Microsoft Entra IDFormerly 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…
Microsoft Entra ID: A hub of connecting SaaS applications
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Microsoft Entra ID - Must have tool for Large Enterprises
Easy to implement, Quick solution for Authentication Needs!
One of the best tool in Market for Authentication and Authorization
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An obvious choice for any large or small business firmly planted in the Microsoft ecosystem
An end-to-end user and identity management solution
Go to product for Identity and Access Management
General review of Azure Entra ID during ongoing cloud adoption
Fortifying Business Security with Seamless Authentication
Your one-stop identity shop!
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Popular Features
- Multi-Factor Authentication (85)9.191%
- ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (85)9.090%
- ID-Management Access Control (84)8.888%
- Password Management (81)8.282%
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Pricing
Premium P1
$6.00
Premium P2
$9.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
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Features
Identity Management
Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources
- 8.8ID-Management Access Control(84) Ratings
Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role
- 9ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)(85) Ratings
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
- 9.1Multi-Factor Authentication(85) Ratings
Using multiple, independent components to gain access
- 8.2Password Management(81) Ratings
Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.
- 8.4Account Provisioning and De-provisioning(80) Ratings
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
- 8.2ID Management Workflow Automation(62) Ratings
Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes
- 8.5ID Risk Management(64) Ratings
Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences
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What is Microsoft Entra ID?
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.
What is Microsoft Entra ID?
What is Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID?
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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
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Microsoft Entra ID Competitors
- JumpCloud
- Okta
- One Login
Microsoft Entra ID Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-25 of 34)Fortifying Business Security with Seamless Authentication
- Microsoft Entra ID's biometric authentication improves security and streamlines user access through facial recognition and fingerprint scanning, which are reliable and practical.
- Users can easily confirm their identities using biometrics, smart cards, or PINs, increasing security without disrupting business operations.
- Microsoft Entra ID provides us with a thorough security comprehension by allowing us to effectively manage user identities, regulate access entitlements, and track authentication events.
- Initial deployment and configuration may require careful preparation and experience.
- The program may require a lot of resources, particularly during heavy traffic.
- Additionally, we occasionally encountered compatibility issues with outdated systems, necessitating further adaptations for seamless integration.
Microsoft Entra ID bridged the gap for our users.
- Single Sign-On.
- Multi factor Authentication (MFA).
- Microsoft 365 User Management.
- Depth of the administration menus often makes things hard to find.
- Some basic, security-centric features are only available with paid per-user subscriptions -- such as restricting logins based on country.
- Reporting and alerting is limited.
Great product, but you'll pay for it
- Conditional Access Rules
- Logs (limited time by default)
- Integration with 3rd party
- Logs (security should be a basic, not a paid feature)
- Price (you can do lot of things but must of them depend on the license, and the most interesting ones are always on the top one)
- Stop changing names (this was Azure AD before, no need to change names, it can be confusing some times)
If you're not using any Microsoft products, either on-prem or on Azure... maybe it's not your best choice, as it'll be more expensive than other solutions.
Entra ID a simple overview
- User management
- Role Management
- Multi factor authentication
- They could stop changing things so often, hard to find things if you don't use them frequently.
- Occasional outages are annoying, and the alerts not terribly helpful sometimes. they tell you when something is down, but don't always notify when its back up.
- Things are deprecated fairly often, so don't get too invested in one way of doing things, you may have to change how things work in the future.
Not so much if you're just using it as an IDP for other services. It does try to take over somethings (like MX and DNS records) that you may want to keep having managed/hosted at 3rd parties.
Microsoft Entra ID for security and user comfort
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.
- Identity security
- Ease of access
- User risk management
- Conditional access
- Changes are not often clearly communicated unless you know where to look and have the correct email subscriptions.
- High learning curve.
Microsoft Entra ID formerly Azure Active Directory.
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Conditional Access.
- SSO
- External Identities.
- Consolidated Portal rather than different portals for everything.
Excellent cloud identity provider!
- Single Sign On.
- Security (Multifactor authentication).
- User management.
- The Entra ID interface has numerous options. It is sometimes easy to get lost looking for something.
