Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Microsoft is retiring natively provided SMS and voice authentication in Entra ID, and the clock is ticking: passkeys become the default experience on September 1, 2026, and Microsoft-provided telecom delivery is fully retired on February 1, 2027.  We walk through the timeline, what admins should do now to find and migrate affected users, and when the new Security Store telecom providers make sense. We also cover the everyday struggle: moving Microsoft Authenticator to a new phone without locking yourself out.

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Show links
- Passkeys by default | MS Learn
- Transfer Authenticator to a new phone  
- SMS/voice usage analyzer script  
- Plan a passkey deployment  
- End-user communication templates

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Creators and Guests

Host
Jussi Roine
Founder & CEO, Not Bad Security*
Host
Tobias Zimmergren
CTO, co-founder at pons.io | Co-host ctrlaltazure.com | Ex-Microsoft, ex-MVP.

What is Ctrl+Alt+Azure?

Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.