Entra Enterprise apps and App registrations - Global Secure Access - Conditional Access Block
I am working on a rollout for Global Secure Access and ran into an issue with Entra Enterprise apps setup in the tenant. With Global Secure Access I have a Conditional Access Policy set to Block access to All Resources excluding some resources like Intune and Defender tap required for mobile setup. When I added an administrator account which had done some Enterprise application setup and authorization for various third-party applications, those third-party applications stopped working with failed logins indicating token access issues. Upon review I found the majority of applications to be using client secret authentication with this administrator account as the authorizer. My limited knowledge of Enterprise apps leads me to believe this client secret is an application password that the third-party uses to keep generating tokens based on the authorizing account. My questions surrounding this setup and further understanding are mainly in relation to how Enterprise apps and app registrations authenticate, as well as user authentication directly. 1. How does the token authorization work? Does the application just use the client secret to authenticate as the user who authorized it to generate an access token? Why does MFA requirements and changing passwords not affect this but specific Block policy does? 2. What are best practices in relation to authorizing third-party applications? My thoughts are a dedicated account to authorize applications when needed. 3. How will this work with applications regular users use? Say a user has a digital notebook that syncs with their OneNote or a calendar app that syncs calendars between Outlook and their website. Do these applications also use client secrets with the user's token and will break when added to the GSA setup I have? Is the only way around this to authorize with an admin account for token issuance? Thank you for your time reading this and any insight you may have for any of the questions or ideas mentioned.Request to enable preview feature - Face Check with CAP
Dear Microsoft, I am on a business premium plan for my home test tenant. I cannot raise ticket nor do I have an account manager. I know this is in private preview. I would like my tenant to be enabled to test this new Verified ID feature to have "Face Check" in CAP as one of the Grant conditions. tenant id: bc85b508-0107-4472-a49c-fc8cefd4f0d7 Thank you.
Entra App Gallery required for Excel AddIn
Hi, We have an Excel Addin published to Microsoft AppSource: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200009029?tab=Overview The Excel Addin uses Entra ID to obtain an OIDC token to securely / seamlessly access MS 365 SharePoint on behalf of the user. In order to achive this the Entra ID subscription needs the TR4E application registered as an Enterprise Application / App Registration. My question is whether I need to submit the TR4E application separately to the Entra App Gallery, so it can be installed by the Entra ID admin - or will the registration in Entra ID happen automatically when a new user first tries using TR4E? I note that MS has suspended new application submissions for Entra App Gallery, which means our customers would need to manually create the Entra ID Enterprise Application (which is not a great experience). Cheers, Andrew
Disable MFA for User with certain admin roles
Hello all, we have a user with sharepoint administrator role and a self build application support manager role (the suer is allowed to create apps in Azure). We are now at a point where this user has to register an app for our helpdesk tool, but we have to remove the MFA for the registration. We excluded the user from the "MFA is mandatory for all users"-policy, the "MFA is mandatory for admins"-policy and set his MFA in the MFA-per-user setting on disabled. We have no other policy that enforces MFA for this user. Wenn we try to log in with the user (under http://www.office.com), we still get the request to register MFA Authenticator. I am aware that MS enforced MFA for admins, when they try to log in into the admin portals. Does this also apply for sharepoint admins? Does anyone have an idea, where the MFA request for this user could come from. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Erik
GSA client exclamation mark, Forwarding policy dosen't exist in registry
Good day, Have difficult time getting Entra Private Access working. Entra portal --------------- GSA > Dashboard > Device Status says : 0 have the Global Secure Access Client installed: 0.0% The client pc is entra joined and is compliant, the client user has Entra ID Suite Trail license assigned. Traffic forwarding > Private access is enabled, have Quick Access application configured for SMB access. User and group assigments is set to a group where the user resides. Microsoft traffic profile and Internet access profile = disabled (as for now i just want to make the Private acces profile working) Enterprise applications = 1 active Connectors are online with status active. Client PC ------ Event log of client pc says the understated: Error occurred while requesting a new forwarding profile: The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception.. Request Parameters: Microsoft Entra Device ID: 61ma02-9453-1277-98gz-hkdhksa3d0, Correlation vector: kdfhkshfkashdJ.0, APS URL: https://aps.globalsecureaccess.microsoft.com/api/v3/AgentSettings?os=Windows%2010&clientVersion=2.8.45.0. The client will continue working with the existing forwarding profile. GSA Advanced diagnostics: Username : empty Tenant ID : empty Forwarding profile ID: empty Client version 2.8.45.0 Health check = is green till Policy server is reachable, after that exclamation mark. https://aps.globalsecureaccess.microsoft.com/api/v3/AgentSettings?os=Windows%2010&clientVersion=2.8.45.0 if i try the above url in the browser then i get invalid request, this means that the client is able to reach the server, which means network or DNS issues are unlikely and the The SSL handshake is successful, and the certificate is valid. Need guidance as to understand why the client is not able to retreive profiles, i am using windows 11. Tried with disabling firewall too. Thanks!
Entra ID expressions for attribute mapping
Hi All, we have the following requirement. if [StatusEndEmploymentDate] is null or if its grater than today's date and city value is present the user should move to repective OU if [StatusEndEmploymentDate] is less than today's date than user should move to the staging OU. we have tried following query but there is no luck. need your help to achieve the requirement. Switch([StatusEndEmploymentDate],Switch([City],"OU=Users,DC=abc,DC=com", "Amsterdam", "OU=Users,OU=Amsterdam,DC=abc,DC=com", "Antwerp", "OU=Users,OU=Antwerp,DC=abc,DC=com", "Bengaluru", "OU=Users,OU=Bengaluru,DC=abc,DC=com", "Copenhagen", "OU=Users,OU=Copenhagen,DC=abc,DC=com"),IIF(DateDiff("d", Now(), [StatusEndEmploymentDate])>"-1",Switch([City],"OU=Users,OU=IAM,DC=abc,DC=com","Amsterdam","OU=Users,OU=Amsterdam,DC=abc,DC=com","Antwerp","OU=Users,OU=Antwerp,DC=abc,DC=com","Bengaluru","OU=Users,OU=Bengaluru,DC=abc,DC=com","Copenhagen"))
Access Package Approval automation with our Servicedesk ticketing tool
Hi Team, I am trying to automate all the access package approvals to be logged in our Service desk ticketing tool. Example: When a user requests access, once an approval request triggers from Microsoft it should also log a ticket in our ticketing tool. If the request got approved, the ticket should log this information & automatically gets closed. Our ticketing tool dev team is working on it however, they are stuck in the middle & looking to extract the necessary webhook information required for triggering actions from the Azure solution. Any input or guidance regarding webhook information supported by the Azure solution would be greatly appreciated and would assist us in progressing with the discussed requirements accordingly. Looking forward for your help to achieve this. Thanks, Garima
