Microsoft Entra ID bridged the gap for our users.
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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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- Multi-Factor Authentication (86)9.292%
- ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (86)9.090%
- ID-Management Access Control (85)8.888%
- Password Management (82)8.282%
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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 integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.
What is Microsoft Entra ID?
What is Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID?
What is Microsoft Entra ID Protection?
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?
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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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.
JumpCloud are common alternatives for Microsoft Entra ID.
Reviewers rate Multi-Factor Authentication highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Microsoft Entra ID are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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June 13, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID bridged the gap for our users.
We use Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD, as a bridge between local and cloud AD and for unified user management and single sign-on access to our cloud-based resources, such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, with the added benefit of multi-factor authentication (MFA).
- 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.
June 13, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID for business
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure) is a great product that we utilize for deploying VMs, integrating SSO within applications, managing users, groups, and inboxes, and more. While the online software is not always intuitive for administrators to use (the UI changes frequently) and the name change caused a great amount of confusion, the product is solid, mature, and most of all does the job in all the categories mentioned above.
- User and group management
- VM management and deployment
- SSO integration app store
- Intune and MDM
- UI development
- Communication regarding name change
June 08, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID is a great identity solution.
I help administer the identity use cases for Microsoft Entra ID. We use it as our primary identity in a hybrid configuration with our on-prem Active Directory. This also provides the base for our Office 365 products.
- Foundation for O365.
- Mechanism for modern authentication (SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
- Feature-rich with controls like Conditional Access to enforce MFA and other access restrictions to company applications.
- I would like to see more low-code automation options.
- Default options need to be set more restrictive to prevent accidentally relaxed security settings.
- I would like to see more streamlined configuration pages. Many similar or related settings are scattered across different pages.
June 08, 2024
Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Microsoft Azure Active Directory is the key component of our identity, authentication, and authorization strategy. It is fully integrated with our HR platform for onboarding and separation and enables Single-sign-on, muti-factor-authentication, and a host of other basic and advanced identity-related services. Using all that Microsoft has to offer in this space simplifies our environment and makes additional third-party products specifically targeting identity management unnecessary.
- 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.
June 07, 2024
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We use Microsoft Entra for Hybrid cloud functionality. Our local domain syncs with Microsoft services for email and applications
- 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.
June 07, 2024
An obvious choice for any large or small business firmly planted in the Microsoft ecosystem
We use Microsoft Entra ID to manage our user credentials and privileges across the MS 365 platform. As a small company, it's important to have IT systems that are easy to implement, manage, and grow. And they need to be reliable and play nice with the rest of our environment. Since we use Microsoft products across the board, Microsoft Entra ID is the obvious solution.
- 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.
We use it for authentication and authorization with in our organization. We also use it for SSO. We manage user objects, computer objects, Groups, Printers etc via Microsoft Entra ID. Via Microsoft Entra ID we centrally manage all the auth policies and make sure users have limited access to resources based on their role, neither more nor less. We also manage Microsoft Entra ID integrated DNS for proper name resolution.
- 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.
June 05, 2024
Azure Active Directory = Microsoft Entra ID
We currently use Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) for several of our companies, some are hybrid and some are Entra only. Entra provides us with a trusted and proven directory solution that works well with our other suites (such as M365) since they are all Microsoft products. With Entra, we have the flexibility to support our existing configurations (on-prem AD) while also providing support for our newest configurations (Cloud-only).
- 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.
June 05, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID Review
We use Microsoft Entra ID to manage Users, groups and resources in our organisation. We have been using Azure AD for a longer time and now because of the name change its Microsoft Entra ID. The Microsoft Entra ID is a great way to manage all your resources in a particular tenant. This is easily accessible from any device using 2 FA
- Managing Users
- Managing groups
- Setting up multi factor Authentication
- Setting up B2B cross tenant
- None
We use Microsoft Entra ID to provide authentication & authorization to our end users for all cloud solutions that are used within the company. It provides easy single sign-on capabilities to a lot of enterprise applications.
- Authentication & Authorization
- Integration with cloud solutions
- Useful security standards around password complexity, etc...
- Fairly expensive
- Limited reporting
June 05, 2024
Microsoft Azure AD integration with Business Central
Our organization uses Azure AD for verification across all platforms. But not only that, I also implement ERP software based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and integrate it with Azure AD for customers. The Azure administrator of the customers create an app registration, which I then use in Business Central for integration. That way the users of our customers can use their Office 365 credentials to access Business Central. For the app registration to work well, I have to work with the customers system administrator. The app registration has to be set up thoroughly for it to work well 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
June 05, 2024
A cloud solution that doesn't rain on your parade
We currently use Microsoft Entra ID in a hybrid mode with on premise Active Directory. We are beginning to use Microsoft Entra ID more and more, utilising SSO, Conditional Access, MFA, Intune and other features.
- We find that the MFA feature, combined with the Microsoft Authenticator app, works really well
- Leveraging SSO to control access to a growing array of apps
- Just getting started with Intune but it looks very promising
- Inability to nest groups
- Conditional Access could do with more granularity
Microsoft Entra ID, formerly known as Azure AD, is one of the best cloud tools available on the mark to this date. It is the heart of most (small/mid sized) companies.
