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Rabia comes from a solid IT background and has been writing professionally about Microsoft products and other technology for four years. Rabia has also written for OnMSFT.com as well as Windows Report. She is always up to date on the latest trends in the IT Industry and has done extensive research in the data science industry.

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Microsoft Now Lets IT Admins Review & Remove Inactive Azure AD Users

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has unveiled a couple of security improvements to Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). The company has released a new access reviews feature in preview that lets organizations remove inactive user accounts that could potentially cause security risks. More specifically, IT administrators can now delete accounts from Azure AD that haven’t logged…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Now Lets IT Admins Enable Suspicious Activities Reporting in Azure AD

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has introduced a new Report Suspicious Activity feature in Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). Suspicious activity reports provide detailed information about unusual sign-in attempts to help organizations detect and respond to potential security threats. According to Microsoft, the new feature enables users to report suspicious activities for unknown authentication requests. Users…

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Security

Microsoft Adds Time-Based One-Time Passcode Support to Azure AD

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has released time-based one-time passcode (TOTP) support for Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) customers. The new security feature allows end users to validate their identity with temporary one-time passcodes generated by an authenticator app. Time-based password (TOTP) is one of the most popular multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods. It’s a temporary numeric…

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Security

Grafana Patches Critical Azure AD Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Grafana has recently released new security updates to patch a critical vulnerability in its application. The flaw could enable threat actors to hijack Grafana accounts that use Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) for authentication. Grafana is a popular analytics and visualization service that enables IT admins to monitor and analyze time-series data….

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Releases Cross-Tenant Synchronization for Seamless Azure AD B2B Collaboration

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has announced the general availability of cross-tenant synchronization for Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) customers. The new feature allows IT admins to automate the creation of user accounts across tenants in their organization. Microsoft launched the public preview of cross-tenant synchronization for Azure AD back in January. Cross-tenant synchronization helps to…

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Cloud Computing

IT Admins Can Now Create Nested Dynamic Azure AD Groups

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has released a new update that allows IT teams to create dynamic Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) groups based on membership in other groups. This is one of the top requests from customers and intends to address certain limitations associated with the existing nested groups structure. With this release, IT Pros…

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Security – 4

Microsoft Patches Critical ‘nOAuth’ Flaw in Azure AD Apps

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft has patched a new security vulnerability that was discovered in some applications leveraging Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). The authentication bypass flaw could allow threat actors to completely take over the victim’s account. The security vulnerability, dubbed nOAuth, was first discovered by the security researchers at Descope. It lets threat actors…

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Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge for Business to Be Enabled By Default Next Month

Microsoft Edge for Business will soon become the default experience for all enterprise customers. Microsoft has announced its plans to release version 116 of its Edge browser with the new dedicated work experience next month. Microsoft Edge for Business launched in public preview back in May 2023. This release allows users to better separate their…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Entra ID Adds Restricted Management Administrative Units in Preview

Microsoft has introduced restricted management administrative units support in public preview for Microsoft Entra ID. The new role-based access control (RBAC) feature lets organizations allow only select IT admins, security teams, or devices to access specific resources. “Restricted management administrative units allow you to protect specific objects in your tenant from modification by anyone other…

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Office 365

Microsoft Bookings Mobile Apps to Be Retired Next Month

Last Update: Jul 14, 2023

Microsoft is getting ready to sunset its Bookings mobile apps next month. The apps will be retired on July 15, and users will no longer be able to access Microsoft Bookings through Android and iOS devices. Microsoft Bookings is an appointment scheduling and booking management service that launched in March 2017. The tool is primarily…

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