Operational Groups in Entra with Nathan McNulty

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In this insightful episode, Nathan McNulty, Senior Security Solutions Architect at Patriot Consulting, shares his extensive experience deploying and securing Microsoft Entra environments. With a background spanning civil engineering, education, and critical infrastructure, Nathan brings practical wisdom from managing environments with 50,000+ users and 90,000+ devices.

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The conversation explores realistic approaches to securing BYOD, building effective conditional access policies using a "castle" framework, and leveraging administrative units to partition permissions efficiently. Nathan reveals his innovative "operational groups" automation technique that helps classify users by authentication methods, enabling granular security controls without manual effort. The episode also covers authentication methods migration strategies, extension attributes, and modern cloud automation approaches that replace traditional server-based scripts.

Whether you're looking to improve your conditional access strategy, smoothly migrate authentication methods, or automate Entra management tasks, Nathan's field-tested insights will help you secure your environment more effectively while reducing administrative overhead.

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Related Links

* Operational Groups scripts - https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/nathanmcnulty/tree/master/Entra/operational-groups

* Maester DevOps - https://maester.dev/docs/monitoring/github

* Authentication Methods Migration - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/how-to-authentication-methods-manage

* Administrative units - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/role-based-access-control/administrative-units

* Restricted management administrative units - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/role-based-access-control/admin-units-restricted-management

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