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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
Entra ID Group-Based License Management Helps Ease Licensing Administration
Updated: October 19, 2025
Entra ID group-based license management can help organizations manage licenses for Microsoft services in a...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
Services Increasingly Expanding Beyond Microsoft 365 Suites
Updated: June 17, 2025
New tiers of several Microsoft 365 core services are quite expensive and are not available...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
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
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
Conditional Access Requires Major Licensing Commitment
Updated: October 28, 2024
Conditional access is a valuable way to protect cloud services from compromised devices or malicious...more
New License Rule for Contractor Access
Updated: August 27, 2024
Contractors and other nonemployees who access an organization’s Microsoft systems face new licensing rules in...more
Mac Users Can Benefit from Microsoft 365
Updated: August 20, 2024
Microsoft 365 suites increasingly deliver value for Mac users, possibly justifying the suite for Mac-only...more
Podcasts
Get Ready for Microsoft’s Coming Licensing Changes
August 26, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 14 · Duration - 19mBlog
May 19, 2025
Ten Takeaways from Microsoft Build 2025
by Mary Jo Foley
Updated: May 23, 2024
Microsoft clarifies (a bit) its MFA for 'all' Azure users edict
by Mary Jo Foley
Updated: July 4, 2023
Microsoft admits early June DDoS attacks impacted its cloud services (and maybe yours, as well)
by Mary Jo Foley