Entra.News #23: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra
Entra.News #23: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra
There's a new version of Entra Connect + heaps of new public previews + more from the community...
👋 Greetings, this is Merill bringing you the twenty third issue of entra.news. Catch up on the latest Microsoft Entra news from around the globe.
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
✅ Generally Available
Microsoft Entra Connect - Version 2.3.2.0 - 12 Dec
Application scaling with Windows Accessibility font size setting has been added.
Group Writeback V2 can no longer be enabled as the feature is being decommissioned. Please see the notice in this article about group writeback.
Advancing Cybersecurity: The Latest enhancement in Phishing-Resistant Authentication • Alex Weinert
Microsoft Authenticator is FIPS 140-3 compliant on all platforms • Microsoft Learn
FIDO2 support for iOS (public preview available now) and macOS (early next year) applications • Microsoft Learn
Enhancements to Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication • Alex Weinert
CBA username bindings • Microsoft Learn
CBA Authentication policy rules • Microsoft Learn
CBA Affinity Binding • Microsoft Learn
CBA as second factor (Public Preview) • Microsoft Learn
CBA as Most Recently Used (MRU) • Microsoft Learn
🔥 Public Preview
Introducing New Features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management • Joseph Dadzie
Permissions Management app in the ServiceNow app store (Generally Available)
Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Public Preview)
Okta and AWS IAM Identity Center support (Public Preview)
Permissions Analytic Report (Public Preview)
New APIs
Microsoft Entra Internet Access • Microsoft Learn
Configurable redemption for B2B collaboration • Microsoft Learn
SAML/WS-Fed federation (Direct federation) for Azure AD verified domains (Preview)
Prevent your B2B users from redeeming an invite using Microsoft accounts (Preview)
Microsoft Entra Health - Scenario monitoring (preview) • Microsoft Learn
📖 Read
⛑️ ID Protection
Strengthening identity protection in the face of highly sophisticated attacks • Alex Weinert
🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)
Microsoft Security Service Edge Solution Deployment Guide • Microsoft Learn
🥷 Security
Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks • Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Investigating malicious OAuth applications using the Unified Audit Log • Matthew Zorich
New Microsoft Incident Response team guide shares best practices for security teams and leaders • Microsoft Incident Response
👮♂️ ID Governance
Elevating User Management with Age Group and Consent Provided Fields in Microsoft Entra • Jethro Seghers
📺 Watch
Boosting Identity Protection with MFA (1 min) • Microsoft Security
Microsoft Security Copilot Demos from Microsoft Ignite 2023 • Rod Trent
Passwordless SSO for Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365 Deep Dive (1 hr) • The Microsoft 425Show • Sandeep Deo, David Belanger, Grace Picking
Jamf and Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access (1 hr) • Sean Rabbitt, Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski
From the community…
🗞️ Read
🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)
GSA: Microsoft Entra Internet Access overview • Robert Przybylski
What is this Microsoft SSE solution that everyone is talking about? • Kenneth van Surksum
👮♂️ ID Governance
How to Create and Manage Access Reviews for Group Owners • Daniel Bradley
Automate Microsoft 365 User Onboarding Using Lifecycle Workflows • Admin Droid
Quickly Automate Microsoft 365 Offboarding with Lifecycle Workflows • Admin Droid
How Microsoft Entra ID Governance Helps You Manage Your Guest Accounts • Julian Rasmussen
📦 Apps
Entra ID Improves Registered App Security • Tony Redmond
Threat Actors Increase Misuse of OAuth Applications • Tony Redmond
🔑 Authentication
Ushering in a Passwordless Era: Why Microsoft Passkeys are the Future of Secure Logins • Joe Stocker
🤖 Automation & DevOps
The Microsoft Graph Command-Line Interface (CLI) • Brad Wyatt
Automated Alerts on Azure (Entra ID) Application Secret Expirations • Brad Wyatt
Syncing Global Address List (GAL) to personal contacts and between Office 365 tenants with PowerShell • Przemyslaw Klys
Backing up and Restoring Entra ID objects and their attributes in 2023 • Sander Berkouwer
Audit Microsoft 365 Admin Activity using PowerShell Script • Office 365 Reports
Script to review and remove service principal credentials • Vasil Michev
💠 External ID
Secure Guest Sharing in Microsoft 365: A Comprehensive Guide • Office 365 Reports
🥷 Security
Microsoft’s AI Strategy for Security Depends on Data • Tony Redmond
How to manage break-glass accounts in Microsoft Entra ID • Lukas Beran
🧰 Workload ID
Entra Workload Identities – Trusted Certificate Authorities (public preview) • Daniel Kovacs
⚒️ Toolkit
PIMGraph.ps1: This script activates eligible Privileged Identity Management (PIM) roles for the current user using Microsoft Graph API • Julian Rasmussen
📺 Watch
Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365 (SSO using Entra ID) (13 min) • RioCloudSync
Application Deployment Options for AVD and W365 & MAM for Windows (1hr 17min) • CloudManagement.Community
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
→ Entra Internet Access - Public Preview
→ New Microsoft Incident Response team guide shares best practices for security teams and leaders
→ Microsoft Entra SSE Deployment Guide
