Microsoft Entra IDFormerly 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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Microsoft Entra ID - Must have tool for Large Enterprises
Easy to implement, Quick solution for Authentication Needs!
One of the best tool in Market for Authentication and Authorization
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An obvious choice for any large or small business firmly planted in the Microsoft ecosystem
An end-to-end user and identity management solution
Go to product for Identity and Access Management
General review of Azure Entra ID during ongoing cloud adoption
Fortifying Business Security with Seamless Authentication
Your one-stop identity shop!
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Popular Features
- Multi-Factor Authentication (85)9.191%
- ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (85)9.090%
- ID-Management Access Control (84)8.888%
- Password Management (81)8.282%
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Pricing
Premium P1
$6.00
Premium P2
$9.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
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Features
Identity Management
Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources
- 8.8ID-Management Access Control(84) Ratings
Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role
- 9ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)(85) Ratings
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
- 9.1Multi-Factor Authentication(85) Ratings
Using multiple, independent components to gain access
- 8.2Password Management(81) Ratings
Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.
- 8.4Account Provisioning and De-provisioning(80) Ratings
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
- 8.2ID Management Workflow Automation(62) Ratings
Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes
- 8.5ID Risk Management(64) Ratings
Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences
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What is Microsoft Entra ID?
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.
What is Microsoft Entra ID?
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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
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Microsoft Entra ID Competitors
- JumpCloud
- Okta
- One Login
Microsoft Entra ID Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-25 of 63)Microsoft Entra ID - Must have tool for Large Enterprises
- Application SSO management
- Application Auth using App registrations
- Conditional Access policies
- External user management
- Sometimes Azure just breaks and doesn't show proper details
- The sync process from on-premises can be improved
- it uses User Principal name rather than Email to authenticate
Easy to implement, Quick solution for Authentication Needs!
- The SDK implementation is easy and quick with .NET
- We did not face any issues with the integration with our app
- Microsoft Entra ID was fast and secure
- Entra IDs dashboard got a bit complex than previous
- There should be a good and cheaper support plan for Entra ID issues
- Vendor lock-in
One of the best tool in Market for Authentication and Authorization
- Reliable: We can rely on the authentication process and protocols it uses.
- Fault-tolerant: Because of multiple DCs,,, its fault-tolerant so easy life for us engineers
- Easy to manage: UI is easy to understand
- It should have an in-built password generation tool that generates passwords based on set AD password policies, and we can use that to reset user passwords.
- There should be a one-click feature to check the resultant GPOs being applied to any machine or user.
An obvious choice for any large or small business firmly planted in the Microsoft ecosystem
- SSO across all Microsoft platforms
- Easy to manage users and privileges
- Easy to implement MFA options
- Support has been less responsive than we'd like. Sometimes, responses/callbacks can take days.
- There seem to be some credential conflicts with users who had "personal" accounts in the past using the same email address.
- Would like more options for chat-based troubleshooting, rather than phone or email.
Go to product for Identity and Access Management
- Supports modern authentications.
- Easy to implement in any environment.
- Easy to manage the identities.
- Provides great security to the user accounts.
- More customizations to signin page
- Entra ID custom Roles should have been extended list of permissions
- Add a backup solution for entra ID during disaster recovery
General review of Azure Entra ID during ongoing cloud adoption
- Authentication & Authorization
- Integration with cloud solutions
- Useful security standards around password complexity, etc...
- Fairly expensive
- Limited reporting
Currently we mainly integrate cloud solutions/applications with Microsoft Entra ID, while keeping our locally developped apps integrated with on-prem solutions.
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- Microsoft Entra ID's biometric authentication improves security and streamlines user access through facial recognition and fingerprint scanning, which are reliable and practical.
- Users can easily confirm their identities using biometrics, smart cards, or PINs, increasing security without disrupting business operations.
- Microsoft Entra ID provides us with a thorough security comprehension by allowing us to effectively manage user identities, regulate access entitlements, and track authentication events.
- Initial deployment and configuration may require careful preparation and experience.
- The program may require a lot of resources, particularly during heavy traffic.
- Additionally, we occasionally encountered compatibility issues with outdated systems, necessitating further adaptations for seamless integration.
Your one-stop identity shop!
- Identity management
- integration with most software tools
- security features and plugins
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- Syncing
- SSO
- MFA
- SSO
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- Manage users from one interface.
- Easy to check user activity in case of an audit.
- Adding permissions to an application so it can send emails for example using graph API
- A lot of good features are paywalled behind expensive monthly subscriptions.
- Would be nice to have an option even if paid to conserve more than 7 days of user activity logs.
- Having the option to add some paid features without buying a bundle.
- The use has given us the reason that until now, with Entra ID, we have had a superior user experience than what we have had with other programs according to the fact that logging is super easy and very fast and the multicloud environment allows access from anywhere easily.
- Identity management is easy; I place a strong point on the visibility and control given to the applications. I believe that in this sense, they have made an effort to create a safe, intuitive and easy-to-learn environment for the average user.
- Authentication and access to data are strong; they have an encryption mode that protects each kb, this makes us feel safe.
- The integration of apps from Workforce is very convenient, you can integrate from any device even when you are traveling and this does not generate any inconvenience, blocking, etc.
- I consider only one aspect to be wrong, which is the cost structure. First, I could talk about the structure model provided by the vendors. It is a very complicated spreadsheet to understand for any user who is not from the IT department. Let's say that if you want to request budget and approve a budget you do not have the capacity for sufficient information at the moment to justify the purchase, why are there concepts only understandable for an IT engineer, I think this should be simplified for the reading comprehension of any individual, a simple spreadsheet, brief, and with plans for use only so that we can understand the marketing and financial areas of each company.
