Tuesday, 3 March 2026

3 March 2026: Global Secure Access source-IP behavior and Conditional Access rollout guidance clarified

This was a documentation-only day: all 10 recorded changes were updates, with no new or removed items and no Message Center notices. Two updates have clear operational relevance. Global Secure Access guidance explains how source IP restoration affects the origin seen for authentication requests, while Entra ID Conditional Access guidance describes the agent’s suggestions throughout a phased rollout. The remaining provisioning, governance, and security-page edits do not, in the supplied evidence, establish a new feature, preview, general availability event, retirement, or changed tenant requirement.

• Global Secure Access · Authentication

  Global Secure Access: authentication requests can appear from the proxy IP

  Updated authentication guidance says that when Global Secure Access is deployed as a cloud-based network proxy, failing to enable source IP restoration causes all authentication requests to come from the proxy’s IP address rather than the user’s actual public egress IP. This is a security-relevant behavior clarification, not evidence of a new feature or availability milestone. Administrators should verify that authentication designs relying on source-IP visibility account for this behavior.

• Entra ID · Conditional Access

  Entra ID Conditional Access: phased-rollout agent guidance covers the full process

  Updated Conditional Access documentation says the phased-rollout suggestion remains present throughout the rollout and can report no action needed, recommend progressing to the next phase, or suggest rolling back. This clarifies the agent’s operational guidance for an in-progress rollout; it is not presented as a new launch, preview, or GA change. Administrators running a phased rollout should review the suggestion as they move through its phases, with no separate tenant configuration change identified here.

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