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Microsoft Entra ID
Formerly 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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Popular Features

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  • Multi-Factor Authentication (85)
    9.1
    91%
  • ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (85)
    9.0
    90%
  • ID-Management Access Control (84)
    8.8
    88%
  • Password Management (81)
    8.2
    82%

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Pricing

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Premium P1

$6.00

Cloud
per user/per month

Premium P2

$9.00

Cloud
per user/per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.microsoft.com/en…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

AD FS to Microsoft Entra | How to migrate cloud apps

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Microsoft Entra ID Beginner's Tutorial (Azure Active Directory)

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Introducing Microsoft Entra

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Features

Identity Management

Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

8.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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 integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

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.


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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

Microsoft Entra ID Video

Authentication fundamentals: The basics | Azure Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID Competitors

Microsoft Entra ID Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

JumpCloud are common alternatives for Microsoft Entra ID.

Reviewers rate Multi-Factor Authentication highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Microsoft Entra ID are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For an organization that is by default not in the Active Directory system, this tool allowed us to bring fresh approach in managing our resources, be it endpoints, users, GPOs and users' grouping via OUs.We are using the Microsoft Entra ID for 200 of our users that are subscribed to M365 product suite and manage them from here.
In what aspects are this tool being used in our organization ?
1. Access provisioning to certain resources
2. Access decommissioning to those resources
3. M365 Administration including OneDrive for business
4. Endpoint protections definition and orchestration
5. Sentinel protection

All in short, we are using as the door, both entry and exit, to manage our Microsoft's environment, there are still so much can be done with this tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is useful for integration with On-premise active directory through Azure AD provisioning. Plus it is helpful in assigning default licenses through the use of Microsoft Graph APIs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure) is a great product that we utilize for deploying VMs, integrating SSO within applications, managing users, groups, and inboxes, and more. While the online software is not always intuitive for administrators to use (the UI changes frequently) and the name change caused a great amount of confusion, the product is solid, mature, and most of all does the job in all the categories mentioned above.
Rohan Kumar Panda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Entra ID in sync with the On-Premises Active Directory. We are using it to manage internal as well as external users from trusted domains. We also use this to manage Application Authentication using App registrations, Application SSO management using Enterprise Applications and Application access configuration using Entra ID Groups. We also use features like Conditional Access policies, Named locations etc
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Microsoft Entra ID formally known as Azure Active Directory to authenticate our users(both internal and external users) to our portal. Entra ID helped us enable SSO to our application, where users had their Azure/ Office 365 accounts and we were able to provide a quick login with authentication and authorization on our product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for authentication and authorization with in our organization. We also use it for SSO. We manage user objects, computer objects, Groups, Printers etc via Microsoft Entra ID. Via Microsoft Entra ID we centrally manage all the auth policies and make sure users have limited access to resources based on their role, neither more nor less. We also manage Microsoft Entra ID integrated DNS for proper name resolution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Entra ID to manage our user credentials and privileges across the MS 365 platform. As a small company, it's important to have IT systems that are easy to implement, manage, and grow. And they need to be reliable and play nice with the rest of our environment. Since we use Microsoft products across the board, Microsoft Entra ID is the obvious solution.
Yash Mudaliar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called as Azure Active Directory) is the being used as an identity provider in my organization. Ideally the business problem that it solves is the management of user accounts and access management for those users. Beyond this, our use case also involves using Entra for access reviews, privileged identity management, group management, device management, application identity management, enabling business collaborations and customer identity management and identity protection.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Entra ID is a one place for managing all kinds of identities. It supports modern authentication protocols and provide security to signins via Conditional access. PIM, Identity Protection, Hybrid Identities, External Identities are other features available in Entra ID. Privileged Identity Management provide right access to right people. JIT also supported.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Entra ID to provide authentication & authorization to our end users for all cloud solutions that are used within the company. It provides easy single sign-on capabilities to a lot of enterprise applications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Microsoft Entra ID, which made authentication faster and increased business security. This innovative program ensures secure access to sensitive financial data by addressing significant business challenges and improving our financial operation's efficiency and security. It strengthens financial security and streamlines authentication procedures.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The rebranded Azure Active Directory (Microsoft Entra ID) is the core identity management platform for our organisation, and for many of our MSP customers. It provides us with Single Sign On to many enterprise applications, and really is the heart of everything IT related.
September 26, 2023

Microsoft Entra ID

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
used for our hybrid environment of Office365 (Azure AD and on prem AD). this is currently addressing our MFA and moving to the autheicator method. this also give us the ability of risky logs to see if anyone's account are trying to be attacked
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Entra ID with a hybrid AD and Exchange for our office 365 setup, we use AD sync to synchronize our users with Entra ID. We use Entra ID to manage applications access to send email and other functions with the graph API and we also use Entra ID to check users that are possibly compromised and manage MFA within the same interface.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Necessarily in the machinery company, it is necessary to keep control of many situations such as product inventories, new machinery, suppliers, customer information and so on. We had a main problem of allowing access on the one hand to collaborators and on the other hand to clients but we were distrustful Of our own access solutions, Microsoft with its login service provided and guaranteed support for certain colleagues or clients to access certain information they needed for their work and information.It has helped us manage users and create internal security.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD, as a bridge between local and cloud AD and for unified user management and single sign-on access to our cloud-based resources, such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, with the added benefit of multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Entra ID is our cloud identity provider. We use it as part of the Azure core products, but also as idp for all the cloud applications that we have currently in place. It makes it a lot easier to deploy security measures, due to the possibility to apply conditional access rules, and also it's easy to manage both from the gui and from the console.
September 26, 2023

Entra ID a simple overview

John Robinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Probably the best known tool for Active Directory management. Integrates with just about any other online software that needs an ID provider (as it's so well known). Not always the easiest to set up or use at times, but the support documentation is good and online community is very large. Useful for managing security, and identity of staff and guest users to our systems.
Mike Paron | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) for more than five years. We have used Microsoft 365 Identity Protection (now known as Microsoft Entra ID) for three years.

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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Microsoft Entra ID for the authentication and authorization of Web Applications for users that are using from outside company premise and we also implemented conditional access and different policies to restrict access to certain resources and types of devices, locations, and other variables like device compliance, antivirus updates, windows patches requirement for the user to access the applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We need to manage many discreet groups of people and their access to systems and licensing base on multiple criteria. We have staff who are various kinds of employees as well as volunteers. In addition to our staff/volunteers we also have associates that are involved but do not need the full spectrum of Microsoft 365 services. Additionally we have an intranet and hundreds of teams that need access permissions based on identity. A tool like Microsoft Entra ID is essential to managing this successfully.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Entra ID for managing and administering the company users in an unique centralized management point.
You can manage user's permissions, apply security directives, provides a security layer in order to protect users, applications and other resources, and improves user's experience with SSO.
Helps organizations to manage permissions assigned to users, always keeping in mind least privilege directive and managing the permissions full lifecycle.
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