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The Future of Identity: Self-Service Account Recovery (Preview) in Microsoft Entra

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Farooque
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Mar 05, 2026
In the modern enterprise, the "Help Desk" is paradoxically both a vital resource and a massive security liability. As organizations move toward phishing-resistant, passwordless environments using pas...
Published Mar 05, 2026
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john66571
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Mar 05, 2026

Great news!
Hopefully we will see integration in EU with the E-identity being enrolled in most EU countries (MajoID in Poland, BankID in Sweden etc).

With that said, i was a little mislead at first thinking it was 1-2-3 guide on how the flow works, but its actually a "before" and "after" scenario 1-3 = needs to be set up and rolled out in environment (and user has to onboard) before u can even attempt step 4-5 (or device is lost). Makes sense! :)  For some reason my silly brain thought it was a technical walk-through of the recovery only 😅.
Great stuff and once again, hopefully we will see established personal ID's used by governments and banks in EU populating the list to! Its even more relevant now with the current world events about storing peoples id's (hello discord).