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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This most is reminder as Microsoft has started the deprecation of Entra Connect Sync the on-premises directory synchronization tool between Active Directory and Entra. Don’t be worry, while there is no official and clear schedule and completion date you still have time to migrate from Entra Connect Sync to Entra Cloud Sync. Microsoft is going
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By now you probably already know about Entra Global Secure Access (GSA) to provide a secure access to corporate resources, either cloud (Office 365), internal applications (private access) or even manage internet access to filter authorized web sites. Well, until now there was a down side as the device must have been joined to the
As you know, Entra ID offers a way to synchronize identity objects between different tenants (cross-tenant sync) the same way you can synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Entra (Entra ID Cloud Sync or Entra ID Connect). Since recently, Entra Cross-Tenant Sync is now able to also sync groups (Entra ID – You can now
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A new feature has been introduced in Entra: deleted device objects recovery. Similar to what has been there for years with user objects and more recently to group objects, you can now recover delete device objects up to 30 days after deletion. To do so, logon to your Entra tenant and access the Devices\Delete devices
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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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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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