Microsoft Entra ID

First look: Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs

This week Microsoft is kicking off 2026 strong with a much-anticipated feature releasing into preview: Tenant Configuration Management (TCM) APIs. Traditionally administrators have to make configuration changes either in the portals one at a time or in through Graph API using, for example, PowerShell. However, what if another administrator comes

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Entra ID – PIM for Groups – Automating PIM Group Activation in Entra ID with PowerShell

Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Groups allows organizations to control and audit elevated group memberships through just-in-time access. Managing elevated permissions in Microsoft Entra ID can sometimes be tricky, especially when it comes to Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Groups. While the Entra portal allows users to

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Heads-up: Service Principal-less apps Retirement March 2026

In March 2026, Entra ID will stop supporting service principal-less authentication behavior. This may affect certain applications currently running in your tenant. Service principal-less apps may already be frozen since April 2025 if they weren’t actively used, but those apps that were, have remained uninterrupted until March next year. Microsoft

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How Community Feedback Shaped the New Entra ID App Management UI

Back in September Microsoft has recently teaset App Management Policies in Microsoft Entra ID UI, which let you set tenant-wide restrictions on how applications and service principals can be configured from the UI – for example restricting certificate lifetimes, blocking new passwords/secrets, enforcing valid URI formats, etc. (as it looks like for now

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Per-user Entra ID multifactor authentication

Today we secure our tenants using conditional access or security defaults, but in the old days many tenants were configured to use Legacy per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). It is recommended that per-user Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication should not be enabled or enforced when Conditional Access policies are in use. Convert

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Entra ID – Managed Identity Permission Manager

Managing permissions for Managed Identities in Azure/Entra ID has been a long-standing challenge. Microsoft has yet not provided a built-in interface for this, leaving administrators reliant on PowerShell to handle permissions – even if the “same” exists for App Registrations and Enterprise Applications. To bridge this gap, I developed this

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Languages confusion in Microsoft 365 portals

Introduction You may think that setting up a language in Microsoft 365 [admin.microsoft.com] portals may be straightforward. However, it may not be as obvious as it seems at first, and there are many factors which can play a role in that. The Basics The interface language of Azure [portal.azure.com] and

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Mandatory MFA enforcements is coming

Introduction In case you missed the update about the new announcement Microsoft is tightening security around Azure and Microsoft admin portals, by enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for all interactive sign-ins. This change has sparked a lot of questions across social medias, and in this post, I aim to address these

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To Multitenant or not to Multitenant?

Microsoft in recent months has made leaps and bounds to support Multitenant organizations utilizing Cross-tenant Synchronization to attempt to build a seamless end-user experience. Have they succeeded? Almost! Let’s take a look in this last blogpost of the year. Why even have multiple tenants? In a perfect world, every organization

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