{"id":2339,"date":"2025-05-09T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2025-05-13T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:43:11","slug":"eng-connect-feb-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/eng-connect-feb-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Joyful May!<\/h2>\n<p>Welcome to the May edition of our monthly newsletter, summarizing the latest news and developments in the exciting, ever-evolving world of Microsoft Entra.<\/p>\n<h2>What went into General Availability (GA) since April 2025?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/entra\/workload-id\/workload-identity-federation-config-app-trust-managed-identity\">Use managed identities as federated credentials for Microsoft Entra applications<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; This feature eliminates the need to store and manage client secrets or certificates when using a Microsoft Entra application to access Microsoft Azure resources across tenants. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New in Public Preview<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/entra\/identity\/authentication\/how-to-authentication-track-linkable-identifiers\">Track and investigate identity activities with linkable identifiers in Microsoft Entra<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Microsoft will standardize the linkable token identifiers and expose them in Microsoft Entra sign-in logs and in workload audit logs such as Exchange Online audit logs and Microsoft Graph activity logs. This helps security analysts and professionals track and investigate identity-related attacks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/graph\/api\/conditionalaccessroot-evaluate?view=graph-rest-beta&amp;tabs=http\">Conditional Access What If API<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Use the What If tool with the Microsoft Graph API to evaluate programmatically the applicability of Conditional Access policies in your tenant on user and Service Principal sign-ins.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New guidance and information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New guidance on how to protect against token theft and token replay: \n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/entra\/identity\/devices\/concept-tokens-microsoft-entra-id\">Understanding tokens in Microsoft Entra ID<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/entra\/identity\/devices\/protecting-tokens-microsoft-entra-id\">Protecting tokens in Microsoft Entra ID<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Stay connected and informed<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more or test out features in the Microsoft Entra portfolio, visit our\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/dev\/ms-entra\">developer center<\/a>. Make sure you subscribe to the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/devblog\/ms-entra\">Identity developer blog<\/a>\u202ffor more insights and to keep up with the latest on all things Identity. And, follow us on\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MicrosoftSecurity\/playlists\">YouTube<\/a>\u202ffor video overviews, tutorials, and deep dives.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates and developments in the world of Microsoft Entra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the May edition of our monthly newsletter, summarizing the latest news and developments in the exciting, ever-evolving world of Microsoft Entra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115019,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[16,50,4],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates","tag-entra","tag-identity","tag-security"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Welcome to the May edition of our monthly newsletter, summarizing the latest news and developments in the exciting, ever-evolving world of Microsoft Entra.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}