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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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Entra ID – Starting September 1st, 2024 you will have to use M365 administration portal to manage license assignments

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If you have been using the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) to manage and assign licenses for Microsoft cloud services, you will have to use the M365 administration portal to do so starting September 1st, 2024. Starting this date, the Entra ID Licenses blade will be deprecated. If you are using group based licensing, this will

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Entra ID – You can now use Lifecycle workflows to manage synced users lifecycle (preview)

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As you know, identity management is an important part of controlling access to resources and applications by end-users, especially when working with cloud services. While Entra ID has quite few features to help in managing identities, these features are sometime limited to cloud-based only account; they can’t help in managing synced/on-premises identities, as as you

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Entra ID – Multiple passwordless account are now available on Android

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As you probably already know, Entra ID has been provided a passwordless capability to sign-in to applications without using password for quite some time (see Passwordless sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator – Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn). Well, there was an important limitation as only 1 account could be configured as passwordless with Microsoft Authenticator.

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Intune – End-user self-service BitLocker recovery key

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If you manage Windows/macOS devices fleet you already know that it is recommended to enable disk encryption on these devices (either through GPO or Intune) with recovery information saved in Entra ID. Then you also already know that administrators (global administrator, cloud device administrator, helpdesk administrator, Intune administrator or security administrator or reader) can read

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Entra ID – New workbook to help having a better understanding with your Risk-Based Access policies

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As you know, with Entra ID P2 you can implement Risk-Based Conditional Access policies. It is sometime no easy to understand what is going to happen with implementing Conditional Access policies. Well, good news, this new workbook – Impact analysis of risk-based access policies – will help you understand the impact. The workbook will emulate

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Entra ID – You can now get Entra License utilization insights (preview)

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This has been a long awaited feature by Entra ID administrators: getting insights about license utilization. Well, good news as it finally arrived. To be able to get this insight, you will need to have either Entra ID P1 or P2 licenses. With this feature, you will get usage information of your Entra ID premium

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