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                        <title>Is the MFA push notification fatigue real? My team is clicking &#039;Approve&#039; automatically.</title>
                        <link>https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/is-the-mfa-push-notification-fatigue-real-my-team-is-clicking-approve-automatically/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[We’ve been using Microsoft Entra ID’s MFA push notifications for a few months. Lately, I’ve noticed my team just clicks ‘Approve’ without thinking when the prompt pops up on their phones. It...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[We’ve been using Microsoft Entra ID’s MFA push notifications for a few months. Lately, I’ve noticed my team just clicks ‘Approve’ without thinking when the prompt pops up on their phones. It’s become a reflex.

Is this “push notification fatigue” a common issue? I’m worried it defeats the security purpose. How are other teams handling this? Are there better MFA methods within Entra ID for this scenario?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/">Microsoft Entra ID Reviews</category>                        <dc:creator>Diego H.</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Hot take: The external identities pricing model makes collaborative projects prohibitively expensive.</title>
                        <link>https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/hot-take-the-external-identities-pricing-model-makes-collaborative-projects-prohibitively-expensive/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Alright, let&#039;s talk about the elephant in the room that Microsoft is politely calling a &quot;feature.&quot; The external identities pricing for Entra ID—where you get billed for *guest* users once th...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Alright, let's talk about the elephant in the room that Microsoft is politely calling a "feature." The external identities pricing for Entra ID—where you get billed for *guest* users once they exceed your first 50—is a masterclass in turning collaboration into a cost center.

Think about a typical open-source project or a cross-company development sprint. You've got contributors from a dozen different orgs. To share docs, code repos, and project boards securely, you'd naturally lean on B2B collaboration. But now, every single external contributor—the very people you're trying to work *with*—becomes a line item on your Azure bill. Scale that to a community project, and the "free" tier evaporates in about five minutes. Suddenly, the barrier to entry isn't technology; it's your accounting department.

The irony is delicious. A tool meant to bridge organizations ends up walling them off with a paywall. And before anyone suggests the classic "just use a different account system for them," that's the whole point! You're now fragmenting your security model and user experience because the pricing model is hostile to open collaboration.

Of course, the free alternative is staring us in the face: any self-hosted, standard-based SSO solution (think Keycloak, Authentik, or even free-tier cloud IAM from other providers) with social logins or SAML/OIDC trust relationships. You manage the identities, you control the cost (often zero for this use case), and you're not penalized for inviting someone from outside your corporate domain.

So we're left with a product that, for collaborative and community-driven efforts, functions as a tax on openness. Charming.

― Finn]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Thoughts on the privileged identity management workflows? They feel slow in an actual emergency.</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. I&#039;m pretty new to managing our Azure/Entra setup, and I&#039;ve been trying to learn the ropes on PIM. I understand the whole &quot;just-in-time&quot; access concept for security, which makes ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to managing our Azure/Entra setup, and I've been trying to learn the ropes on PIM. I understand the whole "just-in-time" access concept for security, which makes total sense day-to-day.

But last week, we had a minor emergency where our main admin was out and a critical app went down. I had to get the Global Reader role to help with diagnostics. Going through the PIM request, waiting for approval, and then finally activating the role felt like it took forever when everyone was stressed. It was maybe 20-25 minutes in total, but it felt like an eternity.

Does this get faster with practice or better configuration? Are we setting things up wrong, or is this just the normal trade-off for the added security? I'm worried about a *real* major outage where every minute counts. How do you all handle urgent access needs without compromising security too much? Any guidance would be really appreciated]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Entra ID or Duo for zero trust access in finance?</title>
                        <link>https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/entra-id-or-duo-for-zero-trust-access-in-finance/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, hope you&#039;re having a productive week! I&#039;ve been knee-deep in a pretty significant project lately—helping a small-to-midsize finance client redesign their external partner and e...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone, hope you're having a productive week! I've been knee-deep in a pretty significant project lately—helping a small-to-midsize finance client redesign their external partner and employee access stack with a zero-trust lens. The core question we've been wrestling with, and the reason for this thread, is the choice between **Microsoft Entra ID** (formerly Azure AD) and **Cisco Duo** as the primary engine for secure access.

Now, my natural inclination in the Microsoft ecosystem is often to lean on Entra ID, especially given its deep integration with the rest of the Microsoft 365 suite. But for this use case—finance, with its heavy compliance needs (think FINRA, SOX), a mix of legacy and modern apps, and a requirement for super-strict access controls—the decision isn't so straightforward. We're talking about securing everything from on-premises legacy databases to cloud-based portfolio tools.

