Easily manage enterprise applications with Azure AD
May 08, 2021
Easily manage enterprise applications with Azure AD
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory is being used across the entire organization. Azure AD allows us to manage access/permissions for various applications, resources, etc.
- 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.
- Integration: AAD integrates well in our hybrid environment.
- SSO: Having SSO is important because it allows for an easier sign in experience for our users.
Azure Active Directory stacks up pretty well with tools like Okta. Okta is a bit more straightforward, but Microsoft AAD is easier to configure in an automated way by leveraging the API or Azure CLI. The application UI is a little bitter in Okta in terms of seeing the applications you've been assigned, but once you get used to seeing enterprise applications in AAD it's not a bad experience either, just different.
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