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Microsoft Entra daily update

What changed on this day

36 changes were tracked across 5 Microsoft Entra products. The leading updates include Migrate from DirectAccess to Microsoft Entra Private Access; Migrate from DirectAccess to Microsoft Entra Private Access; Prepare Converted Groups.

36 updates

Fundamentals

3

General

3

Microsoft identity platform

2

Security

2

Architecture

1

Recoverability Overview

Updated

- Use a least privilege model. Ensure that each member of your team has the least privileges necessary to complete their usual tasks. Require a process to escalate privileges for more unusual tasks.

Developer

1

Provisioning

1

Standards

1

Governance

3

General

6

Bulk invite B2B users

Updated

Learn how to bulk invite B2B collaboration users in Microsoft Entra External ID. Follow the steps to prepare a CSV file, upload it, and verify guest users in the directory.

Use Microsoft accounts

Updated

Enable your external business partners and guest users to use their Microsoft account (MSA) to sign in to your apps for B2B collaboration.

Use Microsoft Entra accounts

Updated

Enable your external business partners and guest users to use their Microsoft Entra work or school accounts to sign in to your apps for B2B collaboration.

Cross-cloud settings

Updated

Enable secure cross-cloud B2B collaboration between organizations in different sovereign (national) Microsoft Azure clouds by configuring Microsoft cloud settings.

Authentication

3

Email one-time passcode authentication

Updated

Learn how to enable and use email one-time passcode authentication for B2B guest users in Microsoft Entra External ID. This feature provides a seamless fallback authentication method for sign-in.

Define custom attributes

Updated

Learn how to create and define new custom attributes to be collected from users during sign-up and sign-in.

Provisioning

3

Fundamentals

1

Governance

1

Microsoft identity platform

1

Standards

1

Identity providers for external tenants

Updated

Learn sign-in and MFA options for customer identity and access management (CIAM), including email, one-time passcodes, social providers, SAML/WS-Fed, and OIDC.

General

1

Monitoring

1

Migrate from DirectAccess to Microsoft Entra Private Access

Updated

DirectAccess provides remote connectivity to internal resources but relies on IPv6 transition technologies, requires domain-joined Windows Enterprise clients, and grants full network-level access once connected. However, these architectural constraints don't meet the needs of modern hybrid and cloud-first environments.

General

1

How to configure Global Secure Access threat intelligence

Updated

- You must disable Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS (Secure DNS) to tunnel network traffic. Use the rules of the fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) in the traffic forwarding profile. For more information, see [Configure the DNS client to support DoH](/windows-server/networking/dns/doh-client-support#configure-the-dns-client-to-support-doh).