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Microsoft Entra ID
Formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Overview

What is Microsoft Entra ID?

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and…

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How Microsoft Entra ID Differs From Its Competitors

Deployment

We have used local Active Directory for decades and found a disconnect as we began utilizing more cloud-based services. Management of user accounts for disparate systems became increasingly frustrating not only for admins but also for end users who had separate logins for each. Utilizing Entra …
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Multi-App Security

We do not currently use Entra ID with non-Microsoft apps.
Currently, we use Entra ID to connect with only Microsoft-based SaaS applications but look forward to more of our SaaS application vendors offering the Entra ID as an option.
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End User Experience

The ability to use single sign-on between SaaS applications has improved our end-user experience. This will gain in popularity as more non-Microsoft applications add support for Entra ID. In addition, enforcing multifactor authentication, which could be daunting for end-users, was a simple process …
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Deployment

At the company I work at now, our identity is managed exclusively in the cloud. We have all user management and VMs hosted through Microsoft, not internally. We utilize the full Microsoft cloud suite for SSO, user management, and VM deployment. We utilize Intune in the cloud for device MDM and …
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Multi-App Security

Yes, we utilize Entra ID to secure non-Microsoft applications. This is done by eliminating additional password requirements for the end users and having them use Microsoft's SSO system which reduces password forgetting and additional weak passwords for vendors that may not have as strict password …
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End User Experience

During the deployment of Entra ID we noticed that end users are much more receptive to the application SSO portal than originally thought. They enjoy portal that allows usage of all relevant applications with one username and password. Productivity has been up for IT staff and end users as …
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Deployment

We use Active Directory for our underlying identity and integrate Entra ID into that. We have on-prem data centers as well as public cloud configurations using these technologies to underpin our identity.
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Multi-App Security

We use Entra ID as our primary means of integrating our identity with many products, both legacy on-prem as well as other cloud SaaS solutions. This allows SSO and Multifactor abilities to monitor and protect.
Cloud products like Workday and Salesforce work well with Entra ID as well as on-prem …
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Multi-App Security

We use Entra ID for SSO for any app that we can integrate with. Most apps can.
SaaS apps connected to Entra include: Sage Intacct, Salesforce, Blackbaud CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Ceridian Dayforce, Citrix, and others.

We have some in house developed products running on prem connected to Entra ID.
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Deployment

We have both an onsite server running the cloud provisioning agent and cloud identities. Our onsite server syncs with the Entra ID to provide single sign on for Microsoft services. This allows us to use a single password for signing in to on premise resources as well as cloud resources such as …
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End User Experience

There have been some changes since they moved from Azure AD. There are inconsistencies in the interface from what we were originally familiar with in Azure AD. Microsoft has changed the location of several items and we have been overall disappointed with the transition and functionality of Entra …
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Deployment

All of our identities are in the cloud. I wouldn't really consider maintaining our credentials and managing these systems on-prem, at this point. I'd rather rely on Microsoft Entra ID to house our data securely and reliably, than try to do it ourselves. Happy to outsource as many of our IT …
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End User Experience

Yes, our users are happy about being able to quickly and easily login to multiple MS apps and SAAS apps with a single set of credentials. It definitely saves time.
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Deployment

Onprem Identities which gets synced to Azure Cloud via Azure AD AD-Connect. We have multiple domain controllers in multiple locations so identities in On-prem gets replicated across all DCs and then they gets synced to cloud via Azure AD connect agent. So Hybrid model of deployment is what we have.
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Deployment

We are a holdings company that has approximately 30 companies under our umbrella. Some of our companies are using an on-prem (hybrid) domain and some are cloud-only. The intent is to move all of our companies to cloud-only in the near future, but in the meantime Entra provides us the flexibility …
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Multi-App Security

Yes, we currently have implemented Meraki sign-ins into Entra ID. This enables us to leverage security groups to grant access to the administration portal for the Meraki devices. This application shows up when a user logs into their M365 dashboard (after the app has been assigned to them). They …
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End User Experience

As with any change that gets implemented, end users will typically have an adjustment period. I believe that inherently people don't like change, so adoption of new products/processes can cause confusion or frustrations. Overall, we had some initial grumblings about changes to the sign-in process, …
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Deployment

We have identities both on Prem and as well as on cloud. Now we are moving all the identities to cloud as this saves us a lot of cost and manpower to manage the tenant.
We are moving all the resources in a phased manner to avoid any issues. The deployment is pretty easy as we have support from …
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Deployment

We currently have both on-prem identities that are synced to the cloud as well as cloud-only identities. We have local AD and also use a local Identity Management system.
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Deployment

Due to starting with on-prem AD many years ago, we have most of our IDs in on-prem but slowly transitioning to Entra ID.
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Deployment

All in the cloud. We first started with an on premise version. After a few years we combined this with the cloud to be a hybrid solution. After a few years we moved everything to the cloud.
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Deployment

