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Timelines and exceptions · All guidance changes

Entra · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

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Requirement wording
RemovedMicrosoft Entra joined devices
[removed: Note]
RemovedMicrosoft Entra joined devices
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.]
RemovedMicrosoft Entra joined devices
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.]
RemovedFeedback
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RemovedFeedback
[removed: Need help with this topic?]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic?]

Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under MIT. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.

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Sections to inspect

Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.

Why this was flagged

The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.

Observation details · observed 12 Oct 23:53 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
12 Oct 23:53 UTC
Source update metadata
15 Jun 17:40 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:13 UTC
Last successful check
19 Oct 23:56 UTC
Next check due
today 23:56 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 12 Oct 23:53 UTC

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • GuidanceExceptionScope4 conditions4 passages
    Microsoft Entra join: Definition; Description: Joined only to Microsoft Entra ID requiring organizational account to sign in to the device…
    Microsoft Entra join: Primary audience;…
  • Device sign in optionsRequirement1 condition2 passages
  • ScenariosException1 condition1 passage

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  1. Conditions changed Operating Systemsin Microsoft Entra joined devicesMicrosoft's source, commit c7edfa9
  3. Conditions changed Operating Systemsin Microsoft Entra joined devicesMicrosoft's source, commit 1d59922
  4. Conditions changed Definitionin Microsoft Entra joined devicesMicrosoft's source, commit 1d59922
  5. Exception added Provisioningin Microsoft Entra joined devicesMicrosoft's source, commit 1d59922
  6. Conditions changed Primary audiencein Microsoft Entra joined devicesMicrosoft's source, commit 1d59922
Observed history and review priority

Captured 12 Oct 23:53 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:11 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 13

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:40 UTC.

  1. [BULK UPDATE] User Story 573314: Ensure every doc in MSec repos has an author from MSec Docs (entra-docs-pr 4) (#13372) Metadata onlyServed on LearnView diff
  2. updates for ubuntu 26.04 release support View diff
  3. updated additional pages for linux release View diff
  4. Fix broken internal links — batch 5/7 (20 files) View diff
  5. Update docs/identity/devices/concept-directory-join.md View diff
  6. Update concept-directory-join.md View diff
  7. Merge pull request #4957 from iambmelt/patch-7 View diff
  8. [Conditional Access] Policy file rename link fixes View diff
  9. Fixing path View diff
  10. Fixing file paths View diff
  11. Deployment notes and related content linking View diff
  12. Incremental updates to Entra Join docs page View diff
8 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. [BULK UPDATE] Metadata: Move author/ms.author/ms.service/ms.subservice/manager to folder level (3/5) Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Moves manager to folder level for /identity/ and out of individual files. Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Bulk update ms.topic, folder: identity,permissions-management,standards Metadata onlyView diff
  4. updates Metadata onlyView diff
  5. Device Manager Updates Metadata onlyView diff
  6. Directory join concept Metadata onlyView diff
  7. BULK [Microsoft Entra] Manager update Metadata onlyView diff
  8. [Devices] Downlevel OS out of support Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 23:53 UTC · shown above
  • 8 Oct 23:13 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.

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