Entra ID Rationalizes Session Revocation for User Accounts

Entra Revoke Sessions.

Microsoft is rationalizing the options to revoke sessions for a user account in the Entra admin center by removing an old revoke MFA sessions button. That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. When administrators want to revoke sessions for an account, the best way is to create a PowerShell script to perform the necessary steps. That way you don’t need to worry about buttons.

How to Force Users to Sign in Weekly

A recent question asked how to force users to reauthenticate at 7AM every Monday. The solution seems to revoke access for user accounts. This article describes how to create an Azure automation runbook (PowerShell script) to find target accounts and revoke their access. By linking the runbook to an automation schedule, we can make sure that revocation happens at the desired time.

Microsoft Retires the Revoke-SPOUserSession Cmdlet

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft announced the deprecation of the Revoke-SPOUserSession cmdlet for November 2024. The cmdlet is replaced by the Revoke-MgUserSignInSession cmdlet, which works across Microsoft 365 rather than just SharePoint Online. All of this happened while the 2nd annual PowerShell Script-Off happened at TEC 2024 and competitors struggled with what to do to secure a user account for an ex-employee.