- The recent name change from Azure has confused some of our users, thinking they were logging into the wrong portal. This generated numerous calls to our help desk.
- MS will change the locations of things inside their interface at will. Sometimes, they notify you beforehand, and others do not.
Great identity management in the cloud!
- Identity management.
- App registration.
- Multi-factor authentication.
- Directory synchronisation.
- The UI could be more intuitive.
- Pricing options could be clearer.
- A few parts of the UI and platform are still in preview.
Microsoft Entra ID is secure and reliable authentication platform
- Multi Factor Authentication
- Easy Integration
- Single Sign-on
- complicated pricing
- lack of low-level technical configuration
If you have Windows and Microsort365 or Azure apps, you can dramatically improve the level of security with Microsoft Entra ID!
- It makes it possible to manage system access in an easy way.
- It makes publishing the system to the internet safe.
- If possible, I want to receive a quicker response.
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- Managing Users
- Managing groups
- Setting up multi factor Authentication
- Setting up B2B cross tenant
- None
One identity (aka Microsoft Entra ID)
- Multi-factor authentication integration
- Active Directory federation services works very well with on-prem AD
- Integrated very well with other Microsoft tools (Office 365, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.)
- Organization of the homepage/portal seems to change a lot
- Security reporting could be setup to be more intuitive
- The application proxy setup can be easier to setup and understand
We also use the federation services a tremendous amount to synchronize with our on-prem environment.
Some of the application proxy setups don't work very well with some of our internal applications and information to help troubleshoot is difficult to find.
Azure Active Directory = Microsoft Entra ID
- Microsoft Entra integrates and functions very well with other applications/tools since it was developed by Microsoft.
- Entra provides us the abilities to implement conditional access policies to require additional verifications (or lack thereof if needed) before granting access to a resource.
- The ability to implement passwordless logins via Windows Hello or Authenticator sign-ins is extremely useful as companies transition to Zero Trust
- Sometimes navigation in Entra ID can be challenging because (due to all the features) options are often buried deep in the site. This can slow up technicians until they get familiar with exactly what section they need to navigate to in order to perform a specific function/task.
- To further expand on the above statement, Microsoft has a history of moving and/or renaming functions and products so it can be a challenge to find features at times.
- Due to the sheer amount of features that Entra ID offers, it has a very steep learning curve to fully understand everything it can do....and how to use/configure each function.
Review of Microsoft Authenticator
- Microsoft Authenticator also supports passwordless login options
- fingerprint and facial recognition
- support of Azure Active Directory
- ability to use the app to generate one-time passcodes, as well as push notifications
- the app can be difficult to use and navigate
- Microsoft Authenticator currently only supports a limited number of languages
- Microsoft Authenticator is only available on mobile devices, it does not have a web version or a desktop app
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Review
- Integration with third part cloud-based applications - e.g. CRM
- Flawless authentication with On-Premises Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Workload or tenant creation is pretty easy on Microsoft Azure Active Directory and configuration of Microsoft Azure Active Directory eases the life of the Administrator
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory works with Microsoft multi-factor services.
- A maximum of 100 users can be part of a single group which creates an obstacle for a large organization
- Non Admin create only 250 groups which create dependencies on admins.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Basic user management with full metadata
- Single Sign On
- Multi factor authentication
- Some of the most desirable advanced features are seemingly only available in bundles
- licensing is confusing
- The speed of evolution has made this a good suite of services, but it is exhausting to keep up with the rate of change.
The simplicity of management using Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- We departmentalize our users by schools
- We departmentatize our users by departments
- We use this to keep up with what rights we allow specific users
- We have been active directory users for many years and do appreciate the ease of functionality
- We use FinPlus as our financial system to manage our employees but we have to manually move employees in AD
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Review
- Managing users
- Managing machines
- Security groups
- Customization (user defined fields)
- A better UI
- Better online integration
way AD is built, it’s simple and allows us to accomplish what we need in a very simple and efficient way.
