Entra.News #36: This week in Microsoft Entra
What an exciting week with new conditional access features, a new VS Code plugin for Entra External ID, Entra ID features in Security copilot and more!!
👋 Hi, Merill here with this week’s round up of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
What an exciting week with new conditional access features, a new VS Code plugin for Entra External ID, Entra ID features in Security copilot and more.
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 Generally Available
General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL • Microsoft Azure
🔥 Public Preview
Microsoft Entra adds identity skills to Copilot for Security • Sarah Scott
The dynamic duo for your data security – Adaptive Protection integration with Conditional Access • Erin Miyake
Conditional Access - Insider Risk • Microsoft Learn
Rethinking Security from the Inside Out • Microsoft e-book (registration required)
Convert external users to internal users • Microsoft Learn
Introducing the new Microsoft Entra External ID extension for VS Code • Preeti Rastogi
Power Platform - Entra Privilege Identity Management (PIM) available in public preview - sign up
📖 Read
Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024, with new capabilities • Vasu Jakkal
Security for AI: How to Secure and govern AI usage • Neta Haiby
Discover, protect, and govern AI usage with Microsoft Security • Nora Zhang
📺 Watch
Insider Risk in Conditional Access | Microsoft Entra + Microsoft Purview Adaptive Protection (8 min) • Microsoft Mechanics
Microsoft Copilot for Security: AI-Powered Security for All (1 min) • Microsoft Security
Apple Device Auth | Goodbye Keychain, Hello Secure Enclave (33 min) • Olga Dalton, Brian Melton-Grace, Michael Epping
Microsoft’s Identity and Entra Roadmap for 2024 (38 min) • Rohit Gulati
Verified Global Onboarding & Helpdesk Powered by Entra Verified ID (62 min) • Grace Picking, Christer Ljung, Rohit Gulati
Implementing Passwordless Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID for SMB - Part 1 (52 min) • Ward van Besien, Jai Mahraj, Gireesh PK
Implementing Passwordless Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID for SMB - Part 2 (61 min) • Ward van Besien, Jai Mahraj, Gireesh PK
🗣️ Message Center
12 Mar - MC734236 - Power Platform - Entra Privilege Identity Management (PIM) available in public preview
From the community…
☀️ Learn
👩✈️ Security Copilot
Microsoft Copilot for Security Pricing • Joe Stocker
Securing Microsoft Copilot with Zero Trust: A Comprehensive Guide for Enhan • Shaun H
💳 Verified ID
Onboarding with a TAP using Entra Verified ID • Rory Braybrook
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Getting started with Logic Apps: Part 5 - Secure MS Graph queries with a user-assigned managed identity • Damien Van Robaeys
Users Can No Longer Create a Free Microsoft E5 Developer Tenant • Office 365 Reports
Microsoft 365 Developer Program – Attention to all Microsoft 365 developers and learners! – Blog - Sonne´s Cloud • Michael Morten Sonne
Azure Deployment Scripts: Assuming User-Assigned Managed Identities • Karl Fosaaen
How to get all Graph PowerShell SDK modules required to run selected code using PowerShell • Ondrej Sebela
🚦 Conditional Access
Entra ID – You can now have a better change tracking experience for Conditional Access policies (preview) • Benoit Hamet
🔐 Credential Management
🖥️ Devices
The Workspace ONE Admin’s Guide to Microsoft Intune Part 1 • Jon Towles
Finding Devices Used for Multifactor Authentication • Tony Redmond
🥷 Security
Azure Authorization – Azure RBAC Basics • Matt Felton
♻️ Sync
The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync • Muthupandi MK
How to fix Microsoft Entra Connect Sync server crash • Ali Tajran
⚒️ Toolkit
M365-Consultant/EntraID-CA-NamedIP • Dominik
How to a Find Microsoft 365 Tenant ID Without Tenant Access • Daniel Bradley
🎙️ Podcasts
The one with SAP GUI MFA mit Entra ID (Martin Raepple & Christan Cohrs) | SAP on Azure Video (50 min) • SAP on Azure
WPNinjasNL Podcast - Deep dive into (virtual) PassKey and how this can be used! (24 min) • Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands
[DUTCH] WPNinjasNL Podcast: Digital Market Act (DMA) en Single Sign On (SSO) (18 min) • Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands
📺 Watch
Fix Conditional Access Issues during Intune Enrollment (8 min) • Get Rubix
Windows 365 Architecture 2: AADJ + BYO Azure VNET [Windows 365 Masterclass Series] (16 min) • Susanth Sutheesh
Request Access to Windows 365 Cloud PCs with Entra Access Packages (16 min) • Get Rubix
Authenticating Azure Deployments in GitHub Actions with Microsoft Entra ID Workload Identities 💪 (13 min) • Will Velida
Delivering Seamless User Provisioning and JML with Microsoft Entra (24 min) • Kocho
Conditional Access: Insider Risk (Public Preview) (12 min) • Rio Hindle
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
idPowerToys
New url for idPowerToys and Entra mind map! → idPowerToys.merill.net
Message Center Archive
Check it out at mc.merill.net
Cloud only accounts for privileged roles
Learn more about using cloud only accounts for privileged roles → Protecting Microsoft 365 from on-premises attacks
Read this post for details → Stay ahead of the game with the latest updates to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program
🪃 Acknowledgement of Country
Entra.News is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay my respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.