Azure Active Directory: Auto-rollout of Conditional Access policies

Starting in November 2023, Microsoft will begin automatically protecting customers with Microsoft managed Conditional Access policies. These are policies that Microsoft creates and enables in customer tenants. The following policies will be rolled out to all eligible tenants:

1. MFA for admin portals: This policy covers privileged admin roles and requires MFA when an admin signs into a Microsoft admin portal.

2. MFA for per-user MFA users: This policy covers users with per-user MFA and requires MFA for all cloud apps.

3. MFA for high-risk sign-ins: This policy covers all users and requires MFA and reauthentication for high-risk sign-ins.

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Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant synchronization

Admins will be able to automate creating, updating, and deleting B2B users across tenants within an organization.

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Azure Active Directory: Tenant Creation Lockdown

This new capability will provide admins with the ability to lock down tenant creation to decide whether they want their users to create more tenants. We have also created the Tenant Creator role, which will allow users assigned to this role to create new tenants.

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Azure Active Directory: Temporary Access Pass

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 sign in to register new authentication methods

When this will happen:

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Azure Active Directory: Customize Organizations’ Sign-In and Sign-Up Pages in Company Branding

Update the Azure AD and Microsoft 365 login experience with new Company Branding capabilities. You can apply your company’s brand guidance to authentication experiences with pre-defined templates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93320

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Azure Active Directory: Limited CSS and pre-defined layout templates

Update the Azure AD and Microsoft 365 login experience with new Company Branding capabilities. You can apply your company’s brand guidance to authentication experiences with pre-defined templates.

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Universal Print: Universal Print available for Azure tenants that reside in India

This will make Universal Print service available to Azure tenants in India. Universal Print is available in most other geographies since March 2021.
More info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/universal-print

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Azure Active Directory: Multiple Password less Phone sign-in Accounts for iOS Devices

Users can enable password less phone sign-in accounts for their iOS devices. Previously there was a limit of one password less phone sign-in account per device, but we have removed that limitation.

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Azure Active Directory: CloudKnox Permissions Management enters Public Preview

CloudKnox Permissions Management is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution that provides comprehensive visibility into permissions assigned to all identities like over-privileged workload and user identities, actions, and resources across multi-cloud infrastructures in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).  CloudKnox Permissions Management detects, automatically right-sizes, and continuously monitors unused and excessive permissions.

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Azure Active Directory: Customize SSPR, footer hyperlinks and favicon in Company Branding

Today, self-service password reset (SSPR) and footer hyperlinks direct end-users to Microsoft resources. Also, Microsoft logo is rendered in the browser tab. We’re introducing the ability to customize them and remove all references to Microsoft.

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