Tuesday, 14 July 2026

Learn how to prepare for the retirement of Microsoft provided SMS and Voice authentication in Microsoft Entra ID and migrate users to passkeys.

Learn how to upload and host your own Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) files

Explicit Forward Proxy uses Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization to validate user access before allowing network traffic. This validation method allows for adaptive policies in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, modern credentials like passkeys, and Continuous Access Evaluation with session revocation. Classic proxy authorization methods, such as basic, digest, NTLM, or Kerberos, aren't supported.

For unmanaged devices, you can instruct users to manually enter the PAC file location in browser settings or rely on a network-provided configuration. A network-provided configuration might be Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD).

Explicit Forward Proxy is a traffic acquisition mechanism that's useful in scenarios where installation of the Global Secure Access client is difficult or not possible. Explicit Forward Proxy helps protect internet traffic when users use browsers to access resources from:

You can configure Explicit Forward Proxy (preview) to rely on the private IP addresses of devices on your network to associate authenticated users with their devices. To use HTTP header session management with Explicit Forward Proxy, you need to securely communicate the private IP address of the device to the Explicit Forward Proxy feature.

You can automatically deliver proxy settings and certificate authority trust settings in Microsoft Edge by using an Intune mobile application management (MAM) policy. The policy can take advantage of the Explicit Forward Proxy feature of Global Secure Access.