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Teams – New authentication requirements for Teams PowerShell

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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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Entra ID – You can now change the source of authority for synced groups (preview)

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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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Entra ID – Known issue (but undocumented) with conditional access

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Now I got your attention, this sounds alarming but in fact it is not and you will see below. As you know Entra ID Conditional Access policies allow you to protect access to your resources linked with Microsoft authentication platform (Entra ID). Well, let dig into the issue. First a bit of context. Requirements Block

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Entra ID – New version of Entra ID Private Network Connector

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  As you are probably already aware, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) offers a functionality to publish internal web applications to integrate with Entra authentication and no need to open your firewall known as Entra ID Private Network Connector (formerly Azure AD App Proxy).   Well, there has been a new version release –

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Teams – New Teams administration role – reader

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This has been a long awaited new administration role: Teams Reader. If you are managing Microsoft Teams, you already know you have various administration roles (6) allowing you delegating some aspect of Teams administration. Unfortunately, until now there was no way to grant a reader access to your Teams tenant. Well, good news as the

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Entra ID Connect – New major version for Entra ID Connect (2.5.3.0)

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If you are synching your Active Directory with Entra ID, you know you need to keep up with the Entra ID Connect version to ensure you are supported but also enjoy improvements and/or new features. Well, this is it, a new Entra ID Connect version has been released and this is a major one. First

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Entra ID – Ensure you are running at least a specific version of Entra ID Connect before April 7

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  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

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Entra ID – Get conditional access policy impact

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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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Entra ID – New administration role – People administrator

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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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Entra ID – Edit multiple users at once (preview)

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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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