Microsoft Entra Releases April 2026 Updates for AI Agents and Security

Microsoft Entra published its April 2026 releases and announcements on April 30, 2026. The update covers general availability, public previews, and planned changes across identity, authentication, provisioning, and network access products.

The Microsoft Entra Agent ID platform reached general availability. It delivers an identity and authorization framework for AI agents using OAuth 2.0, MCP, and A2A standards in enterprise settings. Additional April general availabilities include prefetching Workday termination data, certificate-based authentication support on iOS as a second factor, Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Service Pack 3, and configurable token lifetime policies.

Public previews launched for account discovery in ID Governance, Microsoft Entra ID federation with External ID, app-based branding themes, and $count filtering in the sign-ins API. Several plan-for-change items address migration from Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to Cloud Sync starting July 2026, updates to SCIM provisioning for modern authentication, and workload identity authentication for SAP SuccessFactors integrations beginning May 2026.

March 2026 entries noted the public preview of Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery with five-day retention for eligible licenses, Entra Hybrid Join using Kerberos, and synced passkeys. The page also lists earlier October 2025 updates such as soft delete for Conditional Access policies and granular permissions for UserAuthenticationMethod APIs.

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