Category: Entra ID
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Conditional Access: The Ultimate Inventory Cop
How Rogue Devices Sneak In and How to Throw Them Out The reality is that keeping a current, accurate device inventory in Microsoft Entra ID is a nightmare. Personal devices get registered during a quick Teams login, BYOD endpoints connect without MDM management, stale records sit in the directory years after a laptop was e-wasted,…
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The Zombie Endpoint: When Stale Records Refuse to Die
Last week, we looked at the classic Friday-afternoon nightmare: staring at three identical device objects in Microsoft Entra ID while trying to deploy a critical policy. We mapped out the two main control planes—Entra ID for identity and access, Intune for management—and talked about why a brute-force deletion sweep is a terrible idea, especially when…
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I’m Surrounded by a Bunch of Device Objects: Cleaning House in the Cloud Without Burning Everything Down
It’s 4:30 PM on a Friday. You’re trying to deploy a critical new Device config policy to a specific laptop, but when you type the hostname into the search bar to add the device to an Entra ID group, Microsoft Entra ID spits back three identical objects. Two are stale, one is active, and they…