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Entra 🆔 News #168 → This week in Microsoft Entra (opens the original)
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🔑 Surprise! Your users have passkeys now. The Entra passkey registration campaign is rolling out, and a lot of admins are finding passkeys in their tenant that they never planned for. If that's you, there's plenty in the Authentication section this week. Shane Mallia looks into why synced passkeys are showing up, Jan Bakker covers the smoother onboarding experience and <a href="https://janbakker.tech/where-to-store-your-micr
Entra 🆔 News #167 → This week in Microsoft Entra (opens the original)
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👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.Passkeys, passkeys, passkeys. The message center is full of them again this week. We’ve rounded them up below, plus posts from the community breaking down what each one actually means for your tenant.And don’t miss this week’s episode. Sam Erde and Michael Soule joined me to talk Active Directory security testing in Maester 2.2.Enjoy!Sponsored by:<div class="captioned-image-co
Active Directory Security Testing in Maester 2.2 (opens the original)
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Active Directory is not dead. It is nearly thirty years old, Microsoft is still shipping new capabilities and new telemetry for it, and most of the forests running today will outlive the people currently administering them. What has changed is that you can now test it the same way you test your cloud tenant. Maester, the open-source PowerShell testing framework, added Active Directory coverage: 269 opt-in checks across 19 areas, from users, groups, computers and service principal names through G
Entra 🆔 News #166 → This week in Microsoft Entra (opens the original)
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👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.Apologies for the slightly late newsletter this week. I had way too much fun at the HIP Conference in Nashville, managed to pick up a bug on the way home, and I’m only just recovering from all the excitement 😀Don’t forget to check out this weeks podcast with none other than the ‘Yoda of Microsoft Entra’ Tarek Dawoud, sharing some deep insights into AD and Entra.Enjoy!Sponsored by:<
Microsoft Security Architect: Active Directory Is 10x Harder to Defend Than Entra (opens the original)
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At Black Hat USA 2026, Microsoft’s David Weston put three numbers on a slide that anyone still running domain controllers should sit with. The Microsoft Security Response Center went from 80 patches in February to 1,142 at the July Patch Tuesday. The fastest observed breakout time dropped from 98 minutes to 27 seconds. And mean time-to-exploit flipped from 63 days after a patch shipped to seven days before the patch existed. Tarek Dawoud, Lead Architect on the Technical Excellence Team in Micros
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