What's new in Microsoft Entra RBAC documentation
This article provides information about new features and documentation improvements in Microsoft Entra role-based access control (RBAC).
2025
| Date | Area | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Security | Updated guidance for emergency access accounts. See Manage emergency access accounts in Microsoft Entra ID. |
| February 2025 | Roles | New Microsoft 365 Backup Administrator role. |
| January 2025 | Protected actions | Protect against hard deletions of some soft-deleted directory objects. See Deletion of directory objects. |
| January 2025 | Roles | Updated permissions for multiple roles. See Microsoft Entra built-in roles. |
| January 2025 | Role assignments | Updated instructions for how to list, add, and remove role assignments. See List Microsoft Entra role assignments, Assign Microsoft Entra roles, and Remove Microsoft Entra role assignments. |
| January 2025 | Custom roles | Updated instructions for how to create custom roles. See Create a custom role in Microsoft Entra ID. |
| January 2025 | Roles | Updated per-user multifactor authentication (MFA) in comparison table. See Compare authentication roles. |
| January 2025 | My Staff | Updated limit for My Staff and administrative units. See Manage your users with My Staff. |
2024
| Date | Area | Description |
|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | Roles | New AI Administrator role. |
| October 2024 | Administrative units | General availability of dynamic administrative units. See Manage users or devices for an administrative unit with rules for dynamic membership groups. |
| October 2024 | Roles | Several updates to least privileged roles. See Least privileged roles by task in Microsoft Entra ID. |
| October 2024 | Microsoft Graph API | Recommendation to use the unified RBAC APIs instead of the directory role APIs. See Assign Microsoft Entra roles. |
| September 2024 | Roles | Updated permissions for multiple roles. See Microsoft Entra built-in roles. |
| August 2024 | Roles | Updated guidance and permission for Directory Synchronization Accounts role. |
| July 2024 | Microsoft Graph API | Deprecated the Directory.Write.Restricted permission. |
| July 2024 | Administrative units | Updated permissions to create a new group in an administrative unit. See Permissions to create a new group. |
| June 2024 | Roles | New User Experience Success Manager role. |
| May 2024 | Roles | New SharePoint Embedded Administrator role. |
| May 2024 | Roles | New Teams Telephony Administrator role. |