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Governance
Keeping access, cost and configuration under control: policy, access reviews, roles and lifecycle.
Start here
- Azure Arc for servers: the complete setup guide
How to set up Azure Arc for servers end to end: how the agent works, network and firewall needs, every onboarding method, and fixes for common errors. - Governing AI agent identities in Entra: sponsors, access packages and expiry
How to govern AI agent identities in Entra: assign sponsors, grant access through access packages, set expiry and handle a sponsor leaving. - Activate PIM roles from PowerShell with Microsoft Graph
The portal is fine for occasional use, but if you activate roles every day, a few lines of Graph PowerShell are faster.
Coming up
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure Functions in-process model support ends
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure IoT Edge 1.5 LTS end of servicing
- 31 Jan 2027 Azure Blueprints retires
- 1 Feb 2027 Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA retired
- 2 Feb 2027 Entra Connect 2.5.190.0 reaches end of support
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise tiers retire
- 31 Mar 2027 Cloud Services (extended support) fully retired
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Front Door (classic) retires
Learning paths
Reference and tools
All Governance posts (15)
- Azure Arc for servers: the complete setup guide 17 Oct 2026
- Every Entra default user permission, what it does, and how to check yours in one command 16 Oct 2026
- Governing AI agent identities in Entra: sponsors, access packages and expiry 11 Oct 2026
- SOC Identity Responder: contain a compromised account without handing out admin roles 9 Oct 2026
- Lock down app consent without blocking your users 23 Sept 2026
- Stop surprise Azure bills with budgets and anomaly alerts 26 Aug 2026
- Account Discovery: find the accounts your SaaS apps forgot to tell you about 17 Jun 2026
- Cross-tenant group sync is GA: one group, many tenants 3 Jun 2026
- Entra Agent ID: giving AI agents real identities 6 May 2026
- Require phishing-resistant MFA on every PIM activation 22 Apr 2026
- Tenant configuration management: snapshot your Entra config and catch drift 8 Apr 2026
- Clean up guest accounts with access reviews 25 Mar 2026
- Resource locks: a cheap insurance policy against the wrong click 18 Feb 2026
- Azure Policy guardrails every subscription should have 4 Feb 2026
- Activate PIM roles from PowerShell with Microsoft Graph 5 Nov 2025