What's New in Conditional Access: Templates and a New Overview Available

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Fresh news in the Microsoft Entra ID realm: templates and a brand new overview are now publicly available. Let’s start with the templates.

Template

Conditional Access policies are a powerful tool that offers a high degree of customization and granularity. That’s why it can sometimes be less intuitive to know where to begin when it comes to implementing a particular policy for a specific situation.

The availability of templates helps in this regard by providing ready-to-use tools for specific situations, making it easier to implement a conditional access criterion.

Templates will be organized by scenario (currently, there are five) and will contain pre-configured settings based on the situation. Below is an example of a “Protect Administrator” scenario.

Example of Entra Conditional Access template

Of course, this is just a helpful starting point and cannot replace a thorough analysis of your own environment.

With that said, let’s move on to the next update: a new overview page!

New Overview

The new Conditional Access landing page leads to the fresh overview, which includes even more useful information:

  • Information on sign-ins not protected by conditional access
  • A clearer view to identify non-compliant devices
  • The top 10 most accessed cloud apps without conditional access
  • Plus, other enticing information :)

An example of sign-ins not covered by conditional access.

Example of a report on sign-ins not covered by conditional access

Further reading material

For those of you hungry for documentation, here’s some material with a late-summer scent:

As always, I’ll try out these new features as soon as possible and provide you with updates here on the blog, on my YouTube channel, and on my social media channels. I look forward to discussing these innovations with you. Do you think they can be useful? If so, how? See you soon!

Your IT Specialist, Riccardo