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Azure Active Directory Identity Governance – Access Reviews

November 23, 2020December 20, 2020
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Entra, Security
10 min read

In this series, we take a look at Azure Active Directory Identity Governance. This premium feature provides you with all the tools that you need to take and keep control over your (external) identities and access to roles, resources, applications, and groups. In short, Identity Governance gives you three ways to do this: Azure AD Access Reviews (review membership of groups and access to applications) (This blog post) Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (manage time-based and approval-based role activation to protect your…

A first look at Administrative Units and My Staff in Azure Active Directory

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020
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Entra, Security
11 min read

Recently, Microsoft introduced Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory. At the time of writing, this feature is in preview. Today we take a first look at how this is going to help organizations managing users and groups in Azure Active Directory. But to understand why this feature is such a big deal, we need to know what the difference is between the “classic” Active Directory and the “modern” Azure Active Directory structure. Active Directory To illustrate this, I created a…