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After the successful SolarWinds attack in 2020 where attackers gained access to Microsoft’s systems, Microsoft changed its approach and aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) zero trust architecture. In this article, we’re going to detail how Microsoft’s zero trust approach leverages Azure Active Directory and Identity and Access Management to enable cloud…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of cross-tenant collaboration settings in its Azure Active Directory service. The new feature enables IT admins to manage how users can securely collaborate with external partners and in other Azure Active Directory organizations. The ability to configure cross-tenant access settings was one of the top requested features from Azure…

MC228668 – Now in public preview, Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy natively supports apps that use header-based authentication. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68895.  When this will happen The public preview is available now. We will communicate again before this feature becomes generally available. How this will affect your organization Customers…

MC333227 – Microsoft will begin retiring past versions of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect Sync 12 months from the date they are superseded by a newer version. Key points Timing: In mid-March 2023, this policy will go into effect, and all versions prior to the last released version (latest version prior to mid-March 2022)…

MC650420 – Updated September 18, 2023: Deployment will begin September 25th and will run to October 20th. These dates replace the dates mentioned in the email “We’re enabling a stronger form of multifactor authentication beginning September 15, 2023” that you might have received. We apologize for the inconvenience. Publicly switched telephone networks (PSTN) such as…

MC678069 – On September 30th, 2025 Microsoft will be retiring the ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy Multifactor Authentication (MFA) and Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) policies in Entra ID. Organizations should migrate their methods to the converged authentication methods policy where methods can be managed centrally for all authentication scenarios including passwordless, multi-factor authentication and self-service password reset.  When…

Configure SMS-based sign-in for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users.

MC302460 – Microsoft now officially support the use of Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups to be used as audiences within SharePoint Online’s audience targeting system. Previously, Microsoft supported Active Directory (AD) security groups and Microsoft 365 groups. Support of dynamic groups will expand capabilities of SharePoint’s audience targeting to deliver additional richness in the types of…

MC258228 – Updated June 22, 2021: Microsoft has extended the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Note: If you have already transitioned to TLS 1.2, you can safely disregard this message. As previously announced Microsoft will soon begin to retire support for following protocols and ciphers, in Azure Active Directory: TLS 1.1, TLS 1.0 ,…

MC744123 – The Microsoft Clipchamp desktop app from app version 3.x for Windows 10 and Windows 11 is introducing support for logins with Azure Active Directory/Entra ID accounts. This means that your users can access Clipchamp’s work version through the desktop app in addition to accessing Clipchamp in Microsoft Edge or Chrome. Until this rollout,…