Microsoft Entra ID

Overview
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Microsoft Entra ID
Score 8.9 out of 10
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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.
$6
per user/per month
Pricing
Microsoft Entra ID
Editions & Modules
Premium P1
$6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2
$9.00
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Entra ID
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Entra ID
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It is a lot easier to administer Microsoft Entra ID compare to Ping. Microsoft Entra ID is a lot more intuitive and easy to understand. Microsoft Entra ID is more flexible when integrating SaaS solutions. Implementing passwordless and conditional access policies to add an …
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Microsoft Entra ID is really the only solution for a full Microsoft shop. I've had some experience with Google Workspace, and although it has it's advantages, Microsoft Entra ID really feels like a true business solution.
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We have enjoyed Entra ID more, due to its ability to store password hashes and not need a persistent connection to our on-prem servers. If the connection goes down, users can no longer reset passwords, but they can still log in. With Duo, they could not log in if the on-prem …
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Microsoft Entra ID offers the same or very similar services to the other products but in a package that is familiar and recognizable to everyone. It enjoys better community support and world-class security and reliability.
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Microsoft Entra ID is not as stand-alone product as competitors like Okta. It may lack some of the features that competing products have but on the other hand it integrates both technically and license wise with other Microsoft cloud services and is easy to deploy. It is also …
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We adopted both the endpoint security platforms and of course the cloud security platform. So when we sell Iku for our products, we also sell the licenses both for defender, for endpoint, and of course Microsoft 365 Premier. And we work for integrating the security model of the …
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Only used Active Directory before and Microsoft Entra ID does the same job that we use use AD for but in a centralized cloud based environment. This makes it easier to manage from anywhere and it also saves us the cost of having to buy a physical server to put onsite.
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I haven't used other products like Microsoft Entra ID.
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Xporter is more of a basic data interchange tool compared to Microsoft Entra ID which by far more superior with it's out of the box options and we find isn't as complex to setup. Microsoft Entra ID is far more scalable too, allowing us to control synchronization schedules and …
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We find that this is more integrated into various apps, which provides an almost single pane of control for access to our device and user estate.
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No, I think we use most of the Microsoft 365 application.
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Okta One. Log on. Hint, this was the best because we're mainly a Microsoft shop.
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Google Workspace is really pretty much the only other primary competitor. And again, Microsoft has just been the standard for so many years and it was in place at the organization when I was first brought on at the beginning of my tenure. And so it didn't seem logical to switch …
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More people are already using it, so makes sense of using this one.
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Yeah, so basically that product to be honest, was more of a getting comfortable with cloud identification management. So that was a product I used. It has all the policies for desktops and doing updates and all that central directory identity provisioning stuff for users. Users …
Chose Microsoft Entra ID
Because we use a lot of other Microsoft products, so my inclination is more towards Entra ID because it's a Microsoft system. And we'll find support for Microsoft more than any other software. So that's why I lean more towards Microsoft.
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I haven't evaluated other products like this.
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We use DUO as another IDP solution and we also evaluated Okta as a solution. We didn't have a choice to be honest, because Microsoft products, you can't get away with it, but it's built in and a bunch of other providers have it as authentication, so it's great.
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We've used other Microsoft products and we've also used some standalone products, like each application you can have its own identity, so we've looked at some of those too, but we try to use the Entra ID as much as possible because it offers a wider range of reliability.
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Google Directory. We've evaluated Okta as well for SO. Those are the two. I mean, we selected this one because we want it to be a Microsoft shop.
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We actually did just the Microsoft Active directory, so we picked the actual. We did just pure active directory. I mean the open LDAP stuff, but it didn't quite work that well.
Features
Microsoft Entra ID
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
8.5
114 Ratings
3% above category average
ID-Management Access Control8.9112 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.1112 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.1113 Ratings
Password Management8.2107 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.4106 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation7.785 Ratings
ID Risk Management7.989 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(170 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.6
(16 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(28 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
9.6
(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
Microsoft Entra ID provides powerful and reliable identity and access management capabilities that enhance secure authentication and authorization for cloud systems. Offer modern security features, including MFA, conditional access, and threat intelligence, to protect identities and prevent unauthorized access. Single Sign-On allows us to access multiple apps with just a single login.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Single Sign-on helps ease the user experience, allowing users to avoid typing multiple passwords.
  • The identity and management are straightforward to use and easy to connect to other applications, as well as third-party applications.
  • The support of remote work. Nowadays, many people work from home and need to access their accounts. Microsoft Enterprise ID gives secure access to the company data.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • For larger organizations the policy management user interface gets complex
  • Security group nesting limitations - you cannot always nest groups within groups depending on the group types and use case
  • Price gets high if you need the enterprise or P2 premium licenses
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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
Simply because of what I mentioned earlier, the feature set sort of keeps changing and they do a lot of, they integrated with a lot of the other tools and so for users who are not as well seasoned, it may be a little bit more complicated for them to begin working within the tool.
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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
Yeah, so basically that product to be honest, was more of a getting comfortable with cloud identification management. So that was a product I used. It has all the policies for desktops and doing updates and all that central directory identity provisioning stuff for users. Users and I will have an advantage because right now you get it from the time you get email, you get it, it is there, right? I mean you don't have to pay for anything. And then Microsoft, depending on your interest file license you have Access to Defender and all of those other nice products that compliment Entra ID. So I think that Entra ID is more rich. There's more potential as the business scales if that other product, you can't really scale as much as it was good because I deal with a lot of small medium size enterprises. I do a lot of more consulting type firms. They don't have more than 20 consultants and they just need a system whether it's for their legal activities, finance activities, et cetera. But in terms of having an email is very important to so many companies. So it's so easy to use the Entra ID and easy to expand more value for money for clients.
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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
  • I think it's had positive. It's enabled us to make authentication easier and more streamlined across the organization from frontline workers to back office workers.
  • It's allowed us to really adopt authentication policies and methods that suit that user and their work environment.
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