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Microsoft Entra External IDFormerly Azure Active Directory External Identities
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What is Microsoft Entra External ID?
Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications…
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Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.00325
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per month per active users
Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.01625
Cloud
per month per active users
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Microsoft Entra External ID?
Microsoft Entra External ID is a customer identity access management (CIAM) solution
The solution is capable of supporting millions of users and billions of authentications per day. It takes care of the scaling and safety of the authentication platform, monitoring, and automatically handling threats like denial-of-service, password spray, or brute force attacks.
The solution is capable of supporting millions of users and billions of authentications per day. It takes care of the scaling and safety of the authentication platform, monitoring, and automatically handling threats like denial-of-service, password spray, or brute force attacks.
Who uses Microsoft Entra External ID?
Any business or individual who wishes to authenticate end users to their web/mobile applications using a white-label authentication solution. Apart from authentication, the service is used for authorization such as access to API resources by authenticated users. It is meant to be used by IT administrators and developers.
Custom-branded identity solution
Microsoft Entra External ID is a white-label authentication solution. The user experience can be customized with a brand so that it blends with web and mobile applications. Pages displayed when users sign up, sign in, and modify their profile information can also be customized. Customize the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in user journeys so that the Microsoft Entra External ID experience looks and feels like it's a native part of the application.
Single sign-on access with a user-provided identity
Microsoft Entra External ID uses standards-based authentication protocols including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). It integrates with most modern applications and commercial off-the-shelf software.
Integrate with external user stores
Microsoft Entra External ID provides a directory that can hold 100 custom attributes per user. However, the solution can be integrated with external systems. For example, it can be used for authentication, but delegate to an external customer relationship management (CRM) or customer loyalty database as the source of truth for customer data.
Single sign-on access with a user-provided identity
Microsoft Entra External ID uses standards-based authentication protocols including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). It integrates with most modern applications and commercial off-the-shelf software.
Integrate with external user stores
Microsoft Entra External ID provides a directory that can hold 100 custom attributes per user. However, the solution can be integrated with external systems. For example, it can be used for authentication, but delegate to an external customer relationship management (CRM) or customer loyalty database as the source of truth for customer data.
Another external user store scenario is to have Microsoft Entra External ID handle the authentication for an application, but integrate with an external system that stores user profile or personal data. For example, to satisfy data residency requirements like regional or on-premises data storage policies. However, the Microsoft Entra External ID service itself is worldwide via the Azure public cloud.
Progressive profiling
Another user journey option includes progressive profiling. Progressive profiling allows customers to coomplete their first transaction by collecting a minimal amount of information. Then, gradually collect more profile data from the customer on future sign-ins.
Third-party identity verification and proofing
Microsoft Entra External ID can be used to facilitate identity verification and proofing by collecting user data, then passing it to a third-party system to perform validation, trust scoring, and approval for user account creation.
Microsoft Entra External ID Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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September 14, 2023
Azure Active Directory B2C Review
Azure Active Directory B2C helps provide seamless access to all the services and apps to the people either working on-site or working remotely and helps them stay productive. With the graphical overview of monthly activity, the Azure Active Directory B2C also makes it simple to manage all sign-ins. It is very reliable and secure.
We use Azure AD B2C solution for one of our clients who need to authenticate end users to their mobile application and support their backbone as IT admins. It helped us to address and facilitate identity verification by gathering user data. Moreover, the progressive profiling feature helped their customers to complete their first transaction quickly and efficiently.
October 04, 2022
Scalable and easy to implement solution with great visibility
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
We use the Azure Active Directory B2C service to authorize access to our own custom web applications via API access. It is mainly used for authentication, control and monitoring of external users such as developers, and also for security reasons to defend against, for example, Denial of service, password hashing or brute force attacks.
September 21, 2022
Azure Active Directory B2C greatly connects with its peoples world
It help us to keep track of our teams groups and manage the user roles very easily. This also makes it easy to manage our sign in's with a nice overview chart of your monthly activity. There are a lot of apps and add-ins that work with this service. It works well with Microsoft Dynamics. There are a lot of tutorials that walk you through setting up and using this product. It's really a great turn-key system that is very secure and user friendly.
September 14, 2022
Cloud based - Business to Consumer
Azure Active Directory B2C allows users to sign into parts of our systems using multifactor authentication while still accessing the parts that do not need the added protection. The predefined user flows help create user experiences and access quickly, while the custom policies are for a more robust scenario. Both are unique and tailored to our needs.
February 25, 2022
Awesome product, lousy marketing -- it's Azure's best-kept secret!
Azure Active Directory B2C is our go-to platform for customer identity and access management (CIAM) needs, both for our internally-developed applications and products as well as for our clients' customer-facing applications. Despite the name, Azure Active Directory B2C excels at both business-to-consumer and business-to-business ("B2B") functionality; I often explain to people that "B2C" should be read as "business-to-customer." We have used Azure Active Directory B2C for everything from prototype apps and small business scenarios to very large enterprises with millions of user accounts.