Microsoft Entra

Entra ID – New administration roles for Copilot and agents

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 – You can now recover deleted cloud security groups (preview)

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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Entra ID – Temporary access pass and MFA (re)registration

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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Entra ID – You can now list and recover deleted conditional access policies (updated)

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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Entra ID – Manage inactive users with Identity Lifecycle Workflow (preview)

Identity Governance helps achieving a balance between productivity and security. Identity Lifecycle Workflow as part of Entra ID provides effective identity governance at scale helping managing identity lifecycle by automating accounts management. Unfortunately, there was a gap – which is now filled in preview – related to inactive accounts. These inactive accounts – usually which

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Entra ID – You can now manage Entra ID applications policies from the portal

As you know an Entra ID enterprise application is a representation of a cloud-based software application within your Entra ID tenant. It allows to integrate your Entra ID tenant with the software platform, allowing single-sign on and access control capabilities through Entra ID as control plane. Most Entra ID administrators are not usually aware of

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Teams – New authentication requirements for Teams PowerShell

If you use an Entra ID application to authenticate against Teams when using PowerShell you need to update the permissions granted to the application. Starting September 15th, 2025, authenticating with Entra ID application when using PowerShell will require the following additional permissions: GroupMember.Read.All RoleManagement.Read.Directory To update the permissions, connect to your Entra ID tenant (Microsoft

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Entra ID – You can now change the source of authority for synced groups (preview)

With the release of the latest version of Entra ID Connect (2.5.76.0, available for download from the Entra ID portal )Microsoft Entra Connect – Microsoft Entra admin center) (and Entra ID Cloud Sync – 1.1.1370.0), you can now change the source of authority for synchronized groups. With the move to ‘cloud first’ approach, there has

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Entra ID – Known issue (but undocumented) with conditional access

Now I got your attention, this sounds alarming but in fact it is not and you will see below. As you know Entra ID Conditional Access policies allow you to protect access to your resources linked with Microsoft authentication platform (Entra ID). Well, let dig into the issue. First a bit of context. Requirements Block

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Entra ID – New version of Entra ID Private Network Connector

  As you are probably already aware, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) offers a functionality to publish internal web applications to integrate with Entra authentication and no need to open your firewall known as Entra ID Private Network Connector (formerly Azure AD App Proxy).   Well, there has been a new version release –

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