Entra.News #48: This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about adding Verified ID Face Check to your apps, configuring certificate based authentication + heaps more from the community!
👋 Hi, Merill here with this week’s round up of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
There are some excellent articles this week from the community, the wealth of Entra knowledge being shared is 😘.
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
📖 Read
Combat impersonation using Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID • Ankur Patel
Celebrating One Billion MSAL.NET Downloads • Den Delimarsky
The four stages of creating a trust fabric with identity and network security • Joy Chik
📺 Watch
Configure Microsoft Certificate Based Authentication (7 min) • Vimala Ranganathan, Nick Wryter
🗣️ Message Center
7 Jun - MC688930 - Teams admin center: App centric management and changes to app permission policies
📆 Upcoming Events
Microsoft Entra Verified ID: Helpdesk Security Verification with Face Check! (Registration Required)
Tue, 11 Jun @ 6:00 PM PT
Wed, 12 Jun @ 11 AM AEST
From the community…
I ❤️ Christina’s idea of printing out the Microsoft Entra mind map. You can get the mind map from idpowertoys.merill.net. Keep an eye out for the 2024 update 😉.
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Entra ID – You can now use Lifecycle workflows to manage synced users lifecycle (preview) • Benoit Hamet
How to run PowerShell scripts in Entra ID Governance Lifecycle Workflows • Christian Frohn
Demystifying Privileged Identity Management - Part 1 • Brandon Colley
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (SSE)
Entra Private Access/GSA – Automatic Network Detection • Morten Knudsen
Entra ID – Global Secure Access Client – Assign users and groups to forward • Michael Morten Sonne
🔑 Authentication
Migrate legacy MFA and legacy SSPR policies to the authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID • Oliver Müller
Shift your MFA Server to Entra ID MFA • Michele Blum
Tackling MFA Fatigue: A Solution for Sign-in error code 9002341: User is required to permit SSO • Ewelina Paczkowska
Microsoft Entra MFA Registration Policy • Flavio Meyer
Passwordless/Phishing Resistant Considerations in Entra • Jay Kerai
Enable Microsoft Entra ID passkey authentication • Vignesh Mudliar
How to Configure Passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID • o365info Team
👥 Group Management
Time based Group membership for Entra devices • Michael Meier
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Authentication using certificate - Entra ID • Stephan Van Rooij
Choosing Between Graph API Requests or Graph SDK Cmdlets • Tony Redmond
Microsoft Graph: Get an Access Token from a PowerShell Session • Martin Heusser
MSGraph & Bicep = ❤️ • Brian Veldman
🚦 Conditional Access
Conditional Access Insights and Reporting Workbook • Admin Droid
🔐 Credential Management
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
How to Configure multitenant organization in Microsoft 365 • o365info Team
📈 Reporting and Insights
Report Delegated Permission Assignments for Users and Apps • Tony Redmond
🥷 Security
Hardening Exchange Online Security with Microsoft Entra, Intune, and Defender XDR • Shehan Perera
Stealthy Persistence with “Directory Synchronization Accounts” Role in Entra ID • Clément Notin
Understanding Primary Refresh Tokens in the Entra ID Sign-in logs • Daniel Bradley
Fixing my own (identity configuration) environment - Part 1 • Guido Baijense
Fixing my own (identity configuration) environment - Part 2 - Microsoft Secure Score for Identity • Guido Baijense
♻️ Sync
Microsoft Entra Connect Sync 2.1.20.0 retiring • Ali Tajran
📒 Tenant Configuration
🎙️ Podcasts
RunAs Radio - Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping • Michael Epping, Richard Campbell
📺 Watch
BSidesCharm 2024 - The Current State of Microsoft Identity Security: Common Security Issues (52 min) • Sean Metcalf
How to setup Windows Hello for Business with Cloud Trust (10 min) • Steve Weiner
Enabling On-Premises Password Change to Reset User Risk (2 min) • John Savill
Client authentication with certificates - Authentication shorts (2 min) • Stephan Van Rooij
🪃 Acknowledgement of Country
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