Entra-cation for Multi Academy Trusts
February 04, 2026

Entra-cation for Multi Academy Trusts

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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Software Version

Premium P1

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Entra External ID

Here in our educational setting, a medium sized multi academy trust, we use Microsoft Entra External ID to deliver internal apps and resources to a series of children's homes and school communities that work externally with our organisation. Microsoft Entra External ID enables us to reach children that other wise struggle to attend school regularly. It gives each pupil or prospective pupil and their supporting agencies an opportunity to continue/support their learning from where ever they are, securely.

Pros

  • Security
  • Simple account creation
  • Deployment of resources.

Cons

  • Initial external/workforce tenant setup
  • Authentication app requirement (although essential, not every child has a device they can use)
  • Company Branding Tools
  • Greater pupil platform engagement
  • Greater visibility for external agencies to see compliance
  • More comprehensive remote education offerings
  • Greater visibility for IT management
Microsoft Entra External ID is an all round solid product, and certainly delivers the solution to our needs well. Through use we found that Pupil's become 'experts in avoidance', if they can forget their login details or indeed their device used for MFA, they will and then use that as the excuse for not accessing/completing their assignments. If more MFA options were available (such as delegated MFA) this would really help iron out our entire end user experiences.
For us as we already used microsoft platforms it made perfect sense to remain within one eco system rather than split external ID systems if we could. We did however look closely at AWS as a comparison and chose Microsoft Entra External ID based on our end users (familiarity) with microsoft authentication and deployment routines. We also found that Microsoft gave more sovereignty assurances with our data.

Do you think Microsoft Entra External ID delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Entra External ID's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Entra External ID live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Entra External ID go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Entra External ID again?

Yes

In our organisation we use Microsoft Entra External ID primarily to enable non-attenders to remotely login to our tenant and access pre-prepared educational resources. As well as access to tutors, pupils can also communicate with centralised staff who can support them to gain an education. Utilising our external tenant configuration we can develop and deploy our own in house apps to unpin this support intervention.

Microsoft Entra External ID Feature Ratings

Identity Management
9.3
ID-Management Access Control
9
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
9
Multi-Factor Authentication
7
Password Management
10
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
10
ID Management Workflow Automation
10
ID Risk Management
10

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