Sam Erde

📢 Native backup and restore for Microsoft Entra ID has arrived! No official announcement yet, but a new "Backup and recovery (Preview)" menu has appeared in the Entra portal since March 19, 2026. In this menu, we can see that backups are performed automatically once per day and retained for the last 5 days. Two new roles have also been available for a few days: Entra Backup Reader (Role ID: 42252d9-5400-4d7b-b9ef-cc582dbb8577) Entra Backup Administrator (Role ID: b6a27b2b-f905-4b2e-81b5-0d90e0ef1fdb) More information should be coming soon regarding restore capabilities, as well as required licensing and potential storage costs. If the menu doesn’t appear in your tenant, the direct: #view/Microsoft_Entra_EntraRecovery/EntraRecovery.MenuView/~/overview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">entra.microsoft.com/?feature.msalj… Microsoft seems to be accelerating the pace this week: yesterday I shared another new "Tenant governance (Preview)" menu in the Entra ID portal (x.com/10500779569561…).

PowerShell 7.6 is now available on WinGet, a bit faster than I anticipated.

#PowerShell 7.6 is released! Note: It's only available via GitHub or as a .NET tool installation for now. Keep an eye on WinGet and the Microsoft Store 💫 github.com/PowerShell/Pow…

You can also use the PSReleaseTools module by @JeffHicks to download and install from GitHub. github.com/jdhitsolutions…

@SamErde I'd be excited for 7.6 if it hadn't been released way too late. This is a meh moment to be honest, RDM 2026.1 is already released based on .NET for all platforms *except* PowerShell which we had to downgrade to .NET 9

@12Knocksinna, have you already covered this?

The Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module has been updated to v2.36.0 and it includes some interesting updates for WAM and new sovereign cloud environments. Read my observations from the GitHub release notes here. day3bits.com/2026-03-18-new…

@AndySvints Thanks for sharing!

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@reprise_99 The pop-under!

Trying to find that passkey sign in dialogue box across my 20 screens

New Module: Building / Configuring connectors from the Entra Provisioning Service? Forget ClickOps. Automate Provision on Demand for retriggering provisioning or recovering from errors causing quarrantine using my new streamlined module. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-provisio…

@TheITCloudGuy That’s the explanation!

@SamErde The dopamine hit when you build a solution or a fix and it works hits better than any video game to be these days.

Son: "I just realized that PowerShell is like video games to Dad." 😂

@Jorge2990 I love grinding for XP! 😁

@SamErde It’s a game with infinite levels.

Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet 1.2.0 has been officially released with lots of bug fixes and improvements! See the release notes on the PowerShell Gallery. powershellgallery.com/packages/Micro…

@ext87 @curi0usJack Yesss, it be careful adding ABE where it’s not needed (CPU utilization).

@curi0usJack GPO with ABE

Group policy remains the best security control ever invented with no close second.

@donttrdonme @curi0usJack That’s not a GPO problem; that’s AD operations and SecOps. Many orgs stop thinking after they create and assign groups, forgetting that they need monitoring, auditing, and automation for the identity lifecycle (ILM and IGA).

@curi0usJack GPO sucks for one reason. Over privileged entitlements and loss of ability to keep the membership current. Maintaining the Group membership, and stopping entitlement creep, are two of the biggest challenges in most enterprises. So, I disagree, GPO are not the best.

@C016SMITH @ZackKorman @NathanMcNulty VS Code extension to Entra ID global admin is not a big stretch!

@ZackKorman @NathanMcNulty I hope so, but I can't even imagine... 👀 :) What about even VSCode/Github/AzureDevops where there might even be a reasonable Entra/Azure security posture?

When you don't require security keys and a dedicated device for your privileged admin roles

@AdamGell We all do, Brian. PS 7.6 can’t come soon enough for many!

@SamErde I want .net 10

PowerShell 7.5.5 is available to download from GitHub and should be on the Microsoft Store and WinGet soon. This is a maintenance release. Fingers are still crossed that we'll see 7.6 before too much longer! github.com/PowerShell/Pow…