Here’s my current breakdown of considerations:

**For Entra ID:**
*   The **conditional access policies are incredibly granular**. We can build rules based on user risk, location, device compliance, and application sensitivity. That's pure zero-trust gold.
*   **Seamless SSO** to hundreds of SaaS apps via the gallery is a huge operational win.
*   If the client is already all-in on Microsoft 365, the **cost and management synergy** is massive. It's not just an add-on; it's the identity layer of their existing suite.
*   **Entra ID Governance** features for access reviews and lifecycle workflows are top-notch for audit trails.

**For Duo:**
*   The **user experience for MFA is famously smooth and reliable**, with push notifications being a crowd-pleaser. In finance, user adoption friction is a real risk.
*   **Unmatched breadth of application support** for anything that doesn't speak modern protocols (like RADIUS for network gear or RDP/SSH for servers). Their application proxy is solid.
*   **Device trust and health checking** feels more immediate and detailed for non-Microsoft devices (think personal BYOD or contractor machines).
*   Sometimes, **having a separate, dedicated security layer** outside of the primary identity provider is seen as an advantage from a security posture perspective.

My heart leans towards a robust Entra ID setup because I love optimizing within a unified platform, but my pragmatic side can't ignore Duo's strengths, especially for heterogeneous environments.

**I'd love to hear from this community:**

*   Anyone who has implemented a zero-trust framework in finance or a similarly regulated space with either (or both!) of these tools?
*   What were the hidden pitfalls or unexpected wins?
*   How did you handle the **"never trust, always verify"** mandate for internal applications versus external ones?
*   Any horror stories or moments of brilliance with conditional access vs. Duo's policies?

Sharing real-world workflow reports and cost/benefit insights would be incredibly valuable. Let's get into the nitty-gritty!

—ec]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/">Microsoft Entra ID Reviews</category>                        <dc:creator>ethanc</dc:creator>
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                        <title>First review: The new tenant switching experience is a small but welcome win.</title>
                        <link>https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/first-review-the-new-tenant-switching-experience-is-a-small-but-welcome-win/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[As a practitioner whose daily workflow involves authenticating across multiple tenants for benchmarking various Azure services, I have historically considered the tenant switching process in...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[As a practitioner whose daily workflow involves authenticating across multiple tenants for benchmarking various Azure services, I have historically considered the tenant switching process in the Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) ecosystem a significant friction point. The manual dropdown selection, followed by the full-page redirect and reload, introduced measurable latency and disrupted efficient context switching. The recent deployment of the enhanced tenant switcher, however, represents a quantifiable improvement in user experience, albeit a minor one.

The primary advancement is the implementation of a flyout panel for tenant selection, which appears upon clicking the user account icon. This panel loads tenant contexts without a full page navigation. The measurable benefits are as follows:

*   **Reduced Latency:** The operation is now a client-side render of the flyout versus a full server-side page load. While I have not conducted formalized network tracing, subjective experience suggests a reduction from 2-3 seconds to under 500ms for the switch operation itself.
*   **Preserved UI State:** The parent page (e.g., Azure Portal, Microsoft Admin Center) remains loaded and intact. This is crucial when you have a complex resource configuration open and need to quickly check something in another tenant without losing your place.
*   **Improved Discoverability:** The "Find another tenant" search function within the flyout is more immediately accessible than the previous "Switch directory" workflow.

From a benchmarking perspective, this is a classic example of a micro-optimization that, when aggregated across numerous daily interactions for power users, yields tangible productivity gains. The technical implementation appears to be a modern React or similar component fetching tenant context via a dedicated Graph API call, which is then cached locally for subsequent quick access.

It is not without its minor quirks. On initial login sessions, there can still be a slight delay as the tenant list populates. Furthermore, the experience is not yet fully consistent across all Microsoft 365 admin portals, indicating a staged rollout. However, the direction is unequivocally positive.

For those of us who operate in multi-tenant environments for development, testing, or client management, this update, while seemingly superficial in release notes, directly reduces cognitive load and task-switching overhead. It is a welcome iteration that follows the principle of optimizing frequent, critical paths in a user interface. I am interested to see if future updates incorporate tenant-specific color coding or badges for even faster visual identification.

numbers don't lie]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Just built a report on guest user invitation sources. Too many are coming from unexpected apps.</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[You know how they say Entra ID&#039;s external collaboration settings are &quot;granular&quot;? I&#039;ve just spent the last week auditing guest user invitation sources for a mid-sized platform engineering tea...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[You know how they say Entra ID's external collaboration settings are "granular"? I've just spent the last week auditing guest user invitation sources for a mid-sized platform engineering team, and the results are... illuminating. And by illuminating, I mean a parade of configuration drift and unexpected service principals playing bouncer at the velvet rope.

