Saturday, 24 January 2026

External ID pricing guidance clarifies that MAU billing includes every external-tenant user

24 January was a documentation-only period with two updated Microsoft Learn pages. The most consequential clarification is for External ID pricing: MAU billing applies to all users in an external tenant, regardless of UserType. The other update clarifies the controls and limits for Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies. No supplied change is identified as a new feature, preview, general availability release, retirement, or confirmed service-behavior change.

• External ID · General

  External ID pricing guidance clarifies the MAU billing population

  The updated pricing guidance states that MAU billing applies to all users in an external tenant, including consumers, business guests without directory roles, and users with directory roles, regardless of their UserType setting. This is a pricing-documentation clarification rather than evidence of a newly launched billing capability.

• Entra ID · Conditional Access

  Managed Conditional Access policy controls and limits are clarified

  The updated Entra ID guidance says administrators can make limited changes to Microsoft-managed policies, such as excluding users or changing the policy from report-only to on or off. Microsoft-managed policies cannot be renamed or deleted; administrators needing a custom policy can duplicate one. The supplied record identifies this as a documentation update, not a confirmed change to the service.

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