Managing users and machines are simply way easier with Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
Azure Active Directory--high-security features and easy synchronization with high availability
- Easy to configure
- High availability
- Easy to synchronize with on-premises AD
- Pay as you go options
- Third-party tools need to be integrated easily
Active Directory in the cloud and more
- Multi-factor authentication
- Conditional access
- Supported by and integrates with other Microsoft products
- Complexity, especially for users not familiar with the "Microsoft way" of doing things
- Great for enterprises but a lot of overhead for smaller businesses
- UI - The user interface for configuring items within Azure AD is great.
- CLI - Interacting with the Azure CLI for Azure AD is the same great well documented experience as other interactions with the Azure CLI. Functionality is solid, documentation is great to explain different use cases with the CLI, and overall the ease of use is fantastic.
- Configuration Documentation: There's evidently been changes to Azure AD improving the platform but in making these changes it's incredibly difficult to find solid step by step instructions to implement Azure AD for given SaaS apps for example. This isn't necessarily Microsoft's fault, as documentation drift happens everywhere, but even within Microsoft's own documentation there are discrepancies. It makes setting up AAD on an application potentially more difficult than it needs to be.
- Multi Account Difficulties: If you have multiple accounts tied to AAD (like a school account and a work account for example) it's incredibly difficult to sign in on both. Heaven help you if you forget to open a private browsing tab to sign in to the different account. You'll spend a non-zero amount of time trying to sign back in to your other account.
Tight integration, simple management and a feature-rich experience is what AzureAD promises and delivers
AzureAD was definately the optimial option, it allowed us to unify our IT administration experience through tightly integrated capabilities, and simplified synchronization of objects from On-Premises Active Directory, additionally, most of our online services for internal users are on Microsoft 365, in such scenarios, AzureAD is absolutly the best choice for our organization.
It scaled nicely as the company grows, and offers RBAC, Conditional Access and Privileged Identity Management, it also supports most of the common authentication scenarios and protocols that we require in our business, we are very much satisfied with how AzureAD works and it is definately a reliable and flexible IAM solution.
- Conditional Access in AzureAD is great and works very well
- Integration with Intune, Microsoft 365 and other Microsoft Cloud Services is unmatching
- Simple user management from the Portal
- Sign-ins behavioral monitoring and user risk detection is a top security need
- Many features are added every now and then and its relatively easy to enable them organization-wide
- The Multi-Factor Authentication Portal still uses the old Azure Interface that is over 7 years old, it's exceedingly difficult to manage MFA enablement for substantial number of users
- Some limitations in the portal such as user retrieval is limited, making selecting multiple objects difficult
- The AzureAD Sync client is particularly useful but requires advanced technical skills to troubleshoot if anything goes wrong
- Certain security features which I believe are considered essential are only part of the Premium 2 license, such as Risk Detection and Investigation, Microsoft should try to make Plans more tailored into other features (For example limit on objects, app registration, branding, and make security features an essential part of any AzureAD Plan.
- Active Directory as your on-premises domain service
- Plan to use a cloud-based productivity service such as Microsoft 365
- Have any Azure-resources
- Use Microsoft Teams
- Need to have a familiar interface with familiar tools and extensive documentation
- Want to reduce the number of IAM Solutions you are using
However, if you plan to use cloud services from other providers such as Google, then you might consider other options or preferrably use Google Cloud Directory for that matter, AzureAD is tailored for businesses who have capitialized many of their IT Investments in the Microsoft Ecosystem and therefore, serves them the most.
Microsoft Azure AD integration with Business Central
- The integration with other Microsoft products
- Multi-factor authentication
- Conditional access
- Simplify complexity - Azure AD is rich of features, but that also makes it very complex
- Management
Azure AD Identity Management
- Allows for onpremise replication of existing identities
- Has the ability to integrate with 3rd parties
- provides an entire suite of APIs to grant as little or as much information to programs as desired.
- provides both web interface and command-line interface for administrating
- Updated documentation could use some improvement.
- Speed of change replication can be slow sometimes during high traffic times
- some features available through the command line are NOT available through the web interface.
- random outages can be frustrating
Azure AD Review for Medium Enterprise
- Enhanced our end-user experience.
- Secure access for users.
- Integration with other Microsoft products.
- Users require some training.
- The UI can be more intuitive.
- The UI can use modern layout.