Tuesday, 10 March 2026

10 March 2026: Entra documentation clarifies external-user catalog settings and access-review scope; no rollout is evidenced

This was a documentation-led period: all seven tracked items were updates, with no new or removed items and no Message Center entries. The most consequential edits are in ID Governance: catalog guidance now ties the Enabled for external users setting to access-package policies for connected organizations, while access-review guidance distinguishes group or application reviews from access-package reviews. Other updates cover security-key and S/MIME wording, administrative-unit group procedures, support, and developer setup. The supplied evidence identifies no new feature, preview, general-availability release, retirement, or changed service behavior.

• ID Governance · Governance

  Entitlement Management clarifies the control for external catalog requests

  The Catalog Create guidance says to set Enabled for external users to Yes when users in external directories from connected organizations should be able to request access packages, and to pair that setting with an access-package policy allowing those users to request. It says to set the setting to No when the catalog is intended only for users already in the directory. This is an administrative guidance clarification, not evidence of a new capability.

• ID Governance · Governance

  Access Review guidance separates group or application reviews from access-package reviews

  The Perform Access Review page describes reviews of group members and users with application access, and directs administrators to a separate entitlement-management article for access-package reviews. The change clarifies which procedure applies to each resource type; it does not announce a change to access-review behavior.

• Entra ID · Authentication

  Passwordless security-key guidance adds S/MIME wording

  The Windows security-key documentation includes “S/MIME using a security key.” The supplied record does not establish whether this represents new support or changed behavior, so it should be treated as updated authentication and security guidance rather than a feature launch.

• Entra ID · General

  Administrative-unit guidance distinguishes creating a group from adding an existing group

  The Admin Units Members Add instructions clarify that one request creates a new group directly in an administrative unit, while adding an existing group uses the separate Add groups to an administrative unit procedure. This is a procedural documentation clarification.

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