Merill Fernando

Most VPN migrations fail before they even start.

Not because of technology.

Because of approach.

In our latest podcast, remote access expert Richard Hicks shares something interesting:
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically 👏.

No IT config needed. 🔥

3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
⚠️ Warn → 🚫 Block → 🗑️ Wipe

Let your help desk and security teams know.

🔗 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/jailbreak-root-detection-in-microsoft-authenticator-9f0431bd-675a-4f2d-b8fb-7acd18deaadc

👋 Hey folks, I published a new AI skill for the Microsoft 365 Graph API 🤩

Your AI agent is hallucinating Microsoft Graph API that don't exist.

Not because it's bad → because it was trained before those APIs shipped.

The Graph API has 27,700 APIs and updates weekly.

Wow, this is so cool 😍!

Jukka Niiranen just shared this infographic he generated based of the Entra Chat podcast episode with Ewelina Paczkowska and Daniel Bradley.

https://entra.news/p/microsoft-is-auto-enabling-passkeys

We just sent out this week's Entra newsletter.

Get the latest at https://entra.news/p/entra-news-138-this-week-in-microsoft

We just gave away our Microsoft Entra masterclass labs.

For free.

📋 Full hands-on governance.
🔑 Privileged access.
🤖 Agent ID.
🛡️ Security hardening.

And in this podcast, we walk you through exactly how to use it.

If you work with Entra ID… this levels you up.

https://entra.chat

So much fun running a 7 hour masterclass on Entra at ExpertsLiveDK with these awesome peeps Thomas Naunheim, Pim Jacobs, Jan Vidar Elven and Klaus Bierschenk.

We had over 120 folks joining us for the dep dives and hands on labs.
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40,000 devices.
Migrated to Entra Join.
In 9 months.
15 person team.

No third-party tools.

Still fully AD-joined in 2026?

You’re running out of excuses.

Here’s how they did it 👇

https://entra.news/p/they-migrated-40000-devices-to-entra

Your PowerShell is probably full of stale Az modules.

I just fixed that.

You can now uninstall and clean up all Az modules in one go! Plus there’s a new Uninstall-All cmdlet that removes a stack of Microsoft modules safely.

Stop fighting version conflicts 🤩

Get it 👉 https://uninstall-graph.merill.net/

📢 This week's Entra newsletter is out.

Get it at https://entra.news

Microsoft is auto-enabling passkeys in March 2026.

No opt-in required.

If you don’t configure it first… your tenant gets the defaults.

We break down:
• Passkey profiles
• Conditional Access impact
• App deactivation
• Hybrid hard match protection

👇 Watch @ https://entra.chat

❤️ this post from @12knocksinna@bird.makeup comparing Maester with the new Universal Tenant Configuration Management

If you use Maester and have questions on whether you need UTCM or if one replaces the other. Tony answers all your questions.

On top of this I've been thinking up ideas to improve Maester by using the new UTCM APIs for new kinds of tests that were not possible before.

https://office365itpros.com/2026/02/10/maester-and-utcm/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maester-and-utcm