
Entra Chat is a weekly podcast hosted by Merill Fernando and delivers practical insights for Microsoft administrators and security professionals through conversations with identity experts who've been in the trenches. Episodes feature seasoned Entra practitioners sharing real-world deployment experiences and Microsoft Entra team members who build the features you use daily. Get the inside track on... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 77 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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At Black Hat USA 2026, Microsoft’s David Weston put three numbers on a slide that anyone still running domain controllers should sit with. The Microsoft Security Response Center went from 80 patches in February to 1,142 at the July Patch Tuesday. The... more
Microsoft starts making passkeys the default in Microsoft Entra ID on 1 September 2026, and retires Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA on 1 February 2027. Every organisation with a large, messy population now has to answer a question that has nothi... more
On 3 November 2026, the memberOf operator in Microsoft Entra dynamic membership groups stops working. Nothing errors. Nothing breaks loudly. Every dynamic group, dynamic administrative unit and entitlement management auto-assignment policy that uses ... more
Passkeys are phishing-resistant. But that resistance is enforced by your browser, which binds every authentication to the origin that requested it. Skip the browser, and the guarantee weakens.
In this episode of Entra.Chat, I spoke with Michael Graf... more
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Four episodes in, Enta.Chat is an excellent opportunity for IAM (Identity Access Management)practitioners to listen to Merill and his Guest discuss interesting, useful, informative, and practical Entra ID insights! Looking forward to many more episodes! Kudos to Merill for yet another IAM community beneficial endeavor! MM
Merill has hit the nail on the head with the content and depth of discussion in the first episode of Entra.Chat. So many security (and more specifically identity) podcasts are great to listen to however are so high level and conceptual you rarely come away with advice you can apply when practicing identity security. Sometimes they’re borderline product placement!
Merrill’s pod is choc full of practical examples you instinctively want to store away in your brain as you just know one day you wil... more
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The show centers on practical identity and security strategies for Microsoft Entra, with in-depth conversations featuring practitioners who implement or build identity solutions. Episodes frequently cover passwordless authentication, passkeys, agent identities, governance, and real-world deployment challenges across large organizations and gaming studios. Listeners can expect hands-on guidance, migration roadmaps, and governance best practices drawn from multi-tenant environments, CI/CD integrations, and enterprise-scale rollouts. A standout trait is the mix of practitioner-for-practitioner episodes, featuring engineers, security architects, and product teams who share actionable tips, pitfalls, and telemetry-driven insights for immediate u... more
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