Microsoft Entra ID bridged the gap for our users.
- Single Sign-On.
- Multi factor Authentication (MFA).
- Microsoft 365 User Management.
- Depth of the administration menus often makes things hard to find.
- Some basic, security-centric features are only available with paid per-user subscriptions -- such as restricting logins based on country.
- Reporting and alerting is limited.
Great product, but you'll pay for it
- Conditional Access Rules
- Logs (limited time by default)
- Integration with 3rd party
- Logs (security should be a basic, not a paid feature)
- Price (you can do lot of things but must of them depend on the license, and the most interesting ones are always on the top one)
- Stop changing names (this was Azure AD before, no need to change names, it can be confusing some times)
If you're not using any Microsoft products, either on-prem or on Azure... maybe it's not your best choice, as it'll be more expensive than other solutions.
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- User management
- Role Management
- Multi factor authentication
- They could stop changing things so often, hard to find things if you don't use them frequently.
- Occasional outages are annoying, and the alerts not terribly helpful sometimes. they tell you when something is down, but don't always notify when its back up.
- Things are deprecated fairly often, so don't get too invested in one way of doing things, you may have to change how things work in the future.
Not so much if you're just using it as an IDP for other services. It does try to take over somethings (like MX and DNS records) that you may want to keep having managed/hosted at 3rd parties.
Microsoft Entra ID for security and user comfort
In my org we use Microsoft Entra ID for security and ease of access for our users. First, we deployed self-service password reset to all of our users, which required they enter some additional information like personal contact info. This required some training on our part to let everyone know what was happening. Then, multi factor authentication and the Microsoft Authenticator provide protection. Once we had deployed MFA and had 100% adoption, we introduced phone sign-on so users did not need to use passwords when signing in.
We have also implemented conditional access to require MFA for all apps, and to block access if certain thresholds are met for failed sign-ins or unusual activity.
- Identity security
- Ease of access
- User risk management
- Conditional access
- Changes are not often clearly communicated unless you know where to look and have the correct email subscriptions.
- High learning curve.
Great product
- It manages users well
- We can tell where are users are signing in from
- We can tell why our user sign in failed
- I would like more security features built into Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID formerly Azure Active Directory.
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Conditional Access.
- SSO
- External Identities.
- Consolidated Portal rather than different portals for everything.
Amazing identity management and security
- Assign users into groups dynamically based on user profile details.
- Secure authentication using easy app based MFA.
- User authentication intelligence that identifies unusual behavior and flags of blocks suspicious login attempts.
- Manage permissions for sensitive internal resources like the internet or project teams.
- Automatically assign licenses based on user properties or group membership
- Nesting of group membership does not allow email to be delivered to group members.
- User profile properties are somewhat rigid, creating custom attributes could be much easier and more functional.
- There are so many features navigation is somewhat challenging to remember if you are not a daily user.
Creating a secure environment where identify and access are highly secure and authenticated is very easy to manage and user.
It also allows for various levels of administrative access. You can give certain people access to user administration without having to give them access to other administrative functions.
In my experience, there really isn’t a size or scope of company that could not benefit from Microsoft Entra ID.
Excellent cloud identity provider!
- Single Sign On.
- Security (Multifactor authentication).
- User management.
- The Entra ID interface has numerous options. It is sometimes easy to get lost looking for something.
- The recent name change from Azure has confused some of our users, thinking they were logging into the wrong portal. This generated numerous calls to our help desk.
- MS will change the locations of things inside their interface at will. Sometimes, they notify you beforehand, and others do not.
Great identity management in the cloud!
- Identity management.
- App registration.
- Multi-factor authentication.
- Directory synchronisation.
- The UI could be more intuitive.
- Pricing options could be clearer.
- A few parts of the UI and platform are still in preview.
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- Well we have just little issues and try to figure out.
- We have some IP location issues and alerts and these kind of things. We are trying to figure this out because we have employees who are in different locations and are trying to access. Sometimes we have false positive alerts and country sets. Try to figure out those things.
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- Logging when there's enough storage. So recent logging, there's good conditional access policies. And I mean SSO MFAs pretty decent, so good I guess particularly well. And then on the SSO side, integration with apps and whatnot out there on the web does it very well. Obviously it's Microsoft
- There's a lot of stuff that's kind of cobbled together. It's hard to find dashboards, it's hard to find configuration settings because they're not always in the same spot or they're renamed, the look and feel of reports, analysis tools, configurations can vary wildly from area to area. So there's a lot of cohesion that needs to be done for it to really be better.
Microsoft Entra ID is a great identity solution.
- Foundation for O365.
- Mechanism for modern authentication (SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
- Feature-rich with controls like Conditional Access to enforce MFA and other access restrictions to company applications.
- I would like to see more low-code automation options.
- Default options need to be set more restrictive to prevent accidentally relaxed security settings.
- I would like to see more streamlined configuration pages. Many similar or related settings are scattered across different pages.
Great Identity Authentication Tool from Microsoft
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Azure AD integration
- Process for verifying identity is a bit cumbersome and time-consuming, this can be improved
Microsoft Entra ID is secure and reliable authentication platform
- Multi Factor Authentication
- Easy Integration
- Single Sign-on
- complicated pricing
- lack of low-level technical configuration