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

Michael Morten Sonne January 12, 2026

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

Frank van Zandwijk January 8, 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

Michael Morten Sonne November 17, 2025

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

Lars Lohmann September 1, 2025

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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Azure Arc & Hybrid Workers – Simplifying Hybrid Cloud Automation Pr.1

Michael Morten Sonne July 28, 2025

What is Azure Arc Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that extends your Azure management and governance capabilities to your resources outside of Azure, and this can include on-premises servers, virtual machines, and other cloud environments. With Azure Arc, you can centrally manage, secure, and automate workloads across hybrid and

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Entra ID – Managed Identity Permission Manager

Michael Morten Sonne April 8, 2025

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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Mandatory MFA enforcements is coming

mms@mindcore.dk October 3, 2024

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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