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Building Custom Sign-In Portals with Custom Branding Themes in Entra

So, if you have multiple applications within your tenant and want to spruce up how users authenticate, then I have a solution for you! I came across this in the latest Entra Community Newsletter that was just released, which allows for administrators to create custom sign-in portals for any app registration in their tenant. Why does this matter and how can you use it? Stick around and I'll tell you how in this latest article. Why This Matters Say for instance you have a cyber range like me, in which you have multiple users accessing various applications from within your tenant. You may desire to have a unique login page for said users that will look different from what your usual portal looks like, allowing you to separate the two. This where such a feature can come in very handy. From a security perspective as well, you may also desire to display additional information or another Terms of Use link from within the sign-in portal. For my range, I have a different set of conditions t...

Tenant Governance in Microsoft Entra is here!

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If you’ve been following the Microsoft Entra Community, you’re probably familiar with the monthly Engineering Connect letters on LinkedIn. In the most recent edition, one feature in particular caught my attention: Tenant Governance . Always on the lookout for new capabilities to test—and eager for better ways to manage both my production tenant and my cyber range tenant—I decided to dig in. I’m very glad I did. In this issue of my newsletter, I’m giving you a full deep dive into Tenant Governance and how it works. What is Tenant Governance? Tenant Governance is a preview feature in Microsoft Entra ID that helps you discover and manage related tenants based on shared signals between a parent tenant and external or child tenants. These signals include: Sign‑ins Multitenant application usage Other telemetry that indicates interaction When Entra detects that your tenant has interacted with another tenant, it can surface that tenant as “related” and allow you to request governance over it....