Entra.News #24: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra
Happy holidays folks! The Christmas 🎁 edition is here...
👋 Greetings. It’s Christmas eve 🎄🎅 over here in sunny Australia ☀️🏖️.
The Entra newsletter elves 🧝 have been busy getting this Christmas edition out the door. So enjoy the latest round up from around the globe 🌏.
📢 PS Keep an eye out for next week’s special year-end edition of Entra News.
⚡️ Microsoft
🔥 Public Preview
Upcoming changes to Windows Single Sign-On • Adam Steenwyk
🏁 Private Preview
Introducing trust direction options for Microsoft Entra Domain Services • Monicah Wambugu
📖 Read
December 2023: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates • Adam Matthews
From the community…
🗞️ Read
👮♂️ ID Governance
Proper Entra ID Application Governance – Phase 1 • Thomas Stensitzki
Manage Microsoft 365 User Role Changes with Workflows Entra • Sudha
Privileged Identity Management for Groups in Microsoft Entra • Shanchana
Using Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (JIT) • Faris Malaeb
🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)
Microsoft Entra Internet Access — hands-on • Niklas Tinner
Step-by-Step – Evaluate Microsoft Entra Private Access • Charbel Nemnom
How to Configure Web Content Filtering with Global Secure Acess • Daniel Bradley
📦 Apps
Customize M365 Profile Card • Andres Borhren
👥 Group Management
Block Welcome Messages for New Microsoft 365 Group Members • Tony Redmond
Get ready for group writeback depreciation • Benoit Hamet
Optimizing Dynamic Group Membership Evaluation • Gowdhaman K
🤖 Automation & DevOps
Entra ID Quota Limit – Learn to manage your usage to avoid maxing it out and extend it before it’s too late • Michael Morten Sonne
Attribute-Based Access Control For Azure Blob Storage • Charbel Nemnom
💠 External ID
Update Sponsor of a guest user • Daniel Bradley
📈 Reporting and Insights
Report Entra ID Admin Consent Requests with PowerShell • Tony Redmond
🥷 Security
Making Global Administrators safer • Dennis Johansson
♻️ Sync
New Entra ID Connect version released with major updates • Benoit Hamet
🧰 Workload ID
Microsoft Entra Workload ID - Advanced Detections and Enrichment in Microsoft Sentinel • Thomas Naunheim
Workload Identity Federation for Azure Pipelines • Manish Periwal
📺 Watch
Keynote | Hacking the Cloud Like an APT - SANS Offensive Operations (42 min) • Lina Lau
Ab)using the Microsoft Identity Platform: ExploringAzure AD Token Caching - SANS Offensive Operations (28 min) • Ruben Boonen
Deep Dive on Microsoft Entra Internet Access (48 min) • John Savill’s Technical Training
Demo: Implement & Configure Multiple Authentication Providers with Azure App Service Security (5 min) • Benjamin Day
Access to on-premises resources from an Entra joined device - It just works! (3 min) • Peter Klapwijk - In The Cloud 247
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
→ Attn Windows & M365 Admins in Europe: New SSO prompt rolling out in Jan 2024
→ Personal Google accounts spoofing company email. Should Microsoft admins be worried?
→ Need to roll out the best single sign on experience for your users?
Here's a handy guide on what you need on each platform to enable SSO with Microsoft Entra.
To learn more about Microsoft Entra single sign on see
→ Plan a single sign on deployment
→ Primary Refresh Tokens
→ Apple Enterprise SSO
→ Enable cross-app SSO on Android using MSAL