Some (not so) recent improvements with Lifecycle Workflows in Entra

Back in 2023, Microsoft released the Lifecycle workflow feature, which we covered in this article. Lifecycle workflows are one of the most impactful non-security related features we’ve gotten in the past few years, plus the fact that Microsoft released it with Graph API support from the get go made me …

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Reporting on unlicensed OneDrive (for Business) accounts in Microsoft 365

Last year, Microsoft announced plans to start charging tenants for data stored in unlicensed OneDrives, that is drives that belong to unlicensed Microsoft 365 users. Unlike Exchange Online, where inactive mailboxes provide you with essentially free retention for the duration of any hold/policies assigned to the user, the functionality to …

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Creating a Conditional access policy with Authentication strength control programmatically

I’ve seen a few questions lately on how to programmatically create a Conditional Access policy with Authentication strength  as one of the “grant” controls. For some reason, the documentation doesn’t directly address this scenario, and in turn people seem to get confused, when in fact, it’s rather simple. So in this …

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Microsoft adds more granular permissions for working with user objects via the Graph API

Just before Christmas 2024, Microsoft released a set of new, more granular Graph API permissions to address some of the most common user-related scenarios. It is the type of change I’d expect to read about in a blog article or something, but for some reason it was released without much …

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