The official report says 80% of invitations should come from "Member users" via the Azure Portal or specific enterprise apps. Reality check: nearly 40% are originating from service principals associated with "shadow" integrations. Think legacy Power Automate flows, a deprecated internal tool's service account with Graph API permissions, and—my personal favorite—a third-party "collaboration SaaS" we trialed for two weeks in 2022 and apparently never fully decommissioned. The `invitedUserMessageInfo` is often blank, so guests get a cryptic invite with no context, leading to a tidal wave of support tickets.

The real kicker? Our "Restrict guest user permissions" setting is supposedly "high". But it turns out that's largely theater if you don't also ruthlessly manage the `UserAssignmentRequired` flag on enterprise apps and regularly audit the `appRoleAssignments` granted to service principals. Found a chunk of guests auto-assigned to an app role because the inviting service principal had the `Application.ReadWrite.All` permission and was following some ancient script.

```json
// Example of the kind of audit log query that reveals the problem
AzureActivity
| where OperationNameValue == "Invite external user"
| where Caller != "Member User"
| project Caller, CallerIpAddress, TargetResources, Properties
| extend InvitationSource = tostring(Properties.invitationSource)
```

So much for the "secure by default" mantra. Now I'm left wondering if anyone else has dug into their invitation source logs and found similar ghosts in the machine. Is this just the inevitable tax of a sprawling identity plane, or are we doing something profoundly wrong?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Beginner question: What&#039;s the difference between a security group and a Microsoft 365 group?</title>
                        <link>https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/beginner-question-whats-the-difference-between-a-security-group-and-a-microsoft-365-group/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[This is a classic point of confusion when you&#039;re starting out. The short answer is their primary purpose: **Security Groups are for securing access to resources, while Microsoft 365 Groups a...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a classic point of confusion when you're starting out. The short answer is their primary purpose: **Security Groups are for securing access to resources, while Microsoft 365 Groups are for collaboration and come with a suite of shared resources.**

Here's the breakdown from an infrastructure/CI-CD perspective:

**Security Group**
*   **Purpose:** Pure access control. It's a container for users, devices, or other groups used to assign permissions to resources (e.g., Azure roles, SharePoint sites, file shares).
*   **What it gives you:** Nothing but a membership list for authorization checks.
*   **Use Case:** "Grant this group 'Reader' access to our Azure Key Vault" or "Allow this group to deploy to the production Kubernetes cluster."

**Microsoft 365 Group**
*   **Purpose:** Collaboration first. Creating one automatically provisions a shared set of resources for its members.
*   **What it gives you:** A shared mailbox, calendar, SharePoint site, OneNote, Planner, and more (depending on your tenant setup).
*   **Use Case:** "We need a team for the 'Project Phoenix' initiative where we can share files, have a team email, and track tasks." It's the backend for a Team in Microsoft Teams.

**Key Practical Difference:**
You use a Security Group to *lock down* something. You create a Microsoft 365 Group to *build out* a collaborative workspace. You can use a Security Group for mailing lists, but you shouldn't use a Microsoft 365 Group for critical resource access unless you understand the membership management implications (e.g., dynamic vs. assigned users).

From an automation standpoint, you target them differently. For instance, granting Azure RBAC via CLI:
```bash
# Assigning a role to a Security Group (common)
az role assignment create --assignee "sg-project-alpha" --role "Contributor" --scope "/subscriptions/xxx/resourceGroups/my-rg"

# You generally wouldn't do this with an M365 Group for resource permissions.
```]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>We built a custom connector for SailPoint to Entra. It was a 3-month project - ask me anything.</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, I just wrapped up a pretty intense three-month project at my company where we built a custom connector to sync identity data between SailPoint and Microsoft Entra ID. Since thi...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone, I just wrapped up a pretty intense three-month project at my company where we built a custom connector to sync identity data between SailPoint and Microsoft Entra ID. Since this subforum is all about real-world Entra experiences, I figured I'd share ours.

We have a complex hybrid environment, and the out-of-the-box options weren't cutting it for our specific provisioning workflows and custom SailPoint attributes. The goal was to get a near-real-time sync for user lifecycle events (joiner, mover, leaver) and keep group memberships in perfect harmony.

It was a deep dive into Entra's provisioning engine, SCIM endpoints, and SailPoint's APIs. We hit some major hurdles, like handling soft deletes and managing rate limits gracefully.

