
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…
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Microsoft Entra ID - Must have tool for Large Enterprises
Easy to implement, Quick solution for Authentication Needs!
Microsoft Entra ID is one of the best solutions on the market today.
One of the best tool in Market for Authentication and Authorization
Why You Should Switch to Microsoft Entra ID Today
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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
How Microsoft Entra ID Differs From Its Competitors
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Popular Features
- Multi-Factor Authentication (90)9.090%
- ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (90)8.888%
- ID-Management Access Control (89)8.787%
- Password Management (86)8.282%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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
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Introducing Microsoft Entra
Features
Identity Management
Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources
- 8.7ID-Management Access Control(89) Ratings
Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role
- 8.8ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)(90) Ratings
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
- 9Multi-Factor Authentication(90) Ratings
Using multiple, independent components to gain access
- 8.2Password Management(86) Ratings
Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.
- 8.3Account Provisioning and De-provisioning(85) Ratings
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
- 8.2ID Management Workflow Automation(67) Ratings
Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes
- 8.4ID Risk Management(69) Ratings
Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences
Product Details
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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.
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 96)Microsoft Entra ID: A hub of connecting SaaS applications
- Maintaining users in Azure AD with enabled and disabled state
- Provisioning users data from other apps to Active directory through integration
- Use of Microsoft graph APIs in assigning default groups and OUs
- The use of expressions in Azure AD provisioning can be improved
- Use of scoping filters can be improved for GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO for datetime fields
Microsoft Entra ID for business
- User and group management
- VM management and deployment
- SSO integration app store
- UI development
- Communication regarding name change
Microsoft Entra ID - Must have tool for Large Enterprises
- Application SSO management
- Application Auth using App registrations
- Conditional Access policies
- External user management
- Sometimes Azure just breaks and doesn't show proper details
- The sync process from on-premises can be improved
- it uses User Principal name rather than Email to authenticate
Easy to implement, Quick solution for Authentication Needs!
- The SDK implementation is easy and quick with .NET
- We did not face any issues with the integration with our app
- Microsoft Entra ID was fast and secure
- Entra IDs dashboard got a bit complex than previous
- There should be a good and cheaper support plan for Entra ID issues
- Vendor lock-in
Microsoft Entra ID is one of the best solutions on the market today.
- Access from anywhere.
- Scalability and flexibility.
- Cloud integrations.
- The user interface needs to be tweaked for usability.
- Sometimes, the intuitiveness is not what we are looking for.
One of the best tool in Market for Authentication and Authorization
- Reliable: We can rely on the authentication process and protocols it uses.
- Fault-tolerant: Because of multiple DCs,,, its fault-tolerant so easy life for us engineers
- Easy to manage: UI is easy to understand
- It should have an in-built password generation tool that generates passwords based on set AD password policies, and we can use that to reset user passwords.
- There should be a one-click feature to check the resultant GPOs being applied to any machine or user.
Why You Should Switch to Microsoft Entra ID Today
- Mutli-factor authentication
- single sign on
- access management
- A more streamlined and consistent design could enhance the user experience
- The documentation and learning content for Microsoft Entra ID could be more comprehensive and up-to-date
- Information could be more visible and accessible
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Single sign-on option
- Conditional access
- User interface and user experience- I suggest making it user friendly as sometimes the policy setting is confusing in my opinion.
- Documentation and guidance- In my opinion, the documents are not very clear I will suggest making it more illustrated or well-explained
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- security
- user friendly
- comprehensive framework
- sync with azure
- not economical for small businesses
- UX can be improved
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- Syncing accounts
- Provisioning account
- Providing a hybrid envionment
- The interface could be better.
- Reporting is not very reliable and leaves off important information
- Consistency is lacking as Microsoft has changed Azure and Entra multiple times.
An obvious choice for any large or small business firmly planted in the Microsoft ecosystem
- SSO across all Microsoft platforms
- Easy to manage users and privileges
- Easy to implement MFA options
- Support has been less responsive than we'd like. Sometimes, responses/callbacks can take days.
