Azure Active Directory

Microsoft has announced that its Entra Verified ID service is now generally available for commercial customers. The new decentralized identity offering enables organizations to easily create, issue, and verify the credentials of users to provide proof of education, employment, and other claims. “Microsoft’s Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Azure AD VC) service enables you to trust…

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Active Directory Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) back in February. Now, the software giant has released some enhancements for the new service based on customer feedback. Certificate-based authentication (CBA) is a robust service that lets organizations validate a user’s identity with X.509 certificates against Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). It…

Microsoft has recently announced some important updates for Azure AD Connect Group Writeback. This release enables organizations to write back Microsoft 365 groups (assigned & dynamic) to their on-premises Active Directory as a security group, mail-enabled security group, or distribution list. For those unfamiliar, Group Writeback is a useful tool that enables IT Pros to…

Microsoft has announced that Temporary Access Pass (TAP) is generally available for commercial customers. The Temporary Access Pass feature enables users to securely sign in to their accounts without a password. Microsoft launched the public preview of Temporary Access Pass in Azure Active Directory earlier this year. It could be useful in scenarios where the…

Microsoft has announced new features and improvements coming to its Microsoft Entra Verified ID service. The company says that these updates should help to make credentials exchange easier for both issuers and verifiers. For those unfamiliar, the Verified ID service first debuted as “Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials” in preview last year. The decentralized identity…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has started rolling out several new capabilities for Servicing profiles. These are one of the top-requested features from IT admins, who will now be able to automate updates for Microsoft 365 apps via Azure Active Directory (AD). The Servicing profiles feature enables IT Pros to roll out monthly updates for…

Microsoft has released out-of-band patches for Windows 11 and various versions of Windows 10. The latest updates address the sign-in issues with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft 365 services on Arm-based devices. In release notes for the out-of-band fixes, Microsoft admits the June 2022 Patch Tuesday updates broke VPN connections. The bug also…

Microsoft has confirmed a new issue that causes Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory (AAD) sign-in issues on ARM-based Windows devices. The problem happens after installing the June Patch Tuesday updates, and it affects Windows 11 21H2, Windows 10 21H2, Windows 10 21H1, and Windows 10 20H2. “After installing KB5014697 on a Windows Arm-based devices,…

Securing Confidential SharePoint Online Data SharePoint Online sites hold some very confidential information. Now that SharePoint Online supports sensitivity labels, you can protect individual documents with encryption to stop their contents leaking. Other features, like regarding newly uploaded documents sensitive by default to stop them being shared externally until Data Loss Prevention (DLP) processing completes,…

Microsoft has released some important updates for its Microsoft Entra workload identities service. The new capabilities are designed to protect workload identities that are vulnerable to security threats such as consent-phishing attacks. Workload identities are non-human identity aspects (such as virtual machines and containers) that allow an application or a service principal to access a…