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I experienced an interesting issue the other day. A user was being repeatedly prompted to register his authentication details, and ending up in a redirect loop between the “proofup” page and the login one. Here’s the most interesting part – requiring the user to re-register for MFA allowed him to …
Continue readingThe strange case of a login loop caused by phantom “proofup” requirements
Few years back, Microsoft released a set of new policy objects, allowing us to impose restrictions on the credentials used for service principal and application objects. In a nutshell, an application management policy can be used to control the type of credentials that can be configured for any given SP/application …
Continue readingApplication management policies add support for Identifier URIs restrictions
Did you know that the legacy MFA settings have been “ported” to the Entra Admin portal? Not only you can access and manage them therein, but you can also take advantage of this integration in order to enable programmatic access to said settings. Read the article to find out how! …
Continue readingLegacy MFA settings in the Entra portal and how to control them programmatically
A question over at Q&A highlighted some changes in the way Microsoft is generating Entra audit log records for license operations. We have talked about issues surrounding this process a lot in the past, for example in this article over at Practical 365. Apart from missing entries, a common pain …
Continue reading“Sequence” events in the Entra Audit log and how to work with them
A short article on how to use the Graph API methods or the corresponding Graph SDK for PowerShell cmdlets to hard-match on-premises user object against their Entra ID counterparts. …
Continue readingHow to hard-match Entra ID users via the Graph API or the Graph SDK for PowerShell