s MDM terms of use • Rudy Mens
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 05: Efficient Identity Management for External Users with Microsoft Entra • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
Time to Spring-Clean Your Stale Guest Accounts • Sandra Saluti
📈 Reporting and Insights
Entra ID groups inspector: a Log Analytics dashboard for tracking changes to groups • Damien Van Robaeys
🥷 Security
Abusing Delegated Permissions via Easy Auth • Cody Burkard
♻️ Sync
How to Tell if Entra Connect is Using Application-Based Authentication • Daniel Bradley
Entra Connect – Secure App & Certificate-Based Authentication is here! Plus: I built you a better way to manage it • Michael Morten Sonne
Modern Auth for Entra Connect is now available • Rudy Mens
How to Download Microsoft Entra Connect • Ali Tajran
Modernizing Entra Connect Authentication • Harri Jaakkonen
Entra ID Connect – New major version for Entra ID Connect (2.5.3.0) • Benoit Hamet
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Azure AD B2C • Rory Braybrook
⚒️ Toolkit
Uninstall-Graph - PowerShell module to uninstall and remove all the Microsoft Graph modules from your system • Merill Fernando
🎙️ Podcasts
The Zero Trust Zone - Decentralized Identities • Michael Van Horenbeeck, Rohit Gulati
📺 Watch
TLS Inspection in Microsoft Entra Internet Access Deep Dive • John Savill
Add (Entra ID) Authentication to your Declarative Agent and API Plugin • Bob German
How to block unknown platforms in Microsoft Entra ID • Lukas Beran
MSAL Authentication: Auth ain't hard (But it isn't easy either) • Ben Reader
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