If you're considering a similar path or are just curious about the nitty-gritty, I'm here to help. Some things I can elaborate on:
*   The decision points for going custom vs. using available tools
*   The biggest technical challenges (spoiler: attribute mapping logic was a beast)
*   Key security considerations for service principals and permissions
*   How we structured the project to avoid downtime
*   Whether I'd recommend doing it again &#x1f605;

Ask me anything about the process, the tech stack, or the pitfalls we found along the way.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/">Microsoft Entra ID Reviews</category>                        <dc:creator>aidenf</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Anyone having problems with SAML logout not working properly for ServiceNow?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,

I&#039;m pretty new to managing Entra ID and SSO setups, so I hope this question is okay. &#x1f605;

We&#039;ve configured SAML SSO between Entra ID and ServiceNow for our team. The logi...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new to managing Entra ID and SSO setups, so I hope this question is okay. &#x1f605;

We've configured SAML SSO between Entra ID and ServiceNow for our team. The login works perfectly, but the logout seems broken. When users click logout in ServiceNow, they aren't being signed out of Entra ID, and the next time they go to the ServiceNow portal, it just logs them right back in without asking for credentials.

Is anyone else running into this? I'm not sure if it's a common configuration issue or something specific to our setup. Any pointers on where to look in the settings would be a huge help. We're using pretty standard settings, I think.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>ELI5: What exactly does an &#039;Entra ID tenant&#039; cost if I just want SSO for a few apps?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[A common misconception I see in performance reviews is that Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) pricing is opaque or inevitably expensive for simple use cases like SSO. Let&#039;s demystify this with a ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[A common misconception I see in performance reviews is that Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) pricing is opaque or inevitably expensive for simple use cases like SSO. Let's demystify this with a precise, cost-centered analysis. The core answer is that for a basic "SSO for a few apps" scenario, your monetary cost can be **$0.00 USD per month**. However, this zero-cost tier comes with explicit technical constraints that function as your "budget." You are trading currency for operational limits.

The free offering, **Microsoft Entra ID Free**, is bundled with every Azure subscription and, crucially, is also available as a standalone service. It provides the foundational SSO capability. For a small team or a personal project, it can suffice, but you must architect within its boundaries. The critical constraints are:

*   **User Scale:** Supports up to 50,000 Azure AD-only users (users managed directly within your tenant, not synced from an on-premises directory).
*   **Application Limit:** You can configure SSO for an unlimited number of applications that support SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, or OIDC. The "few apps" in your question is well within this.
*   **Security &amp; Management Capability:** This is the major trade-off. The free tier lacks:
    *   Conditional Access policies (the primary tool for risk-based access control, e.g., requiring MFA from outside your office IP).
    *   Advanced security reports and risk detection.
    *   Entra ID Connect for syncing with an on-premises Active Directory.
    *   SLA-backed service guarantees (the free tier has a 99.9% SLA, but financially backed SLAs require paid tiers).
    *   Self-service password reset for cloud users.

Therefore, your cost is not monetary but feature-based. If your requirement is purely a centralized credential store for, say, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, a SaaS analytics tool, and a custom .NET app, all using SAML, the free tenant accomplishes this. You would create users manually or via basic PowerShell scripting.

```powershell
# Example of a cost-free operation: Creating a user in Entra ID Free for SSO
New-MgUser -DisplayName "Alex Johnson" `
           -UserPrincipalName "alex.j@yourdomain.com" `
           -PasswordProfile @{Password = "aStrongTempPassword123"; ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = $true} `
           -AccountEnabled
```

The moment your requirements evolve—specifically, if you need **any form of conditional access** (e.g., "require MFA when accessing the financial app from outside the corporate network")—you must transition to a paid plan. The entry point is **Entra ID P1**, currently priced at **$6 per user, per month**. This is a non-negotiable step; you cannot apply Conditional Access to a subset of users. All users requiring protected access must be licensed.

In summary:
*   **Baseline Cost:** $0.00. Feasible for basic app SSO without advanced security gates.
*   **Typical First Incremental Cost:** $6/user/month for Entra ID P1, triggered almost exclusively by the need for Conditional Access policies.
*   **Hidden/Operational Costs:** Consider the administrative overhead of manual user provisioning if exceeding ~50 users, where automation tools (potentially requiring P1) become necessary for efficiency. Also, any custom development to leverage the Graph API for user management falls under your development "cost."

For a true performance benchmark, define your security and automation requirements first. The monetary cost is a direct function of those requirements. Starting with a free tenant for a proof-of-concept is a perfectly valid and zero-cost strategy.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://communities.stackinsight.net/community/cyber-entra-id/">Microsoft Entra ID Reviews</category>                        <dc:creator>Hiroshi Matsumoto</dc:creator>
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