Some (not so) recent improvements with Lifecycle Workflows in Entra

Back in 2023, Microsoft released the Lifecycle workflow feature, which we covered in this article. Lifecycle workflows are one of the most impactful non-security related features we’ve gotten in the past few years, plus the fact that Microsoft released it with Graph API support from the get go made me …

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Creating a Conditional access policy with Authentication strength control programmatically

I’ve seen a few questions lately on how to programmatically create a Conditional Access policy with Authentication strength  as one of the “grant” controls. For some reason, the documentation doesn’t directly address this scenario, and in turn people seem to get confused, when in fact, it’s rather simple. So in this …

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Microsoft adds more granular permissions for working with user objects via the Graph API

Just before Christmas 2024, Microsoft released a set of new, more granular Graph API permissions to address some of the most common user-related scenarios. It is the type of change I’d expect to read about in a blog article or something, but for some reason it was released without much …

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How to deal with the “Migrate Service Principals from the retiring Azure AD Graph APIs to Microsoft Graph” recommendation

The “Migrate Service Principals from the retiring Azure AD Graph APIs to Microsoft Graph” Entra ID recommendation has created a bit of a stir recently, so I finally got to put an article around it. Read on to find out how to handle any of the “impacted resources” found in this recommendation, more specifically, which entries to ignore. …

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