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Entra ID – Prepare to migrate from Entra Connect Sync to Entra Cloud Sync

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  If you are still relying on on-premises Active Directory for your identity management, especially because you still need to access applications or resources on-premises relying on Windows authentication, you are probably synchronizing your AD with Entra ID.   Most likely, you are using Entra Connect Sync to sync your on-premises directory with Entra.   […]

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Entra ID – You can now synchronize groups with cross-tenant capability

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As you probably already know, you can synchronize users from one Entra ID tenant to another one, simplifying user management when in multiple tenant configuration (see Configure cross-tenant synchronization – Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn). Until now you could only synchronize user objects between tenants, with the error EntityTypeNotSupported. Well, good news as now

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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 – 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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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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