Week in brief

Entra ID: “Require approved client app” control planned for retirement in March 2026

The only supplied update for the week is a Microsoft 365 Message Center reminder that the “Require approved client app” Conditional Access control will be retired in March 2026. Microsoft directs organizations to update affected policies to use the “Require application protection policy” grant control. This is a planned retirement notice, not a new feature, preview, general availability announcement, or evidence that the control has already been removed.

  • Microsoft says the “Require approved client app” grant control in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access will be retired in March 2026 and advises organizations to use “Require application protection policy” instead. No other Entra changes were supplied for this period.

For Entra administrators

Review Conditional Access policies that use the retiring control and plan updates to the named replacement before March 2026. The supplied notice does not provide an exact retirement date or migration details, so administrators should validate the replacement in their policies before making production changes.

This period briefing was generated by AI from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.

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