We have identites in the cloud, as this save us costs of self hosting and managing on-prem locally. Everything is managed in the cloud with ease of access and keeping our IT systems modern so we don't have to worry about falling behind in the times and it also helps check another box for making …
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Multi-App Security

As a requirement when purchasing software we use it requires us to make sure that all software and services can use SSO. If the software does not have SSO and Entra ID intergration we simply do not use it and look at alterntives.
We only use cloud based systems, Mainly Microsft products and …
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End User Experience

Being able to access everything from a single place has proved quite usefull and saves a lot of time. Being able to use SSO to log into multiple applications has saved time and kept things more secure. Also the concistancy for users being able to work on microsoft products from any device with …
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Deployment

Our deployment is hybrid as we still have an on prem Active Directory and Exchange server. There are some limitations in a hybrid environment for example users and email accounts must be created on prem before syncing to Entra ID and Office 365. User attributes can only be changed on prem then …
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Multi-App Security

We use Entra ID to secure many of our on prem Applications both paid and opensource the only issue is a lot of paid products charge extra to access the SSO functionality, so we are sometimes limited by budget on what we can implement it in.
We use a lot of government SaaS Software that sometimes …
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End User Experience

It’s transparent for the End user, I remember when we switched from full on prem to hybrid, there was no change at all for the end user as most of the added functionality is in the cloud, the only impact I’ve seen is when a user gets blocked due to an external source trying to access their account …
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Deployment

We are still using a local Active Directory domain for on-prem logins(we haven't moved to Entra-joined for that just yet) and Entra for cloud identity management. Entra also ties into our Microsoft 365 license so that users can access Microsoft 365 apps. Entra is a great identity provider, and we …
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End User Experience

The end-user experience seems to be much better than before. We now have a true single sign-on environment where the end-user always knows what to expect. Previously some of our web apps would use just a username/password as a login and some would be a full email/password login. The logins could …
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Deployment

We have both types of identities that are on-premises and in-cloud identities, we have hybrid environment and it's synced through AD Connect tool. we have enabled only one way syncing without password hash write-back due to our security policy. so, the users outside are not able to change …
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Multi-App Security

We are using manage engine products like op manager, manage engine desktop central, SAP etc and we are using Microsoft Entra ID for authentication and authorization we are also using Microsoft authenticator for multifactor authentication of those applications. for mobile device management and …
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End User Experience

At the time of implementation of Entra ID for authentication and authorization for the end users the transition was transparent other than when we implemented multi factor authentication and registered each user to Microsoft multi factor authentication portal. which was different for users at …
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Deployment

So we have private cloud customers and Azure customers. So we use Entra ID remote allowing us to also move our customer to do a more modern platform. That's what we use it for.
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Multi-App Security

Yes. We built all the policies down every app, so whether that sit in our own private data centers that we built our own applications to run the business. Also our SaaS applications, dynamics, power platforms use enter to the order.
We probably have the majority of our users and devices, our …
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Deployment

I create users within Active Directory and then I manage them within entra id and that ties in with our security also with Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview. So they all tie in together.
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Multi-App Security

So we use foxit PDF reader to give access to our users through SAML, so that's the only way they could get access is if they're in the environment to get requests for. That's all.
No
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Deployment

On cloud, we don't really have too many changes happening in Entra ID to actually account for it because we will start having it personally very soon. Right now we only have it for our customers, so I can't kind of explain how they make the changes. So that's all I can offer.
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Multi-App Security

Again, that's down to our customer, so I'm not quite sure about that.
Yes, we have our own SaaS application that we connect to Entra ID, which is bulk ID itself. And yeah, we use that to integrate with Entra ID.
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End User Experience

I can't quite explain that simply because our customers already began with Entra ID, so we kind of inherited their Entra ID set rather than them picking it up. So, I don't have an answer.
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Deployment

We are on the cloud based, as we are moving away from on premise infrastructures, this comes with the organization's policy where WFA is allowed and will not go anytime soon. Having it sitting in the cloud actually makes easier for us to manage and focus more on important things, instead of …
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Multi-App Security

We are only using for all of our Microsoft suites applications, as we have several IAM in our organizations, Microsoft Entra ID is optimized for 200 people that are in the license,
Microsoft Entra ID is being used to manage our MS Teams, Yammer, Sharepoint Online, M365 Suite, One Drive for business …
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End User Experience

There is no complaint from our users, despite they are in WFA environment, it is easier for them to manage their needs via our servicedesk as our users know there are several groups that can access certain resources and there are groups that are not allowed to, with enforcing approvals, this …
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Deployment

Yes, I have implemented both on-premise and in the cloud. The Azure AD on cloud implementation works directly on ODATA API construct as per the standard implementation.
The On-premise requires installation of provisioning agent and cloud sync with the system. It is integrated with 3rd party …
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Multi-App Security

