Saturday, 13 September 2025

Entra update: CBA documentation refresh and SCIM token-handling clarification

13 September was a documentation-focused day for Microsoft Entra ID: all 10 recorded changes were updates to Microsoft Learn pages, with no new or removed items and no Message Center entries. Eight updates covered certificate-based authentication (CBA), while two covered provisioning and SCIM. The evidence supports documentation clarification and maintenance, not a confirmed feature launch, retirement, or service-behavior change.

• Entra ID · Authentication

  Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication guidance was refreshed

  Eight Entra ID fundamentals pages were updated across CBA topics, including certificate revocation lists, the technical deep dive, certificateUserIds, limitations, migration, Android and iOS support, and smart-card use. The surfaced revocation-list guidance states that a CA-issued certificate remains valid until expiration unless revoked earlier; each certificate contains a public key and is signed by the CA. The record does not establish a change to CBA behavior, availability, or tenant settings.

• Entra ID · Standards

  SCIM guidance documents token validation during provisioning requests

  The updated SCIM guidance describes the provisioning cycle checking whether the current access token is valid, exchanging it for a new token when needed, sending the token with each request to the application, and checking request validity before each request. This supports an integration-documentation review; it does not by itself indicate a new provisioning capability or a change in service behavior.

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