Merill Fernando 💚
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🦋 Introducing bluesky.ms 👏 = A crowdsourced database of anyone and everyone in the Microsoft community on Bluesky.

👉 Add yourself and anyone you know today 👈

🫂 All are welcome.

This is my v1, I'll add options to directly follow from the site itself but first 👇

LET'S FILL IT UP! 🙏
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Use this page to search for the Microsoft community on bluesky.ms.
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Here's an easy way to remember how to create an OIDC vs SAML app in Entra.

Bookmark this 💡
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Thanks to everyone who joined for the Entra AMA. Here's a sneak peak

#entraid #ama #securityai
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Have you checked out this week's Entra.News?

Get the latest at entra.news/p/entra-n...
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Jas Suri, Gayan Randeny & I had so much fun recording this episode just yesterday at the Redmond campus.

Gayan and Jas are heavy weights in the Entra consumer space and have helped bring online hundreds of millions of users to AAD B2C and Entra External ID.

Check it out at https://entra.chat
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Hey folks, here's a lucky opportunity to spend an hour with some brilliant Entra minds.

Join me for a live AMA 🎙️ with the Entra architecture team!

Bring all your hard questions or just listen in to a fun chat.

Register at aka.ms/entra/ama

Want to warm us up? Post your questions 👇
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We just sent out this week's Entra news.

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🚀 How its improved error handling prevents a single bad entry from failing an entire job.

If you manage users, groups, or devices at scale, this is an episode you don't want to miss.

Listen to the full episode
Microsoft's Secret Weapon for M365 Admins: A 10x Faster Bulk Operations Tool
Discover the completely rebuilt Bulk Operations feature in the Microsoft Entra admin portal!
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🚀 The incredible 10x+ performance boost over the legacy version.

🚀 New capabilities like customizing which columns you export in a CSV – no more fixed lists!

🚀 A huge quality-of-life update: you can now add group members using their UPN, not just their Object ID.
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On the latest episode of Entra Chat, I spoke with Yanyan Ju and Sweta Kumari, the Engineering Manager and Product Manager from the Entra UI team who worked on this feature. We dove deep into what makes this new tool so powerful.

We discussed:
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Microsoft has completely re-engineered the Bulk Operations feature in Microsoft Entra, and the results are a 'insane' for IT admins.

This isn't just a minor update - it's a ground-up rebuild focused on performance, scale, and reliability.
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Ever started a bulk user export or PowerShell script to download all the users, gone for coffee, and come back only to find it still running (or worse timed out)? We've all been there.

What if you could export 1.3 million groups in under 10 minutes?

It's now possible.
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A thing I helped launch is in here. That's so cool #CyberDrain
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Good stuff Brian. Love it!
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We just sent out this week's Entra newsletter

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📖 From Dispensing Pills to Dismantling Cyber Threats: One Woman's Epic Pivot

In 2009, @IAMERICAbooted was ordering drugs with shared passwords—fast-forward to 2022, and she's pen-testing Azure tenants like a boss.
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We cover

✅ Licensing tiers (P2 vs. ID Governance)
✅ Lifecycle workflows for guests 🧬
✅ Sponsor-based reviews
➕ Tips on auto-removing inactive guests

🔺 Pro tip: Set up access reviews quarterly for guests to keep your tenant healthy.
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Did you know many tenants have 2-4x more guests than employees? 😲

And without proper governance, that's a massive security blind spot!

Tune into the latest Entra.Chat episode where Jeremy Conley from Microsoft breaks down guest identity governance.