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[Azure AD] [Fundamentals] what's new October 2021
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## April 2021
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### Bug fixed - Azure AD will no longer double-encode the state parameter in responses
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**Type:** Fixed
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**Service category:** Authentications (Logins)
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**Product capability:** User Authentication
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Azure AD has identified, tested, and released a fix for a bug in the `/authorize` response to a client application. Azure AD was incorrectly URL encoding the `state` parameter twice when sending responses back to the client. This can cause a client application to reject the request, due to a mismatch in state parameters. [Learn more](../develop/reference-breaking-changes.md#bug-fix-azure-ad-will-no-longer-url-encode-the-state-parameter-twice).
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### Users can only create security and Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portal being deprecated
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**Type:** Plan for change
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**Service category:** Group Management
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**Product capability:** Directory
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Users will no longer be limited to create security and Microsoft 365 groups only in the Azure portal. The new setting will allow users to create security groups in the Azure portal, PowerShell, and API. Users will be required to verify and update the new setting. [Learn more](../enterprise-users/groups-self-service-management.md).
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### Public preview - External Identities Self-Service Sign-up in AAD using Email One-Time Passcode accounts
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**Type:** New feature
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**Service category:** B2B
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**Product capability:** B2B/B2C
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External users can now use Email One-Time Passcode accounts to sign up or sign in to Azure AD 1st party and line-of-business applications. [Learn more](../external-identities/one-time-passcode.md).
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### General availability - External Identities Self-Service Sign Up
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**Type:** New feature
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**Service category:** B2B
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**Product capability:** B2B/B2C
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Self-service sign-up for external users is now in general availability. With this new feature, external users can now self-service sign up to an application.
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You can create customized experiences for these external users, including collecting information about your users during the registration process and allowing external identity providers like Facebook and Google. You can also integrate with third-party cloud providers for various functionalities like identity verification or approval of users. [Learn more](../external-identities/self-service-sign-up-overview.md).
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### General availability - Azure AD B2C Phone Sign-up and Sign-in using Built-in Policy
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**Type:** New feature
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**Service category:** B2C - Consumer Identity Management
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**Product capability:** B2B/B2C
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B2C Phone Sign-up and Sign-in using a built-in policy enable IT administrators and developers of organizations to allow their end-users to sign in and sign-up using a phone number in user flows. With this feature, disclaimer links such as privacy policy and terms of use can be customized and shown on the page before the end-user proceeds to receive the one-time passcode via text message. [Learn more](../../active-directory-b2c/phone-authentication-user-flows.md).
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### New Federated Apps available in Azure AD Application gallery - April 2021
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**Type:** New feature
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**Service category:** Enterprise Apps
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**Product capability:** 3rd Party Integration
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In April 2021, we have added following 31 new applications in our App gallery with Federation support
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[Zii Travel Azure AD Connect](http://ziitravel.com/), [Cerby](../saas-apps/cerby-tutorial.md), [Selflessly](https://app.selflessly.io/sign-in), [Apollo CX](https://apollo.cxlabs.de/sso/aad), [Pedagoo](https://account.pedagoo.com/), [Measureup](https://account.measureup.com/), [Wistec Education](https://wisteceducation.fi/login/index.php), [ProcessUnity](../saas-apps/processunity-tutorial.md), [Cisco Intersight](../saas-apps/cisco-intersight-tutorial.md), [Codility](../saas-apps/codility-tutorial.md), [H5mag](https://account.h5mag.com/auth/request-access/ms365), [Check Point Identity Awareness](../saas-apps/check-point-identity-awareness-tutorial.md), [Jarvis](https://jarvis.live/login), [desknet's NEO](../saas-apps/desknets-neo-tutorial.md), [SDS & Chemical Information Management](../saas-apps/sds-chemical-information-management-tutorial.md), [Wúru App](../saas-apps/wuru-app-tutorial.md), [Holmes](../saas-apps/holmes-tutorial.md), [Tide Multi Tenant](https://gallery.tideapp.co.uk/), [Telenor](https://admin.smartansatt.telenor.no/), [Yooz US](https://us1.getyooz.com/?kc_idp_hint=microsoft), [Mooncamp](https://app.mooncamp.com/#/login), [inwise SSO](https://app.inwise.com/defaultsso.aspx), [Ecolab Digital Solutions](https://ecolabb2c.b2clogin.com/account.ecolab.com/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?p=B2C_1A_Connect_OIDC_SignIn&client_id=01281626-dbed-4405-a430-66457825d361&nonce=defaultNonce&redirect_uri=https://jwt.ms&scope=openid&response_type=id_token&prompt=login), [Taguchi Digital Marketing System](https://login.taguchi.com.au/), [XpressDox EU Cloud](https://test.xpressdox.com/Authentication/Login.aspx), [EZSSH](https://docs.keytos.io/getting-started/registering-a-new-tenant/registering_app_in_tenant/), [EZSSH Client](https://portal.ezssh.io/signup), [Verto 365](https://www.vertocloud.com/Login/), [KPN Grip](https://www.grip-on-it.com/), [AddressLook](https://portal.bbsonlineservices.net/Manage/AddressLook), [Cornerstone Single Sign-On](../saas-apps/cornerstone-ondemand-tutorial.md)
