Identity & Access Management

Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: March 6, 2026 Copilot is an umbrella brand applied to a range of Microsoft technologies, most of which...more Six Steps from On-Premises to Full Cloud March 2, 2026 The move from on-premises Active Directory to the Microsoft-hosted Entra ID infrastructure is a gradual...more Best Practices for Preserving Data While Removing Microsoft 365 Users Updated: February 23, 2026 Offboarding employees is not an IT task; it’s a governance and risk event affecting organizational...more Understanding Entra ID Privileged Identity Management Updated: November 22, 2025 Entra ID Privileged Identity Management can help organizations manage and audit the risk posed by...more 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

  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 ID An online service that provides identity and access management for Microsoft-hosted services such as Microsoft...more   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Groups  Updated with new services supported by M365 groups   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

Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Roadmap

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