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