Entra.News #40: This week in Microsoft Entra
Entra.News #40: This week in Microsoft Entra
More like "last week in Microsoft Entra" 😂
👋 Hi, Merill here with this week’s round up of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
I was at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit in Bellevue this week where I presented a session on Mastering Microsoft Graph PowerShell (video coming soon…).
🔥 Maester
Over the last 6 months, I’ve been working with Fabian Bader and Thomas Naunheim on a new open source project called Maester.
We originally started on this as a way to use PowerShell Pester to create regression tests for your Conditional Access policies using the new Conditional Access What-If API. We soon realized the tests could expanded to cover many more scenarios and Maester was born. Learn all about it at https://maester.dev
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
In this article
🏆 Generally Available
Microsoft Graph activity logs is now generally available • Kristopher Bash
📖 Read
Skilling snack: Windows Entra joined devices • Jason Sandys
April 2024: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates • Identity Developer Blog
Announcing the Upcoming Deprecation of MSAL.NET for Xamarin and UWP • Den Delimarsky
📺 Watch
Microsoft Entra and Copilot for Security | Microsoft Security (11 min) • Gloria Lee
From the community…
💬 → Sharing with permission from Matthew Tisdale 😂
☀️ Learn
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Using native authentication in Entra External ID to sign up a user with email and OTP • Rory Braybrook
👮♂️ ID Governance
Microsoft Entitlement Management – Create an Access Package • Imran Rashid
🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)
🚀 Exciting News! Introducing Global Secure Access - Internet Access Public Preview 🚀 • Anupma Sharma
📦 Apps
How to Federate Google Workspace with Microsoft Entra ID • Muthupandi MK
🔑 Authentication
Use Certificate-Based Authentication in Entra with Cloud PKI • Daniel Bradley
FIDO keys (Token2) • Michele Blum
How to enable Passkeys for the Microsoft Authenticator app • Daniel Bradley
How to enable Microsoft Authenticator passkeys in Entra ID | Cybersecurity • Lukas Beran
Get started with passkeys in Microsoft 365 • Jan Bakker
Passkey Public Preview for Entra ID • Fabian Bader
👥 Group Management
How to manage email addresses for Microsoft 365 Groups • Vasil Michev
Export Microsoft 365 distribution group members to CSV with PowerShell • Ali Tajran
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Automated Microsoft 365 Security Posture Monitoring with Maester • Daniel Bradley
Use Maester to Monitor Microsoft 365 Security Settings • Office 365 Reports
List All Passkeys and AAGUIDs in Microsoft Entra with PowerShell – • Daniel Bradley
Maester: Microsoft Security Test Automation Framework • Tony Redmond
🚦 Conditional Access
🖥️ Devices
Troubleshooting MAM for Windows • Peter Van
📈 Reporting and Insights
🥷 Security
Upgrade Classic Azure Administrator Roles by August 2024 • Tony Redmond
⚒️ Toolkit
evild3ad/Microsoft-Analyzer-Suite - A collection of PowerShell scripts for analyzing data from Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID • Invictus-IR
canix1/PIMSCAN - Tool for creating reports on Entra ID Role Assignments • Robin Granberg
📺 Watch
Trimarc Webcast: 10 Ways To Secure Azure AD / Entra ID (70 min) • Trimarc Security
Configure Blazor WebAssembly with Entra ID (.NET 8) (14 min) • Anjuli Jhakry
Part 2 - Automate employee onboarding with Power Automate (13 min) • CloudManagement.Community
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
🥳 🎉 Folks, Fabian Bader, Thomas Naunheim and I are excited to launch Maester today after working on this over many long nights and weekends!
Maester is an open source framework to help you stay on top of your Microsoft tenant's security configuration.
Starting today you can write automated regressions tests for your Conditional Access policies using the awesome new Microsoft Entra Conditional Access What If API!
To help you get started we include over 60+ tests out of the box with more being added.
Our initial focus has been on Entra and we look forward to have more collaborators joining us to expand the out of the box tests to other products.
Try it out and let us know your thoughts.
All the details over at maester.dev
Many thanks to your extended team that helped out with Maester over the last few months including Clayton Tyger, Friedrich Weinmann, Justin Grote and Andrew Taylor.
🪃 Acknowledgement of Country
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