Entra.News #28: This week in Microsoft Entra

Learn about Microsoft Entra's top 50 features of 2023, machine identity and more.

👋 Hi, Merill here with this week’s round up of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

📖 Read

• Microsoft Entra’s Top 50 Features of 2023 • Shobhit Sahay

• Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard • MSRC

• The building blocks of machine identity • Pieter Kasselman

• Visualize Entra Sign-in Logs using an Interactive Map • Timur Engin

• New Microsoft Incident Response guides help security teams analyze suspicious activity • Microsoft Incident Response

📺 Watch

• Unified insights from Microsoft Entra Permissions Management | Defender for Cloud in the Field #43 (14 min) • Microsoft Security

• Microsoft Entra user and admin access controls to prepare for Copilot (10 min) • Microsoft Mechanics

• Control who can access resources, under what conditions, and with what level of access. (1 min) • Microsoft Mechanics

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From the community…

🗞️ Read

• Evaluating Entra ID vs. Okta SSO Part 2: Advanced Features • Jon Towles

🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)

• How to Set Up Microsoft Entra Internet Access? • AdminDroid

• ZTNA, Secure Service Edge and the future way of remote access • Marius Sandbu

👥 Group Management

• Dynamic Group Rule Builder Loses Support for Contains • Tony Redmond

🤖 Automation & DevOps

• Keep Your Dynamic Groups Compliant by Microsoft Graph Change Notifications and Azure Event Grid • Suryendu Bhattacharyya

• Report all Application Owners in Microsoft Entra with PowerShell • Daniel Bradley

• Assign Microsoft 365 Licenses to Users with MS Graph PowerShell • Kavya

• How to Report App Credential Expiration with PowerShell • Tony Redmond

• Entra ID – Stale Application Analysis with PowerShell • Michael Morten Sonne

• Reporting on Entra ID application registrations • Vasil Michev

• Export Entra ID app registrations Certificates and Secrets expiry report • Ali Tarjan

🚦 Conditional Access

• Hunting for report-only (Microsoft-managed) Conditional Access impacts • Daniel Kovacs

• Dynamically Exclude New Hires from Conditional Access Policies for Registering MFA, Temporarily • Anton Willoughby

🖥️ Devices

• Convenience PIN policy enables Windows Hello for Business enrollment in Windows Security • Daniel Kovacs

• Understanding Entra ID Device Join Types • Lukas Beran

🥷 Security

• Exfiltrating NTHashes by abusing Microsoft Entra Domain Services • Nestori Syynimaa

• Exploring Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) in Microsoft's Security Landscape • Sameh Younis

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⚒️ Toolkit

• The clarion call tells you if someone is logging into an AitM proxy that is proxying your M365 login page • HuskyHacks

• PowerShell script - List all enterprise apps expiring secret • Tom Wechsler

• Azure Access Permissions • Carsten Sandker

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📺 Watch

• Deep Dive on Microsoft Entra Private Access (1 hour) • John Savill's Technical Training

• Azure Active Directory B2C or Microsoft Entra External ID - how to choose? (43 min) • Formula5

• Microsoft Entra: The Inside Story - With Merill Fernando • Peter Rising, Merill Fernando

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