Friday, 18 September 2026

The article updates navigation and steps for email notifications, server or service deletion, and role-based access control, with new screenshots.

The documentation now describes the AD FS service overview, updated alert filtering and details, and the revised Usage Analytics experience with time-range controls. Screenshots and metadata were also refreshed.

The guide now uses the Microsoft Entra Connect Health Sync errors area to access notification settings, review Global Administrator and custom recipients, and export recorded sync errors as a CSV from the command bar.

The page now explains selecting an alert row to view its details, including detection times, affected servers, resolution guidance, and related documentation. It also replaces the alert screenshot and improves image descriptions.

The documentation now notes that the AD FS Risky IP report is being deprecated and links to the Risky IP report workbook. It also updates portal navigation, export handling, notification settings, and threshold guidance.

The guide now documents the updated service overview, alert details and search, domain controller filtering and column options, replication error details, and 24-hour authentication performance charts.

The page now reflects the Sync services overview, updated alert and monitoring workflows, revised settings instructions, and expanded sync-error filtering, details, and CSV export guidance.

The August row on the SLA performance reference page now shows 99.999% in the previously blank final metric column.

Microsoft is retiring SMS first-factor sign-in for Microsoft Entra ID workforce tenants worldwide starting February 1, 2027, to enhance security. Organizations must identify affected users, migrate them to phishing-resistant methods like passkeys, and update policies to avoid sign-in disruptions and comply with new requirements.

The article now documents the guided workflow for duplicate-attribute errors, including finding affected objects, opening Error Details, using Troubleshoot, reviewing proposed resolutions, and applying supported fixes. Status descriptions and diagnostic images were also updated.

The overview describes access drift, account discovery, access package drift detection, and enforcement and remediation approaches for aligning resource access with governance policies.

The documentation adds access package drift reporting for groups and enterprise applications, including detection, remediation, export, roles, licensing, refresh timing, and limitations. The reports are in preview.