Reply Url
Updated1. `http` URI schemes are acceptable because the redirect never leaves the device. As such, both of these URIs are acceptable:
Day in brief
Entra ID clarifies when HTTP reply URLs are acceptable; ID Governance expands external-user guidance
10 September was a quiet documentation day: four Microsoft Learn pages were updated, with no new or removed items and no Message Center notices. The substantive changes are documentation clarifications rather than feature launches, availability changes, or retirements. The two Global Secure Access updates provide no product behavior or administrator action in the supplied summaries, so they do not support a broader rollout conclusion.
- Entra ID documents an on-device HTTP reply URL scenario
Entra ID · GeneralThe updated Reply Url guidance states that http URI schemes are acceptable when the redirect never leaves the device, identifying the page’s two listed URIs as acceptable. This is a documentation clarification; the supplied evidence does not establish a general relaxation of Entra ID redirect-URI enforcement.
- Entitlement Management clarifies direct invitations for external users
ID Governance · GovernanceThe updated guidance explains that direct Microsoft Entra B2B invitations work well for smaller or short-term projects where guest email addresses and participants are already known. It also describes why that approach becomes harder to manage when many users are involved or membership changes over time.
This period briefing was generated by AI from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.
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Microsoft Entra ID
1 updateMicrosoft Entra ID Governance
1 updateWhen using the [Microsoft Entra B2B](~/external-id/what-is-b2b.md) invite experience, you must already know the email addresses of the external guest users you want to bring into your resource directory and work with. Directly inviting each user works great when you're working on a smaller or short-term project and you already know all the participants. This process is harder to manage if you have lots of users you want to work with, or if the participants change over time. For example, you might be working with another organization and have one point of contact with that organization, but over time more users from that organization will also need access.
Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access
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