Yes, it is connected to non-microsoft applications such as Successfactors, Workday etc. It is connected to those apps via provisioning for pulling data from these apps. The data pulls happens using standard feature of Odata REST APIs from successfactors. These works on the principle of unique …
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End User Experience

Yes, the end user experience changes to much satisfiable extent in different applications with the deployment of Entra ID. It is even helpful in integration different third party applications through the usage of single sign on feature to those apps. This can happen with the exchange of metadata …
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Multi-App Security

No, we did not use Entra ID for any non-microsoft app.
Yes we had connected modularcarerecord.com to Microsoft Entra ID. No we did not have any on-premise connection to Entra ID.
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Popular Features

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  • Multi-Factor Authentication (86)
    9.2
    92%
  • ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (86)
    9.0
    90%
  • ID-Management Access Control (85)
    8.8
    88%
  • Password Management (82)
    8.2
    82%

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Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
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Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 11-50 employees
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Pricing

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Premium P1

$6.00

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Premium P2

$9.00

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

AD FS to Microsoft Entra | How to migrate cloud apps

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Microsoft Entra ID Beginner's Tutorial (Azure Active Directory)

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Introducing Microsoft Entra

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Features

Identity Management

Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

8.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Entra ID?

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

Microsoft Entra ID safeguards organizations with a cloud identity and access management solution that connects employees, customers, and partners to their apps, devices, and data. Features include:

  • Secure adaptive access: Protects access to resources and data using strong authentication and risk-based adaptive access policies without compromising user experience.
  • Seamless user experiences: Provides an easy sign-in experience across a multicloud environment to keep users productive, reduce time managing passwords, and increase productivity.
  • Unified identity management: Manages identities and access to all applications in a central location, whether they’re in the cloud or on-premises, to improve visibility and control.


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Microsoft Entra ID Features

Identity Management Features

  • Supported: ID-Management Access Control
  • Supported: ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
  • Supported: Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Supported: Password Management
  • Supported: Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
  • Supported: ID Management Workflow Automation
  • Supported: ID Risk Management

Microsoft Entra ID Video

Authentication fundamentals: The basics | Azure Active Directory

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Microsoft Entra ID Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

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Reviewers rate Multi-Factor Authentication highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Microsoft Entra ID are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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June 13, 2024

Microsoft Entra ID bridged the gap for our users.

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Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
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Return on Investment
  • Allowed for quick rollout of multifactor authentication (MFA).
  • The ability for single sign-on reduced user frustration when bouncing between applications.
  • Cloud-based management allows admins to manage users regardless of location.
June 08, 2024

Microsoft Entra ID is a great identity solution.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Incentivized
Return on Investment
  • Have been able to modernize SSO from ADFS to save on configuration and server management.
  • Modernize MFA options over legacy onprem solutions and replace other products/expenses.
  • Seamlessly expand AD into the public cloud space to use established identities for those use cases.
June 05, 2024

Azure Active Directory = Microsoft Entra ID

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Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Incentivized
Return on Investment
  • Our organization covers Cyber Security insurance and as part of the review/auditing, we are able to save on insurance premiums since we implement the security features of Entra ID.
  • The ability to use conditional access policies helps us to increase security without negatively impacting our users. For example, we can require additional verifications based on geographic location of sign-in attempts. This means that users on our internal network can sign-in with MFA, but sign-in attempts from outside of the network require additional factors before being authenticated.
June 05, 2024

Microsoft Azure AD integration with Business Central

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Ron van Elteren
Technical Consultant
Schouw Informatisering / Aptean (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Incentivized
Return on Investment
  • Being able to use Azure AD with Business Central (which is our core business), we can show (potential) customers how well BC and Azure AD integrates with each other to even allow them features they didn't have in the past.
June 04, 2024

Entra ID by Microsoft: The Next Level of Authentication

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Administrator in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Incentivized
Return on Investment
  • Mange users from a simple web interface.
  • Stopped attacks on user accounts from blocking login attempts and attacks from countries that are blacklisted.
  • The self service password reset saves our helpdesk members valuable time.
June 04, 2024

Excellent cloud identity provider!

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Brandon Dieterich
Systems And Network Administrator
Southwestern University (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Incentivized
Return on Investment
  • While not specifically a monetary ROI, we've seen a great return on our time spent managing user accounts and SSO implementations. As almost everyone is compatible with Entra, it has been relatively easy to set up SSO for various services, and we spend less time managing user accounts(password resets, diagnosing login issues, etc.).
  • The reporting tools are also great for showing our administrative users (who are less tech-savvy) the added security benefits that Entra provides. It's easy to show them a report with the number of blocked sign-ins due to location restrictions, missing MFA requirements, or the number of "risky users" (potentially compromised accounts).
  • Being able to clearly demonstrate that all accounts are protected by a second factor has also lowered our insurance premiums, thus saving money for the entire organization.
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