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Entra.News #6: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra

Quick reminders on upcoming changes to some Conditional Access policies and authentication plus more updates from the community...

Aug 20, 2023
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👋 Hi, this is Merill with the sixth edition of entra.news, your weekly roundup of Microsoft Entra related news.


⚡️ Microsoft

📌 Entra changes

Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp for users in India, Indonesia and New Zealand (starting Sep 2023) • Message Center (MC666628)

Conditional access policy enforcement for Office Scripts (rolling out in late Sep 2023) • Message Center (MC668795)

Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources (Targeted Release: currently rolling out and expected to complete late Sep 2023) • Message Center (MC666629)

📺 Watch

Just-in-time access to Amazon Web Services (includes PIM demo) (3 min) • Arvind Harinder

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (1 min) aka.ms/ITDR • Microsoft Security

What's new in Microsoft Entra - August 2023 (1 hour) • The 425 Show (Grace Picking • Jorge Lopez)


From the community…

☀️ Learn

Replacement of MSOnline and Azure AD Powershell modules • Toni Pohl

Entra ID Guest Account Sponsors with GUI and PowerShell • Tony Redmond

Entra ID Dynamic Groups: Leveraging the New employeeHireDate Feature • Jonas Bøgvad

What's lurking in your Microsoft Graph app role assignments? • Stian Andresen Strysse

Mastering Access Token Acquisition: Using a certificate • Nico De Cleyre

Enabling Time-based Restrictions in Conditional Access • Daniel Bradley

Microsoft Entra Management and Security Tools • Thomas Naunheim

Conditional access policy enforcement for Office Scripts • ms365news

What is Microsoft Entra Private Access? • Samuel Eng


⚒️ Toolkit

Entra Exporter 2.0 • Microsoft Identity CAT Team


🎙️ Podcasts

Episode 347 - All your Entra.news with Merill Fernando • Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast (Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag)


📺 Watch

Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access Q&A with Thomas Detzner - August 2023 • John Craddock Identity and Access Training (Thomas Detzner)

Azure AD recon with OSINT tools (DEF CON 31 Recon Village) (27 min) • Dr Nestori Syynimaa

Dumping NTHashes from Azure AD - TROOPERS23 (50 min) • Dr Nestori Syynimaa

My Top 5 Tips for Users & Groups in Microsoft Entra ID! (15 min) • Peter Rising MVP

Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) Tenant Authentication Availability (7 min) • RioCloudSync

Global Secure Access (45 min) • Intune Training (Adam Gross & Steven Hosking)

Protecting Sensitive Entra Objects with Restricted Management Administrative Units (10 min) • John Savill

Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) Protected Actions (12 min) • John Savill

Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge Overview (1 hour) • John Savill


👨🏽‍💻 Merill’s corner

aka.ms/EntraExporter

Illustration showing how Entra Exporter works.

Microsoft First Party App Name Lookup - aka.ms/AppNames

Image with a funnel illustrating the three data sources and the two output files.

Microsoft Entra naming guide

Microsoft Entra Naming Guide
Are you referring to the Azure AD Product or a feature?

If it is a Product then Azure AD is replaced with Microsoft Entra ID
E.g. Azure AD P2 = Microsoft Entra ID P2

If it is a Feature then Azure AD is replaced with Microsoft Entra
E.g. Azure AD Conditional Access = Microsoft Entra Conditional Access

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