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You can also find the documentation of all the applications here: https://aka.ms/AppsTutorial
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For listing your application in the Azure AD app gallery, read the details here: https://aka.ms/AzureADAppRequest
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### New provisioning connectors in the Azure AD Application Gallery - April 2021
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**Type:** New feature
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**Service category:** App Provisioning
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**Product capability:** 3rd Party Integration
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You can now automate creating, updating, and deleting user accounts for these newly integrated apps:
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- [Bentley - Automatic User Provisioning](../saas-apps/bentley-automatic-user-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Boxcryptor](../saas-apps/boxcryptor-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [BrowserStack Single Sign-on](../saas-apps/browserstack-single-sign-on-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Eletive](../saas-apps/eletive-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Jostle](../saas-apps/jostle-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Olfeo SAAS](../saas-apps/olfeo-saas-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Proware](../saas-apps/proware-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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- [Segment](../saas-apps/segment-provisioning-tutorial.md)
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For more information about how to better secure your organization with automated user account provisioning, see [Automate user provisioning to SaaS applications with Azure AD](../app-provisioning/user-provisioning.md).
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### Introducing new versions of page layouts for B2C
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**Type:** Changed feature
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**Service category:** B2C - Consumer Identity Management
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**Product capability:** B2B/B2C
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The [page layouts](../../active-directory-b2c/page-layout.md) for B2C scenarios on the Azure AD B2C has been updated to reduce security risks by introducing the new versions of jQuery and Handlebars JS.
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### Updates to Sign-in Diagnostic
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**Type:** Changed feature
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**Service category:** Reporting
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**Product capability:** Monitoring & Reporting
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The scenario coverage of the Sign-in Diagnostic tool has increased.
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With this update, the following event-related scenarios will now be included in the sign-in diagnosis results:
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- Enterprise Applications configuration problem events.
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- Enterprise Applications service provider (application-side) events.
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- Incorrect credentials events.
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These results will show contextual and relevant details about the event and actions to take to resolve these problems. Also, for scenarios where we don't have deep contextual diagnostics, Sign-in Diagnostic will present more descriptive content about the error event.
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For more information, see [What is sign-in diagnostic in Azure AD?](../reports-monitoring/overview-sign-in-diagnostics.md)
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### Azure AD Connect cloud sync general availability refresh
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**Type:** Changed feature
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**Service category:** Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync
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**Product capability:** Directory
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Azure AD connect cloud sync now has an updated agent (version# - 1.1.359). For more details on agent updates, including bug fixes, check out the [version history](../cloud-sync/reference-version-history.md). With the updated agent, cloud sync customers can use GMSA cmdlets to set and reset their gMSA permission at a granular level. In addition that, we have changed the limit of syncing members using group scope filtering from 1499 to 50,000 (50K) members.
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Check out the newly available [expression builder](../cloud-sync/how-to-expression-builder.md#deploy-the-expression) for cloud sync, which, helps you build complex expressions as well as simple expressions when you do transformations of attribute values from AD to Azure AD using attribute mapping.
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### Guidance on how to enable support for TLS 1.2 in your environment, in preparation for upcoming Azure AD TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation

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