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Alex Weinert on 03-03-2021 09:00 AM

Temporary Access Pass is now in public preview. Here's why we love it and you should too!

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 03-02-2021 06:00 AM

Temporary Access Pass in Azure Active Directory is now in public preview!

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 03-02-2021 06:00 AM

The milestone you’ve all been waiting for.

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 03-01-2021 03:00 PM

We're excited to be joining you virtually at Microsoft Ignite once again and sharing several exciting Azure AD announcem...

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Maria_Puertas_Calvo on 03-01-2021 09:00 AM

Learn how passwordless authentication can dramatically reduce the risk of phishing attacks against your organization.

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Alex Weinert on 02-26-2021 02:30 PM

Learn how the Authenticator app allows you to sign in using biometrics.

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TarekD on 02-25-2021 04:29 PM

Since we announced our Public Preview of passwordless credential management, we have met with hundreds of customers to d...

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Sue Bohn on 02-25-2021 09:00 AM

Find out how global IAM systems integrator Wipro unified customers’ B2B and B2C access using Azure AD External Identitie...

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Pamela Dingle on 02-24-2021 10:49 AM

Microsoft’s identity team kicks off a new series on 10 reasons to love passwordless authentication by praising the flexi...

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nadimabdo on 02-24-2021 09:00 AM

Starting May 25, 2021, the SLA for Azure AD B2C will be updated to 99.99% uptime for user authentication.

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Sue Bohn on 02-23-2021 09:00 AM

ServiceNow is currently the top-ranked application by usage with Azure Active Directory. Many customers want deploy, con...

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Sue Bohn on 02-22-2021 03:30 PM

In this post, Sue Bohn continues the series by sharing another benefit of passwordless.

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 02-19-2021 09:00 AM

GA of user-based collections in Azure AD My Apps and new risk detections in Azure AD Identity Protection

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 02-18-2021 08:50 PM

Ankur Patel shares some of our learnings and future directions based on our efforts to incubate Blockchain/distributed l...

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Sue Bohn on 02-11-2021 10:53 AM

In a study by one of our passwordless partners, the average user spends more than 12 minutes each day entering or resett...

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Alex Weinert on 02-09-2021 12:00 PM

Learn how biometrics and passwordless are a dream combination in the third part of our reasons to love passwordless seri...

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Sue Bohn on 02-05-2021 03:00 PM

Learn how using passwordless authentication helps you adhere to NIST Authentication Assurance Levels (AAL) and achieve a...

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 02-05-2021 09:00 AM

Microsoft Authenticator can now autofill your passwords on your iOS and Android devices!

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 02-03-2021 11:21 AM

Azure AD Connect cloud sync is now generally available, and classic sync has new performance boosts

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 02-01-2021 09:00 AM

Search, Sort and Filter for Conditional Access is now in public preview.

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 01-28-2021 09:00 AM

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 01-13-2021 12:40 PM

Don't miss out on this announcement on the Microsoft Security Blog!

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 01-13-2021 09:00 AM

You can now enable Azure AD access reviews for your guest users across all Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups in y...

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 01-04-2021 09:00 AM

B2B collaboration via email based one-time passcode is now generally available.

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Alex Weinert on 12-22-2020 01:42 PM

In the interest of helping customers concerned about the Solorigate attacks we are publishing a new workbook in the Azur...

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Alex Weinert on 12-21-2020 11:46 AM

In this document, we are sharing what we know about the Solorigate (https://aka.ms/solorigate) attacks from an Identity ...

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Alex Weinert on 12-18-2020 04:01 PM

Learn to protect your Microsoft 365 cloud environment from on-premises compromise.

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nadimabdo on 12-18-2020 09:00 AM

Microsoft guarantees 99.99% uptime for Azure AD to provide stable and reliable access for all your apps.

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Alex Simons (AZURE) on 12-17-2020 01:00 PM

My Apps users can now create their own app collections directly within the My Apps portal.

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Maria_Puertas_Calvo on 12-16-2020 10:30 AM

We just released a re-design on the real-time machine learning compromise prevention system for Azure AD.

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in Passwordless authentication is now generally available! on 03-03-2021

Hi @Mlawton40 , You can now use FIDO keys to do PIN reset, so no passwords needed there. Being able to use a temporary access pass there is also on the roadmap. As for removing password entry from Windows, we're still a ways from making that a smooth, seamless experience, but that's why we call this...

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in Temporary Access Pass is now in public preview on 03-03-2021

@Chris_Clark_Netrix - you can issue Temporary Access Pass for cloud and federated accounts. If a federated user has a valid pass, they will be able to use it for cloud authentication and register a passwordless method. From that point on, the user can be federated but if using passwordless method - ...

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in Temporary Access Pass is now in public preview on 03-03-2021

Sorry, I phrased that wrong. @Inbar Cizer Kobrinsky Does this only work for Azure AD cloud only accounts or can it work with AD Synced accounts as well?

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in Passwordless authentication is now generally available! on 03-03-2021

@Emin Huseynov - Yes, if the user have signed in to Azure AD with Temporary Access Pass, in the Security Info page they can go and register FIDO2 key. Please see more details here: Configure a Temporary Access Pass in Azure AD to register Passwordless authentication methods | Microsoft Docs

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in Temporary Access Pass is now in public preview on 03-03-2021

Hi @Chris_Clark_Netrix - If I understand correctly you are asking about scoping to users and groups - the answer is that you can scope the policy to any group.

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