As you know, Entra ID offers a way to synchronize identity objects between different tenants (cross-tenant sync) the same way you can synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Entra (Entra ID Cloud Sync or Entra ID Connect). Since recently, Entra Cross-Tenant Sync is now able to also sync groups (Entra ID – You can now […]
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A new feature has been introduced in Entra: deleted device objects recovery. Similar to what has been there for years with user objects and more recently to group objects, you can now recover delete device objects up to 30 days after deletion. To do so, logon to your Entra tenant and access the Devices\Delete devices
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If you are still relying on on-premises Active Directory for your identity management, especially because you still need to access applications or resources on-premises relying on Windows authentication, you are probably synchronizing your AD with Entra ID. Most likely, you are using Entra Connect Sync to sync your on-premises directory with Entra.
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Managing identity across multiple tenants is a growing challenge for organizations of all sizes. Mergers, acquisitions, and the rise of shadow IT often lead to a fragmented tenant landscape—creating security and compliance blind spots that attackers are quick to exploit. Even a single poorly secured tenant can put your entire organization at risk. This poses
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As we rely more and more to Entra ID for authentication and access control, a key requirements is the ability to recover from attacks and/or accidental changes. While there has been few improvements in Entra for quickly recovering (recycle bin for security groups (Entra ID – You can now recover deleted cloud security groups (preview))
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If you work in an hybrid environment with Active Directory being synchronized with Entra ID using either Entra ID Connect or Cloud Sync, you probably already the best practice and recommendation to use cloud-based account only when assigning administration privileges. This helps mitigating potential account compromission to be extended to other environment and elevated privileges.
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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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UPDATED February 20th, 2026, you can now use the Entra ID portal to deactivate/reactivate registered applications. This feature is currently in preview with its own support SLA and is not (yet?) also available through the Entra ID portal. As you know to deliver SSO authentication, Entra ID uses Enterprise Applications (either from catalog, application proxy
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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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