For the past few months, I have seen multiple group based license assignments failing on different tenants. While there is no official communication (Message Center or other communication channels), the only option has been to open a support request to Microsoft to initiate a “back-end” sync. Once this sync has been proceed, the group based
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Entra ID Global Secure Access (GSA) is a Microsoft cloud based security edge solution aimed to replace VPN for accessing on-premises resources (Private Access), securing internet access through web content filtering (Internet Access) or Microsoft cloud services directly from the endpoint. One component of Entra ID Global Secure Access Internet Access is the Transport Layer
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Over the past few weeks I saw lot of posts telling everybody to upgrade their Entra ID Connect instance to at least version 2.5.79.0 to avoid synchronization disruption after September 30. All these posts are forgetting one important point, Microsoft is also deprecating Entra ID Connect (gradually); so instead of recommending to upgrade Entra ID
If you use Entra Global Secure Access (What is Global Secure Access? – Global Secure Access | Microsoft Learn) to protect connectivity to M365, Internet or internal network from your devices, you must be aware that a new version (2.32.294) has been made available for Windows devices (both x64 and ARM). Your administrators can download
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As you probably already know, you can integrate your on-premise web applications with Entra to leverage Entra authentication and access control capabilities without having to open inbound ports on your perimeter firewall. This is called Entra ID Private Connector, formerly know as Application Proxy. Well, a new version (1.5.4892.0) has been made available for download
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If you are managing both Active Directory and Entra ID tenant, you already know you may/must synchronize your Active Directory to Entra ID using one of the synchronization tools: Entra ID Connect or Entra ID Cloud Sync. Earlier last month, I have reminded you to start looking at migrating from Entra ID Connect to Entra
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When you have to deal with a security breach with account(s) being compromised, the time response to stop thread spreading within your environment is very important. Either you have or not a SOC team, usually the first responders to such activity is the support team. Unfortunately, until now there was no easy way, because of
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As you know, Entra is providing a self-service password reset (SSPR) to end-users to self reset their password instead of contacting your support team. For years, the registration process for SSPR has been merged with the registration process for multi-factor authentication (MFA) so onboarding was simpler for end-users. Despite this process merge, administrators were still
If you are managing Entra ID tenant(s), you know that it provides SSO authentication. However, from time to time, end-users may still be requested to confirm they want to continue the sign-in process (as shown in the below screenshot). This experience may be more likely occurring in the European Union due to the privacy controls
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While Microsoft has started the process to deprecate Entra ID Connect Sync and recommend migrating to Entra Cloud Sync, Entra Connect Sync is still supported and being updated. Microsoft has published a new version of the Entra Connect Sync which, in addition of the usual bug fixes, provides these new or improved capabilities: Added support
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