Azure Active Directory

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About Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory, part of Microsoft Entra, is an identity and access management (IAM) software designed to help enterprises provide protection against cybersecurity attacks through single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication. It allows administrators to securely engage with internal and external stakeholders and provide on-site and remote access to various applications.

Features of Azure Active Directory include workflow automation, productivity tracking, behavioral analytics, endpoint management, a self-service portal, user activity monitoring, and more. The application allows businesses to protect account credentials by defining authentication and conditional access policies. Managers can also use the application to map the user journey and manage authentication via the social identity tool.

Azure Active Directory supports integration with several third-party platforms such as Microsoft Office 365, Workday, Box, Salesforce, SAP SuccessFactors, Blackboard Learn, and more through API. It also lets managers create, remove, and maintain user accounts and provide authentication to various cloud-based applications via OAuth system.


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4.8 /5
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Value for Money
4.7/5
Features
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Ease of Use
4.6/5
Customer Support
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Alexander
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Bonus that comes with Office 365

Reviewed on 2023/12/05

Considering the basic version is included with a Office 365 subscription it has been an unexpected...

Considering the basic version is included with a Office 365 subscription it has been an unexpected bonus. It has given our company a chance to experiment with a cloud based directory without having to fully abandon the setup that has work for years and most employees are familiar with.

Pros

Previous to signing up for Office 365 we used a on-premise active directory, using the tools provide it was easy to transfer our directory information over to the Azure Active Directory and have them work together in a hybrid mode. We have been able to slowly decrease the amount of on-premise servers had transition to cloud only at a pace we control due to this.

Cons

If you are using hybrid mode it can be a bit of a pain to set two way communication between Azure back to On-premise.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Airlines/Aviation
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

AD-Review 2023

Reviewed on 2023/09/09

Recomended dearly to all buissness to work with Azure ad and especially AD users and managment

Recomended dearly to all buissness to work with Azure ad and especially AD users and managment

Pros

Functionality wellWorking fast, easy login, very safeSync with Microsoft products cloud services

Cons

Access only from server, rather then cloud based web

Ajaykumar
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Azure AD-Entra ID

Reviewed on 2024/12/18

Pros

We no need any physical servers. Azure AD hosted on azure cloud so we can manage From cloud

Cons

If your organization already in on-premises you need some connection and tokens to configure azure AD.

Aaron
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Azure AD Review

Reviewed on 2025/01/03

Overall, the application is very convenient and the benefits of AD are very beneficial to businesses...

Overall, the application is very convenient and the benefits of AD are very beneficial to businesses to keep data together

Pros

The convenience of keeping users and system info together and having the ability to control or reset these users

Cons

the installation and configuration of the application can be a bit much along with the app sometimes disappearing when pinned on task bar

Brian
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Inexpensive, Many Integrations

Reviewed on 2022/05/12

Pros

Cost was affordable and it provided an easy way to migrate from on prem domain controller to Azure AD. It also integrated with a number of the other SAAS applications we used making setting up integrated authentication easy.

Cons

When you move a computer from Joined to a local AD over to Azure AD you lose some of the management options (GPO).

Alternatives Considered

OneLogin and Okta

Reasons for Choosing Azure Active Directory

We were moving away from running our own servers and we also wanted SSO setup for all of our cloud services.

Reasons for Switching to Azure Active Directory

When we put the feature matrix together Azure AD had more features than the rest. Also a number of SAAS applications have or were building out integrations due to the number of companies using Azure AD.
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Azure Active Directory offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$6.00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Office 365 Apps - Please contact Microsoft directly Premium P1 - $6 user/month Premium P2 - $9 user/month

Azure Active Directory has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Azure Active Directory supports the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Azure Active Directory supports the following devices:

Azure Active Directory integrates with the following applications:

Box, CANVAS, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, Workday HCM

Azure Active Directory offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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