Identity & Access Management

Defender for Identity Improves Delegation with Scoped Access October 31, 2025 Scoped access, a new Defender feature, offers the ability to constrain which Active Directory domains...more Entra ID Protects Key Identities with Restricted Management October 31, 2025 Restricted management administrative units can help organizations improve security and compliance while enhancing logging and auditing. Organizations...more Understanding Dynamic Membership for Entra ID Groups Updated: October 19, 2025 Entra ID supports dynamic membership for users and devices in some types of groups. The...more Understanding Microsoft 365 Groups Updated: October 19, 2025 Microsoft 365 groups simplify definition of which users can collaborate with each other and the...more Understanding Entra ID Administrative Units Updated: October 19, 2025 Entra ID administrative units enable delegated management of users and groups within a single Entra...more What Tools Can Help Me Deploy and Manage Conditional Access? October 5, 2025 Conditional access (CA) policies within Microsoft 365 are complex to create and troubleshoot. A small set of...more Understanding Microsoft’s Licensing for Entra ID Governance for External Users August 2, 2025 Entra ID Governance can now be licensed for management of external users. The licensing model...more AAD B2C: Here Today, Gone Eventually Updated: July 9, 2025 Azure Active Directory B2C was designed to help organizations offer their end users easy sign-in...more Understanding Entra Global Secure Access June 28, 2025 Entra Global Secure Access simplifies and secures both remote access and Web access and enables...more Identity Manager: Start Planning Replacement Options Now Updated: June 13, 2025 Microsoft Identity Manager is set for retirement in 2029, and no direct replacement is expected....more Protected Actions Help Keep Entra ID Secure June 7, 2025 Protected actions offer a final conditional access check before administrators can make core changes to...more Microsoft Entra: The Collected Services Updated: May 27, 2025 Entra is a family of services to help organizations manage identities and access to resources....more What Is Advanced Data Residency? Updated: April 14, 2025 Advanced Data Residency ensures that most Microsoft 365 data resides in the correct region. ADR...more Passkeys Could Help Organizations Go Password-Free Updated: March 24, 2025 Passkeys are local cryptographic keys stored securely on a user’s device, such as a mobile...more IT Planning Needed for Passkey Support and Adoption Updated: February 24, 2025 Passkeys offer more secure access to applications than user-created passwords, while also effectively eliminating phishing....more Entra ID License Utilization Insights: A Work in Progress Updated: November 16, 2024 A new dashboard in development by Microsoft, Entra ID License Utilization Insights, could help provide...more

  Product Reference Microsoft 365 Groups  Microsoft 365 Groups are a special type of Entra ID user group that grants access...more   Product Reference Entra ID Entra ID is a multitenant identity and access management (IAM) service hosted by Microsoft. The...more   Product Reference Intune Intune is a Microsoft-hosted service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and application management for...more   Licensing Reference Entra External ID An Entra ID feature that allows external users to use their own credentials to sign...more   Licensing Reference Azure Active Directory   Licensing Reference Azure Active Directory B2B   Licensing Reference Entra ID An online service that provides identity and access management for Microsoft-hosted services such as Microsoft...more   Licensing Reference AAD

Security, Compliance, and Identity Management Roadmap

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