Saturday, 23 August 2025

ID Protection guidance reinforces Conditional Access for risk policies; otherwise a documentation-only day

The 23 August 2025 feed contains six documentation updates, with no new or removed entries and no Message Center announcements. The most consequential update is to ID Protection detection guidance, which directs administrators to configure sign-in and user risk policies through Microsoft Entra Conditional Access and to plan migration of legacy ID Protection risk policies. The remaining evidence concerns ID Protection guide content and Entra ID Recommendations documentation. Nothing supplied indicates a feature launch, preview, general availability change, retirement, or confirmed service-behavior change.

• ID Protection · Conditional Access

  ID Protection guidance explicitly routes risk policies through Conditional Access

  The updated Detect guidance says to configure and enable sign-in risk and user risk policies in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. It also tells tenants that enabled legacy risk policies in Microsoft Entra ID Protection to plan migration to Conditional Access. This is a guidance clarification; the supplied evidence provides no migration deadline or retirement announcement.

• Entra ID · Fundamentals

  Entra ID Recommendations documentation received a visual update

  The Recommendations page was updated with a screenshot of the tenant Overview page showing the Recommendations option. The evidence supports a presentation/documentation change only and does not establish new recommendation functionality, changed behavior, or a change in availability.

This period briefing was generated by AI from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.