Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Documentation-only updates: TAP lifetime guidance and Workload Identity Federation security content

The 17 February period contains two Microsoft Learn updates, covering Entra ID Temporary Access Pass (TAP) authentication and Workload ID federation. The evidence indicates documentation clarification or refreshes—not a new feature launch, preview, general-availability change, retirement, or confirmed service-behavior change.

• Entra ID · Authentication

  Entra ID TAP documentation now specifies the minimum-lifetime setting and range

  The updated Temporary Access Pass documentation table lists a minimum lifetime of 1 hour and an allowed range of 10–43,200 minutes (30 days). This is evidenced as a documentation update; it does not by itself prove that the Entra ID policy default or tenant behavior changed. Administrators using TAP should reconcile this wording with their internal runbooks and configured policy.

• Workload ID · Security

  Workload ID federation guidance was refreshed around secretless access

  The Workload Identity Federation page was updated to describe how external software workloads can access Microsoft Entra-protected resources without managing secrets. The record supports a security-guidance refresh, but does not identify a new capability, availability milestone, or required configuration change.

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