If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID using Entra Connect, you need to plan to upgrade to the latest version 2.6.1.0 This new version does not provide any new capabilities, rather bugs fixes or improving existing features. This new version: introduces a change in managed certificate lifetime when using the application […]
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This feature is currently in preview with its own support SLA and is not (yet?) available through the Entra ID portal. As you know to deliver SSO authentication, Entra ID uses Enterprise Applications (either from catalog, application proxy or registered ones). Administrators or application owners can now safely pause access to a registered application to
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You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services. Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft service health status) may not be updated accordingly, neither the Twitter feeds for each services. This makes investigating bit more difficult to identify if this is something
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If you have been using M365, you probably already know that you are able to recover some deleted objects. Until now, deleted group recovery was only possible for M365 Groups (including Teams) but not for security, mail-enabled or synchronized groups. After the recent recovery feature update to recover deleted Conditional Access policies and locations (see
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If you are using Microsoft cloud solutions (M365 or Azure), you already know that authentication and access control to these services rely on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Then you know Entra ID administrators can control authentication methods supported for authentication against the tenant (from MFA to QR code or OATH tokens). One authentication
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NOTE this post was originally posted in October 2nd and has now been updated with instructions from the Entra ID portal As you know, Entra ID Conditional Access policies play an important role in securing to your resources integrated with Entra ID for authentication (such as M365, Azure or third-party cloud apps). If you have
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Identity Governance helps achieving a balance between productivity and security. Identity Lifecycle Workflow as part of Entra ID provides effective identity governance at scale helping managing identity lifecycle by automating accounts management. Unfortunately, there was a gap – which is now filled in preview – related to inactive accounts. These inactive accounts – usually which
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As you know an Entra ID enterprise application is a representation of a cloud-based software application within your Entra ID tenant. It allows to integrate your Entra ID tenant with the software platform, allowing single-sign on and access control capabilities through Entra ID as control plane. Most Entra ID administrators are not usually aware of
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If you use an Entra ID application to authenticate against Teams when using PowerShell you need to update the permissions granted to the application. Starting September 15th, 2025, authenticating with Entra ID application when using PowerShell will require the following additional permissions: GroupMember.Read.All RoleManagement.Read.Directory To update the permissions, connect to your Entra ID tenant (Microsoft
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With the release of the latest version of Entra ID Connect (2.5.76.0, available for download from the Entra ID portal )Microsoft Entra Connect – Microsoft Entra admin center) (and Entra ID Cloud Sync – 1.1.1370.0), you can now change the source of authority for synchronized groups. With the move to ‘cloud first’ approach, there has
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