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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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 …
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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.
Chose Microsoft Entra ID
Because it has more functionalities all around. So it can cover more of my users' use cases.
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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.
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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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Maybe for some applications, we try to evaluate our firewalls with Okta. That also looks like a familiar feature as a Microsoft Entra ID.
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It's already implemented at most of our customers, so it's already there.
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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.
Chose Microsoft Entra ID
Okta One. Log on. Hint, this was the best because we're mainly a Microsoft shop.
Features
Microsoft Entra ID
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
8.5
116 Ratings
3% above category average
ID-Management Access Control8.9114 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.2114 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.1115 Ratings
Password Management8.0109 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.4108 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation7.887 Ratings
ID Risk Management8.091 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(170 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
(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
9.7
(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
If you have a mixed solution, such as different types of devices with different types of operating systems, it could be more complicated. But if you have already decided that your company will be a Microsoft company in terms of everything internally running with Microsoft software, like the operating system, Windows 11, then this is probably the best way to use it. So if you have mixed or hybrid solutions or scenarios, maybe it's not exactly what you mean.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Many people at our company work remotely, including the sales and procurement teams. So people usually travel from one country to another country. Some people travel to Australia or some people travel to Canada based on the business requirements. So we usually audit the sign-in logs and verify whether the user is valid while they're using our company's email ID to perform their day-to-day operations.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • I say "cost" on a per-user basis for smaller organizations, which is why Microsoft has small-business programs. I'm trying to figure out if anything is uniquely gripping. I guess transitions to and from, but to be honest, that's where we live. The difficulty of adopting Microsoft Entra ID when you didn't start there as an organization is a little bit sizable, but that's the case with any identity provider. It's not anything endemic to Microsoft Entra ID. It works. It's efficient.
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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
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 the easiest way to extend identity management to the cloud if you already have Microsoft Active Directory in use.
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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 managing costs was probably the biggest one as a nonprofit. We're always worried about the financial impact that any product can have. And as licenses change or they are shut down, migrating to the proper product without going over budget is always something we are concerned about. But for the most part, it's been positive. Microsoft works for us as nonprofits to make sure that we get very fair pricing.
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