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Upcoming Conditional Access change: Improved enforcement for policies with resource exclusions

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Swaroop Krishnamurthy
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Jan 28, 2026

We’re strengthening how Microsoft Entra Conditional Access is enforced for a narrow set of authentication flows to improve your security posture.

In alignment with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative, we are taking the following proactive security measures for defense-in-depth. Please review the changes and take any required actions to prepar...
Updated Jan 28, 2026
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Rafal_Fitt
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Jan 29, 2026

You can identify applications affected by this enforcement change

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-cloud-apps?tabs=powershell#how-to-identify-applications-affected-by-the-low-privilege-scope-enforcement-change