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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This feature is currently in preview with its own support SLA and is not (yet?) available through the Entra ID portal. As you know to deliver SSO authentication, Entra ID uses Enterprise Applications (either from catalog, application proxy or registered ones). Administrators or application owners can now safely pause access to a registered application to
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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
Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview) Read More »
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
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
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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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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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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If you are using Microsoft cloud solutions (M365 or Azure), you already know that authentication and access control to these services rely on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Then you know Entra ID administrators can control authentication methods supported for authentication against the tenant (from MFA to QR code or OATH tokens). One authentication
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NOTE this post was originally posted in October 2nd and has now been updated with instructions from the Entra ID portal As you know, Entra ID Conditional Access policies play an important role in securing to your resources integrated with Entra ID for authentication (such as M365, Azure or third-party cloud apps). If you have
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