- Management
- Scalability
- Pricing
- More functionality on the free version
- Extra MFA functionality on the free version
- Pricing
June 04, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID
we used microsoft entra ID for our healthcare company. used for our hybrid environment of Office365 (Azure AD and on prem AD). this is currently addressing our MFA and moving to the autheicator method. this also give us the ability of risky logs to see if anyone's account are trying to be attacked
- Syncing
- SSO
- MFA
- SSO
June 04, 2024
Entra ID: The Leading Cloud-Based IAM SaaS
Key things we use Microsoft Entra ID is to centralise and simplify our user experience and making there lives easier so they can focus on the roles. By using features like Single Sign On and Muli-Factor Authentication it increases the security by making it harder for individuals of accessing our users accounts. Entra ID also helps make us compliant with IT industry standards and it is slowly progressing into a great product. With the use case of Entra ID and Intune it helps us create a zero touch environment.
- User management
- Intune
- SSO
- Users & Groups
- License management
- For new busniness's would be nice to have a pre-configured environment which you can select your needs and Entra ID will configure a majorty of the settings for you.
- Stream line configuration less going to 5 different locations just to setup a single thing.
- Documentation for Intra and other products be done as guides for specific use cases.
We use
Microsoft Entra ID with a hybrid AD and Exchange for our office 365 setup, we
use AD sync to synchronize our users with Entra ID.
We use Entra
ID to manage applications access to send email and other functions with the
graph API and we also use Entra ID to check users that are possibly compromised
and manage MFA within the same interface.
- 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.
June 04, 2024
Excellent cloud identity provider!
We have migrated all of our systems to Entra ID for SSO. It provides a single point of sign-on for users while also providing multifactor authentication for security. Users are now able to reset their own passwords(previously, they would have to call the help desk), and we have better insight into where users are signing in from and also which accounts are being attacked by unknown third parties.
- 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.
We are using Entra ID in sync with the On-Premises Active Directory. We are using it to manage internal as well as external users from trusted domains. We also use this to manage Application Authentication using App registrations, Application SSO management using Enterprise Applications and Application access configuration using Entra ID Groups. We also use features like Conditional Access policies, Named locations etc
- 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
We used Microsoft Entra ID for the authentication and authorization of Web Applications for users that are using from outside company premise and we also implemented conditional access and different policies to restrict access to certain resources and types of devices, locations, and other variables like device compliance, antivirus updates, windows patches requirement for the user to access the applications.
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Conditional Access.
- SSO
- External Identities.
- Consolidated Portal rather than different portals for everything.
May 20, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID Review
Basically it's allowed us to digitize our identity so we can manage all our endpoints, machines or users and devices so we can protect the business.
- Additional access is very good for managing policy, so it's very good for that. Also the governance and obviously new features such as SSE coming out so we can start to use not only our own business for our customers.
- Not a lot, but the fact is it moves so quickly so there's always catching up and always providing new stuff.
May 17, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID Review
My role is review, security, and implementation.
- No, I don't know.
- The coverage
May 17, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID
Well, for security, it helps us manage the accounts and for things like conditional access, everything is managed through Entra ID and everything from putting them in groups for policy to password resets.
- It's pretty straightforward. I like the organization. Yeah, it's easy to use.
- Well, this is kind of like in general, but I wish Microsoft would be better about disclosing what changes they're going to make to all of the services, to be honest. There'll be times where even when they change the GUI around, we don't know where to look for stuff that was in a previous area. But other than that, I mean it's pretty similar to Active directory, so I mean it's a smooth transition from that. So I don't really how much complaints, to be honest.
May 17, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID Review
I use it for creating users. We also use it for application management so that users can have access to certain applications that we have or if we need to link them to our client VPN, to give them access to that.
- It lets me see my users in my environment. It lets me change passwords or see what kind of activity has been done on their account.
- Most of the time I see is just subtle changes within the environment, this has moved to this place over here, or this feature has moved over here and I'm just like, I'm used to port to being in one place.
May 17, 2024
Entra ID Review
Our company is an identity governance company and so it integrates with Entra ID to provide the identity governance solutions to our customers so that they can basically have good discoverability as well as request review system for the permissions associated to their Azure products via Entra ID. And because of that we consult on how other companies will use Entra ID.
- I'd say its group management system is pretty good. It does nesting of groups, which is not super common anywhere else, and that gives user identities the option to have a chaining system where you can be in multiple different groups since they get permissions from another group. So this nesting of groups helps in organization of people and their groups that they have.
- I would say the service account integration because service accounts are a confusing term within Entra ID, they have service principles as well as applications. There is not fantastic documentation on how applications and service principles are interrelated to each other. The UI is not very intuitive, so it can get confusing for users to differentiate between what is one and what is the other. And because the terms are used interchangeably in some places, but in other places like the APIs they aren't, it can cause a lot of confusion for someone who's picking it up.
May 17, 2024
Microsoft Entra ID Review
The biggest, obviously, is security. So the product allows the company as a whole to access different information, different materials, and all of the Microsoft programs, but in a safe, secure way.
- Just making sure that the person who's logging into our backend or capturing an information is exactly who they are supposed to be, and so it keeps our information private and confidential and at the same time, only accessible to our employees.
- I think I don't really have anything. It works fairly easy. It's very easy to use, so I wouldn't recommend anything.