Microsoft Entra Adds a Seven-Day Safeguard Against Irreversible Identity Deletion
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Microsoft Entra adds a seven-day safeguard against irreversible identity deletion
Microsoft Entra’s Hard Deletion Protection, now in preview, gives administrators a seven-day window to recover selected identities before they can be permanently erased. The feature is designed to help organizations respond to accidental or malicious deletion of critical directory objects. It supports users that are not synchronized from on-premises systems, cloud-only groups, applications, and service principals. Entra Agent ID objects are cove…
Hard Deletion Protection for Microsoft Entra ID is a new security feature (in Public Preview since November 2026) that prevents the immediate permanent deletion (hard deletion) of critical catalog items for 7 days after their initial deletion (soft deletion). It is part of the Microsoft Entra ID suite…
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