Microsoft Authenticator App’s number matching is Generally Available! Microsoft will start enabling this critical security feature for all users of the Microsoft Authenticator app.
Identity Service
Updated December 27, 2022: We are providing additional guidance for your information: After December 10, admins can turn off account linking using PowerShell script (outlined below). After January 17, the toggle to enable or disable the feature will be available in Microsoft 365 Admin portal Settings page. Until then, please use the PowerShell script. Microsoft …
Beginning September 15, 2023, the Microsoft Graph service (graph.microsoft.com) will enable HTTP version 2 (HTTP/2) in addition to HTTP/1.1. for API requests.
What are machine identities? Authentication is the first step to keeping your data secure by restricting access to sensitive resources. Users are authenticated via various measures such as passwords, biometric authentication, and 2FA before they gain access to organizational resources. In the same way, machines also need to be authenticated. Any machine in an organization, …
Temporary Access Pass (TAP) is now generally available. TAP can be used to securely register passwordless methods such as Phone Sign-in, phishing resistant methods such as FIDO2, and even assist in Windows onboarding (AADJ and WHFB). TAP also makes recovery easier when a user has lost or forgotten their strong authentication methods and needs to …
This feature will help you better manage group memberships by allowing you to build dynamic Azure AD Security Groups and Microsoft 365 groups based on other groups. For example, you can now create Dynamic-Group-A with members of Group-X and Group-Y. The groups that define the membership of the dynamic group can be any group type …
Updated January 5, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated September 26, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated August 30, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated June 16, 2022: We have updated …
Updated May 26, 2022: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience. When using Microsoft 365 and Security groups, emails are sent to users in the following scenarios: Email sent to group owner when a user requests to join their group Email sent to requestor when group owner …
Updated July 13, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Today, there are several user attributes that are considered sensitive, and we will be simplifying this model. Some rely on Global Admins (GA) to be able to manage them for all users (admins and non-admins). Others don’t have a …
In April 2020, the combined security information registration experience for registering both multifactor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR) was released for you to opt in. Upcoming, we will be making the new combined security information registration experience the default for all tenants. Note: This change will not impact you if your tenant was …
Updated September 26, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated August 30, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated June 16, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated May 24, 2022: We have updated …
Updated March 15, 2022: Microsoft have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your feedback. Microsoft will not retire the Azure AD Graph API on June 30, 2022. Listening closely to your feedback about the challenges of migrating such a critical dependency, Microsoft are delaying the retirement date through at least the …
