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Protected Actions setup and Access Review Agent licensing clarified in a documentation-only day

27 September was a quiet Microsoft Entra documentation day: all four supplied changes were updates to Microsoft Learn pages, with no evidence of a new feature, preview, general-availability release, retirement, or product behavior change. The two material clarifications concern the Entra ID Protected Actions prerequisite and the ID Governance Access Review Agent licensing requirement. The Global Secure Access and token-page edits appear to be navigation or reference maintenance.

  • The updated guidance states that Protected Actions use a Conditional Access authentication context. Administrators must configure an authentication context and add it to a Conditional Access policy; an existing policy with an authentication context satisfies this step. This is a setup clarification, not evidence of a newly launched capability or changed runtime behavior.

  • The updated Access Review Agent page says that Microsoft Entra ID Governance or Microsoft Entra Suite licenses are required. The evidence supports treating this as a documentation clarification of the prerequisite, not as a reported change to licensing availability or product status.

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

4 updates

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Protected Actions Add

Updated

Protected actions use a Conditional Access authentication context, so you must configure an authentication context and add it to a Conditional Access policy. If you already have a policy with an authentication context, you can skip to the next section.

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1

Access Review Agent

Updated

- You must have [Microsoft Entra ID Governance or Microsoft Entra Suite licenses](licensing-fundamentals.md).

1

Customize Block Page

Updated

1. Navigate to **Global Secure Access** > **Settings** > **Session management** > **Custom Block Page**

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