This is the February 2025 edition of our monthly developer update, summarizing the latest news and developments in Microsoft Entra. This month, we bring you feature updates, public previews, announcements, and other important updates. Read on to learn more and make the most of Microsoft Entra.

What went Generally Available (GA) since January 2025?

• Microsoft Entra PowerShell module – This new scenario-focused PowerShell module is designed to streamline management and automation for Microsoft Entra, including efficiently managing users, groups, applications, service principals, policies, and more. This module builds upon the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and is fully interoperable with all cmdlets in the SDK. It also offers a backward compatibility option to streamline migration from the retiring AzureAD PowerShell module.

New Public Previews

• Microsoft Entra Workload ID: Flexible Federated Identity Credentials – Extend the Federated Identity Credential (FIC) model by providing the ability to use wildcard matching against certain claims, reducing the number of FICs required to manage similar scenarios. It is currently available for GitHub, GitLab, and Terraform Cloud scenarios.

News, updates, and resources

• Starting February 2025, Microsoft enters the next phase of retiring the Azure AD Graph API service, affecting new and current applications, unless action is taken. Review your tenant applications to identify those that depend on Azure AD Graph API. Take necessary actions before the cut-off date. For applications that have not migrated to Microsoft Graph APIs, an extension can allow application access to Azure AD Graph until June 30, 2025.

• MSOnline PowerShell module retirement will span from April to May 2025. By March 30, 2025, users must migrate to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK or Microsoft Entra PowerShell to avoid impact. Also, AzureAD PowerShell will not be supported after March 30, 2025. Its retirement is in July 2025 to assist the MSOnline migration. To ensure readiness for the MSOnline PowerShell retirement, temporary outage tests for tenants will occur from January to March 2025. See MSOnline and AzureAD PowerShell retirement for more information.

What’s new in Microsoft Entra?

Learn what is new with Microsoft Entra, such as the latest release notes, known issues, bug fixes, deprecation functionality, and upcoming changes. You can find releases specific for Sovereign Clouds on a dedicated release notes page.

Stay connected and informed

This blog post aims to keep you informed and engaged with the latest Microsoft Entra developments, helping you harness these new features and capabilities in your identity development journey.

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