Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for June 2019:
What’s New
New riskDetections API for Microsoft Graph Public preview
Service category: Identity Protection
Product capability: Identity Security & Protection
Microsoft is pleased to announce the new riskDetections API for Microsoft Graph is now in public preview. Administrators can use this new API to view a list of their organization's Identity Protection-related user and sign-in risk detections. Admins can also use this API to more efficiently query risk detections, including details about the detection type, status, level, and more.
New Federated Apps available in Azure AD app gallery
Service category: Enterprise Apps
Product capability: 3rd Party Integration
In June 2019, Microsoft has added these 22 new apps with Federation support to the Azure AD App Gallery:
- Azure AD SAML Toolkit
- Otsuka Shokai (大塚商会)
- ANAQUA
- Azure VPN Client
- ExpenseIn
- Helper Helper
- Costpoint
- GlobalOne
- Mercedes-Benz In-Car Office
- Skore
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console
- CyberArk SAML Authentication
- Scrible Edu
- PandaDoc
- Perceptyx
- Proptimise OS
- Vtiger CRM (SAML)
- Oracle Access Manager for Oracle Retail Merchandising
- Oracle Access Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite
- Oracle IDCS for E-Business Suite
- Oracle IDCS for PeopleSoft
- Oracle IDCS for JD Edwards
Automate user account provisioning for these SaaS apps
Service category: Enterprise Apps
Product capability: Monitoring & Reporting
Azure AD admins can now automate creating, updating, and deleting user accounts for these newly-integrated apps:
What’s Changed
View the real-time progress of the Azure AD provisioning service
Service category: App Provisioning
Product capability: Identity Lifecycle Management
Microsoft has updated the Azure AD provisioning experience to include a new progress bar that shows admins how far they are in the user provisioning process. This updated experience also provides information about the number of users provisioned during the current cycle, as well as how many users have been provisioned to date.
Company branding now appears on sign out and error screens
Service category: Authentications (Logins)
Product capability: User Authentication
Microsoft has updated Azure AD so that company branding now appears on the sign out and error screens, as well as the sign-in page. Administrators don't have to do anything to turn this feature on; Azure AD simply uses the assets that have already been set up in the Company branding area of the Azure portal.
What’s Deprecated
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Server is no longer available for new deployments
Service category: MFA
Product capability: Identity Security & Protection
As of July 1, 2019, Microsoft will no longer offer MFA Server for new deployments. New organizations who want to require multi-factor authentication must now use cloud-based Azure Multi-Factor Authentication. Organizations who activated MFA Server prior to July 1 won't see a change; Admins will still be able to download the latest version, get future updates, and generate activation credentials.
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