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Entra ID – Manage multi-tenant at scale in security (preview)

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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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Entra ID – You can now backup and recover your Entra tenant (preview)

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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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Entra ID – Entra ID Connect/Cloud Sync going to block hard match for privileged roles

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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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Entra ID – New Entra Connect version is available for download

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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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Entra – You can now disable registered applications (preview)

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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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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

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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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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

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As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security group using Azure Bastion. Until then you could authenticate to the virtual machine running Windows using either password from a key vault

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Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview)

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If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID. You also then probably know that you can register custom applications to integrate with Entra ID authentication and access control capabilities. Entra ID can also be used for segregating corporate

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Entra ID – You can now use a username instead of email for external identities (preview)

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If you use Microsoft Entra ID, you most likely already know you can also use it for external identities management, and I’m not talking about guest account in your M365 tenant for collaboration. This feature, used to be called B2C (business to consumer) tenant, now called External Identities tenant is used to use a dedicated

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Entra ID – New administration roles for Copilot and agents

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As you know if you use Entra for managing identity and access controls to Microsoft Cloud services, such as Entra ID or M365, you have corresponding Entra ID administration roles to delegate the least privileges permissions to allow users, mostly IT peoples, to execute their tasks. This means when there is no capabilities or features

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