If you are synchronizing your Active Directory with Entra ID using Entra ID Connect, it is a best practice to always keep up with the Entra ID Connect version and run the latest one. Unfortunately, this is sometime forgotten and you may be running old/unsupported version of Entra ID Connect. Well, now is […]
As you Entra ID allows you to protect and enforce access policies when users are accessing resources using Conditional Access (CA) policies. Conditional Access policies can have 3 state: Off: meaning the policy is not being applied On: meaning the policy is going to be applied depending of the targeted users/groups/admin roles, applications…. Report: meaning
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A new Entra ID administration role – People administrator – has been introduced to help managing people-related settings and profile photos without needing the high privileges of Global admin or User admin roles. This new role is being made available through the Entra ID portal (off course it can also be assigned using Privileged Identity
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When managing identity systems – such as Active Directory or Entra ID, from time to time, administrators must edit multiple users at once. Until then (and this is still the case for Active Directory, when you had to do such thing on Entra ID, administrators had to use a script. Well, good news as you
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Some time ago, Microsoft has introduced an SLA attainment health dashboard to allow customers following Entra ID SLA status over time. This dashboard is available from the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) by accessing the Monitoring & health\Health blade. Well, this dashboard has been updated to also included additional scenarios (such as MFA, compliant/managed devices). These
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If you have been using the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) to manage and assign licenses for Microsoft cloud services, you will have to use the M365 administration portal to do so starting September 1st, 2024. Starting this date, the Entra ID Licenses blade will be deprecated. If you are using group based licensing, this will
As you know, identity management is an important part of controlling access to resources and applications by end-users, especially when working with cloud services. While Entra ID has quite few features to help in managing identities, these features are sometime limited to cloud-based only account; they can’t help in managing synced/on-premises identities, as as you
As you probably already know, Entra ID has been provided a passwordless capability to sign-in to applications without using password for quite some time (see Passwordless sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator – Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn). Well, there was an important limitation as only 1 account could be configured as passwordless with Microsoft Authenticator.
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If you manage Windows/macOS devices fleet you already know that it is recommended to enable disk encryption on these devices (either through GPO or Intune) with recovery information saved in Entra ID. Then you also already know that administrators (global administrator, cloud device administrator, helpdesk administrator, Intune administrator or security administrator or reader) can read
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As this is something you may not review and check frequently, you need to know there have been few changes related to the Location setting in Entra ID Conditional Access. The first one, quite minor if you think about it, is the Location setting has been renamed to Network. The second change is an additional
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