Entra.News #18: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra

Automatic CA policies rollout, Authenticator security updates, Trusted certificate authorities and more from the community

👋 Greetings, this is Merill bringing you the eighteenth issue of entra.news, where you can catch up with all the recent news from Microsoft Entra.

Have fun!

PS. Watch out for heaps of Microsoft Entra news coming out of Microsoft Ignite next week.

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⚡️ Microsoft

✅ Generally Available

Automatic Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra streamline identity protection • Alex Weinert

Emphasizing Security by Default with Advanced Microsoft Authenticator Features • Alex Weinert

🔥 Public Preview

Introducing Trusted Certificate Authorities in App management policy • Saurabh Madan

User insights dashboard (Public Preview) • Adam Matthews

📖 Read

Get insights on identity and network access solutions at Microsoft Ignite, Nov 15-17 2023 • Irina Nechaeva

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management operations reference • Tyler Chan

Blazor WebAssembly and Server: Implementing AAD OAuth 2 Delegated Flow with MSAL for Azure DevOps • Jin Lee

📺 Watch

The 425Show: What's New in Microsoft Entra Identity & Security - Nov 2023 (1 hour) • Grace Picking, Jorge Lopez

macOS management with Microsoft Intune | Deployment, single sign-on, settings, apps & DDM (11 min) • Microsoft Mechanics

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From the community…

☀️ Read

👮‍♂️ ID Governance

Empowering user workflow with Entra ID Lifecycle Workflow (LCW) • Håvard Løkensgard

🌐 Global Secure Access

RDP Private Resources using Microsoft Entra Private Access - Quick Access • Elie Karkafy

Microsoft Entra Private Access: secure access to internal resources and cloud services without VPN • Oliver MÜller

💠 External ID

Microsoft Entra - The Future of Customer Identity and Access Management • Daniel Krzyczkowski

🧰 Workload ID

How do Federated credentials in GitHub Actions actually work • Stephan van Rooij

🚦 Conditional Access

Scoping conditional access policies to "tagged" applications • Vasil Michev

Microsoft Entra ID Continuous access evaluation and how it works! • Tom Wechsler

Customise or Disable Microsoft Managed Conditional Access Policies • Daniel Bradley

Require MFA for Microsoft 365 Admin Portals with Conditional Access • O365Reports

🔐 Credential Management

Manage Microsoft 365 Passwords from the Security Info Page • O365Reports

🔑 Authentication

Suppress Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources • Sudha

🤖 Automation & DevOps

CI / CD Deployment of Conditional Access Policies for a Zero Trust Architecture Framework using Terraform and GitHub Actions • Suryendu Bhattacharyya

How to Force a Password Change in Microsoft 365 Without Password Reset • Daniel Bradley

Convert Entra ID User between Synced and Cloud Only with Microsoft Graph • Andres Bohren

Send Emails with Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell • Windows OS Hub

Export Microsoft 365 users password report • O365Info

📦 Apps

Enable OIDC Authentication in CyberArk PVWA with Microsoft Entra ID • Prudhvi Keertipati

🖥️ Devices

BYOD – Part 1 – The Love-Hate Relationship • Shehan Perera

🥷 Security

Detect threats using Microsoft Graph activity logs - Part 2 • Fabian Bader

Have you heard of workload identity access token replay? • Nicola Suter

Enumerating Entra ID Anonymously • Trimarc Security

The Triforce of Initial Access • Melvin Langvik (TrustedSec)

Microsoft 365 Audit adds support for administrative unit scoping • Vasil Michev

⚒️ Toolkit

IntuneCD - Entra Backup and Restore • Tobias Almén

🎙️ Podcasts

The PowerShell Podcast - Entra Insights and Merill Fernando’s Toolbox: Powering the Community • Jordan Hammond, Andrew Pla, Merill Fernando

📺 Watch

Microsoft Managed Policies (Conditional Access) (8 Mins) • RioCloudSync

What's NEW in Microsoft Conditional Access (16 min) • Andy Malone

B2B vs multi-tenant applications in Microsoft Entra ID (38 Mins) • Tech Mind Factory

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👨🏽‍💻 Merill’s corner

→ Complete list of Microsoft Entra Sessions @ Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft Entra sessions @ Microsoft Ignite

→ Graph X-Ray

Small notes like this really make my day!

For those who don't know Graph X-Ray is a Chrome extension that lets you view the PowerShell commands for actions you take in Microsoft admin portals like Intune and Entra.

Check it out at graphxray.merill.net

Read more at Graph X-Ray Tool Helps PowerShell Developers Master the Graph • Tony Redmond

→ Passkeys Device Support Matrix

Did you know the passkeys.dev site has a helpful matrix of passkey support across platforms and browsers? Thank you Tim Cappalli and the rest of the team that maintain this.

→ Microsoft managed conditional access policies auto-rollout

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