- There seem to be some credential conflicts with users who had "personal" accounts in the past using the same email address.
- Would like more options for chat-based troubleshooting, rather than phone or email.
An end-to-end user and identity management solution
- The most used and useful feature is 'Privileged Identity Management' which helps us to not only limit the assignment of privileged roles but also to monitor and regulate the assignments with a variety of filters.
- 'Conditional Access' is another feature which can be marked as one of USPs of Microsoft Entra ID. The kind of granularity and security that this feature allows is something that prevent a lot of attacks on the identity perimeter.
- I personally love the simplicity and security of the 'Cross-tenant synchronization' feature of Microsoft Entra ID. It makes the collaboration process easier without making any compromises in the security aspect.
- While a very popular feature, but I feel 'Identity Protection' has some improvement scope like improving the delay of alert triggering, provide more details on the suspicious activities and possibly through a simpler UX.
- I think 'Identity Secure Score' dashboard should have some more detailed informational view instead of just providing some generic best practices and then re-directing to the M365 Defender portal.
- 'Per-User MFA' should now either be deprecated or else should now be re-branded and re-worked to support conditional access policies specifically for combined registration policies.
Go to product for Identity and Access Management
- Supports modern authentications.
- Easy to implement in any environment.
- Easy to manage the identities.
- Provides great security to the user accounts.
- More customizations to signin page
- Entra ID custom Roles should have been extended list of permissions
- Add a backup solution for entra ID during disaster recovery
General review of Azure Entra ID during ongoing cloud adoption
- Authentication & Authorization
- Integration with cloud solutions
- Useful security standards around password complexity, etc...
- Fairly expensive
- Limited reporting
Currently we mainly integrate cloud solutions/applications with Microsoft Entra ID, while keeping our locally developped apps integrated with on-prem solutions.
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- 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.
Identity solution
- multifactor authentication
- smooth sign in experience
- self account recovery
- connectivity issues between Microsoft Entra connect and ID
- Licenses
Your one-stop identity shop!
- Identity management
- integration with most software tools
- security features and plugins
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- SSO
- MFA
- SSO
Entra ID by Microsoft: The Next Level of Authentication
- Manage users from one interface.
- Easy to check user activity in case of an audit.
- Adding permissions to an application so it can send emails for example using graph API
- A lot of good features are paywalled behind expensive monthly subscriptions.
- Would be nice to have an option even if paid to conserve more than 7 days of user activity logs.
- Having the option to add some paid features without buying a bundle.
- The use has given us the reason that until now, with Entra ID, we have had a superior user experience than what we have had with other programs according to the fact that logging is super easy and very fast and the multicloud environment allows access from anywhere easily.
- Identity management is easy; I place a strong point on the visibility and control given to the applications. I believe that in this sense, they have made an effort to create a safe, intuitive and easy-to-learn environment for the average user.
- Authentication and access to data are strong; they have an encryption mode that protects each kb, this makes us feel safe.
- The integration of apps from Workforce is very convenient, you can integrate from any device even when you are traveling and this does not generate any inconvenience, blocking, etc.
- I consider only one aspect to be wrong, which is the cost structure. First, I could talk about the structure model provided by the vendors. It is a very complicated spreadsheet to understand for any user who is not from the IT department. Let's say that if you want to request budget and approve a budget you do not have the capacity for sufficient information at the moment to justify the purchase, why are there concepts only understandable for an IT engineer, I think this should be simplified for the reading comprehension of any individual, a simple spreadsheet, brief, and with plans for use only so that we can understand the marketing and financial areas of each company.
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 and its MFA and SSO Capabilities
- Integration with other Microsoft solutions
- Many methods of authentication available
- Conditional access configurability
- MFA offering
- The user interface can be confusing and is noisy
- Features are often hard to find without support
- Can take time to learn how to implement and use elements of Microsoft Entra ID
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.