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    Microsoft Entra ID

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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.

    $6

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    Microsoft Entra ID
    Editions & Modules
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
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    Microsoft Entra ID
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Entra ID
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    It's better. It integrates with everything you already have.
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    So we use Delinea, on-prem, Duo, MFA, and Active Directory on-prem. So that's really our directory services. We've had some challenges with customization and things like that.
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    Technically, I have used G Suite solutions that are similar. It’s not one that I typically recommend, but I have. I also do occasionally use Microsoft’s legacy Active Directory solutions. This is a lot more convenient to get started. It’s also appropriate for clients that don’t …
    Incentivized
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    We used a product—I don't even know if they still exist—called Secret Double Octopus. We used Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services. We evaluated Okta and Ping as well. In most cases, much better. Although Secret Double Octopus had much better support for third-party …
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    AWS, Active Directory. It's their product, but Novell. Those are mainly the ones. Microsoft Entra ID is superior.
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    I wanted fewer products to manage.
    Incentivized
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    I try to get rid of Okta, and I'm trying to put everything into Microsoft Entra ID.
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    I can't think of any other product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    I've used Duo before. I've used CyberArk, CrowdStrike, Endpoint Identity. I've used Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft Entra ID is better because it has more native usage with other Microsoft products. So, yeah, it's better to have an easier place.
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    Google is the only other one I remember offhand. The little bit that I've used Google for, it provides stronger authentication and integrates with more products or more other systems I would put it in. Just Google as an authentication mechanism. Google accounts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    I would say probably IGA products, like the SailPoint Suite of products. Better integration across Microsoft Suite products.
    Incentivized
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    Quite frankly, we didn't really look at anything else because we were already a primarily Microsoft environment. We went straight for Microsoft Entra ID when we decided to focus on IAM.
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    I don't use it anymore, but I was working in Google's G Suite with Google for a while. Microsoft Entra ID just feels like it has more bells and whistles to actually play with, whereas Google's felt like they were just locked down behind more rules.
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    We've done stuff with Okta for Identity and Duo. Those would probably be the two big ones that I would say that people would recognize and stuff. There's some other smaller players we've talked to, but those are the two big ones that we play with. We're still using it. So, …
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    We haven't evaluated any other things because we've always been a Microsoft Shop, always been Active Directory.
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    Microsoft was selected due to our use of the Microsoft ecosystem and competitive pricing as a result. The offering was more extensive.
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    Because it’s already set up in our intro, tenant it made sense to use this instead of trying to reinvent the wheel
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    I'm not sure how this related to the selected products
    Incentivized
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    Pretty much, with this type of environment, we wanted to go with a Microsoft tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    The security ones, the endpoint protections, the ones that are related to email protection, with the CM, all the security ones. Well, normally we select the products more than that, because the customer already has. And in some cases, they have it because they buy a contract, a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    Several. So I've used Google ID, for example, which also enables single sign-on. For non-enterprise applications, I've used Facebook or GitHub login.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    Because it has more functionalities all around. So it can cover more of my users' use cases.
    Incentivized
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    We integrate with all the other identity providers. For me, as a consultant and engineer, it's very important to embrace the modern features and functionalities being made available in 2026, especially when it comes to platform SSO. And I've been working with Microsoft on that …
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    As I said, most people use Microsoft, so it's easy to integrate and use. I've been using Microsoft for more than 20 years, I believe.
    Incentivized
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    My dad was a sales engineer for a competitor, which is SalePoint Identity IQ or whatever they're calling it this year. They complement each other well. It's just that with each new year, with each new iteration, there are more duplicative capabilities. So I've seen some …
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    155 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    183 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Entra ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    123 Ratings
    5% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control9.1122 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.5119 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication9.2121 Ratings
    Password Management8.2113 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.5114 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation8.290 Ratings
    ID Risk Management7.797 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (241 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (57 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Overall, the Microsoft Entra ID platform is best utilized by people looking to have one platform that manages all interactions between other platforms. The Microsoft Entra ID platform allows for a seemless SSO integration, and can also integrate with Intune for MDM. Additionally, and probably the most easy to understand integration, is the integration with Active Directory, and controls associated with that.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Application integration is really good for single sign-on and managing identity overall. The correlation with Active Directory on-prem is really good, so we can manage it in a single place. It's easy to manage the users and integrate other Microsoft products. It is the base of everything else.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • I would like more risk policy suggestions. I guess that situation where we had outsourced employees in a country where somehow their location was changing too often, that we would have room to go, “Hey, this needs to be a lower risk.” Or maybe having easier options to let people log in when they're deemed high risk. It’s tricky because I feel like it’s really easy to do that wrong, but it’s the main area that I think could be improved. I guess also a little bit tighter administrative integration with other Microsoft products.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    From a user perspective, 10. From an admin perspective, 7 or 8. From the user perspective, it's very easy to use, but from the admin perspective, there's a lot of things that are not easily clear, testable, or verifiable without just trying a whole bunch of scenarios.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We've done stuff with Okta for Identity and Duo. Those would probably be the two big ones that I would say that people would recognize and stuff. There's some other smaller players we've talked to, but those are the two big ones that we play with. We're still using it. So, because it was integrated into everything we've already done, it just made it almost indispensable.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • We are doing a lot of sign-ins and working on it, and it worked quite well. We do have Microsoft support, so yes, we can handle all of the small issues we are sometimes having. But if you want to define it, I would say yes, we like it. Overall positive.
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