Microsoft Entra ID Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Entra ID for security and compliance enhancements and to improve our productivity through MFA, SSO, and detailed access control. For the longest time, we had challenges managing multiple logins and securing user access. We used to maintain different passwords for different apps, which caused confusion and many password reset requests . This tool offered SSO that solved this issue of users sign once and have access to all our apps. Conditional access with MFA helps us block unauthorized access, providing strong security protection. Also, we like that it seamlessly integrates with our Microsoft systems, thus making identity and access management smooth and efficient.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Entra ID is used in my organization to cover a number of use cases. It acts as our identity provider for many line of business applications. It also provides added security for authenticated users by implementing conditional access and behavioral risk base scenarios. It also provide authention for applications that need to access M365 resources. Microsoft Entra ID has roles that are used to manage users permissions for M365 and Azure resources.

Likelihood to Recommend

My number one feature of Microsoft Entra ID that I think works really well is the Conditional Access feature. The additional protection that Conditional Access offers is amoung the best features of any identity provider there is in my opinion.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Entra ID to be the source of truth for all our identity needs. It allows us to create, change and delete users who pass through our organization, and provide access to those users authorized to do so. Microsoft Entra ID is easy to use once you have a bit of time in there, and although there are a few caveats, most of the time it's rock solid and makes identity and security a breeze.

Likelihood to Recommend

Honestly, it's either Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, or an on-prem solution. Most of my experience is in the Microsoft realm, so I'm pretty comfortable in Microsoft Entra ID. It's a complete identity and Active Directory solution, with loads of features and options... You just need to pay for the licensing, which is definitely not cheap, but the E3 and especially E5 comes with very cool features.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Entra ID as our primary form of login authentication.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well-suited for a hybrid or cloud environment. I would not suggest it for a company that solely uses on-premises authentication for logging into computers and email.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Entra ID for enhancing security and compliance and the tool has been great. The software comes with amazing security features including identity and access management. This means we're able to verify identities and ensures only authorized users access our critical infrastructure including data, networks, apps, and devices. The MFA features is fast enough and very reliable. In addition, the tool supports Single Sign-On which ensures faster access. I must say with Microsoft Entra ID in place, we have been able to protect our data, enhance compliance and effectively boost productivity.

Likelihood to Recommend

For protecting business sensitive data, apps and identity protection, I recommend Microsoft Entra ID. It is sufficiently equipped with amazing features including MFA and Single Sign On and ensures not only protection but also fast access to business critical infrastructure. It has served us well and any business would benefit.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Entra ID is the backbone of our infrastructure. It has largely replaced on-premise AD and allows for identity management, authentication, and authorization across both local and cloud providers. Having one source of truth that allows for anywhere authentication and authorization has revolutionized the game for us while providing high levels of trust via 2FA.

Likelihood to Recommend

Entra ID is a must for any organization for medium to large size. It may be a little overkill for extremely small organizations. However, anyone who needs to authenticate and authorize via on-premise and cloud solutions would benefit from the product. One of its major strengths and areas it shines is in the ubiquitous acceptance of its SSO.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We leverage Microsoft Entra ID Premium as our primary identity and access management solution. Our implementation serves as the central authentication hub for our cloud ecosystem. We use Microsoft Entra ID as SSO to our CRM, ITSM and other core tools. We also utilize many security features of Entra ID. These include for example conditional access policies and enforcing MFA to our users. Most of our customers are also involved in our Microsoft Entra ID directory as guest users.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is especially good for organizations that are otherwise in the Microsoft ecosystem (Microsoft 365 applications). Microsoft Entra ID is really well supported sign-in method in various SaaS-applications and they often have step-by-step guides how to deploy the SSO with Microsoft Entra ID. It's less suitable for organizations that might use other productivity tools than M365 or do not have Windows-based computers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have many AD domains hosted on our own hardware and synced with Entra ID primarily to enable SSO with Office 365, but also with various other services.

Being Microsoft, for 365 it is the simple solution. But as with anything Microsoft Cloud, every moment of using it is slow and painful. The website is so unresponsive it is like loading an image gallery on a 28800 modem in the 90s. But it does work.

Likelihood to Recommend

Generally Microsoft Entra ID is the default for people in my area of work, and an alternative is chosen when Microsoft Entra ID simply isn't viable. I'd say if you have a local DC and want easy SSO with 365, use it, but that's what people would probably do anyway. Once setup, adding additional SSO services is pretty straightforward, if you can get past the agony of how slow MS services are.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for everything for managing users, replacing Microsoft Entra ID, 2 factor authentication, RBAC, etc.

It is very good at being both very simple to use and very complex and nitty gritty when you need to buckle down to do something with it in regards to access.

It is also great that there are multiple ways to use it from the web ui or PowerShell.

We use it mostly as a replacement for Active Directory and have had no problems with it as well as for sharepoint access.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Microsoft Entra ID if someone is looking for an easy way to manage users if they are already using Microsoft accounts and emails. This is because then it is an easy solution to implement monitoring for any activity as well as managing/creating/deleting new users along with access controls. It is maybe less appropriate if they use another email solution as it would be redundant and annoying as you will have to deal with multiple accounts.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primary use Microsoft Entra ID for Centralize Identity Management and SSO.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is the best choice If you are Azure and Microsoft shop,

Other options are good for AWS or GCS