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The Zero-Trust Edge is Getting Sharper: What Admins Need to Know for Entra in Summer 2026

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Do you use Connect Sync to ensure the flow between your users on-premise is seamless? Well, if you didn't know, that seamlessness is about to have the plug pulled in Summer 2026. What does this mean? How do you prepare? In this article, I'll chat about this and what this means for organizations using Connect Sync to manage hybrid identities. What's Happening? Microsoft is tightening the screws. Cloud Sync will become the default strategic direction towards managing hybrid identities, and Connect Sync will be moving towards a reduced "legacy-only" role. While this isn't a hard cutoff, this signals the end of the Connect Sync service and it is important that organizations start to make the shift now to avoid the inevitable enforcement down the road. Cloud Sync will become the secure by default engine, with Microsoft expecting organizations to adopt this baseline sooner rather than later. Albeit this will not be a complete cutover just yet, administrators will n...
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Building Custom Sign-In Portals with Custom Branding Themes in Entra

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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...
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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....
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