Microsoft Entra ID

Pros: What I like most about Microsoft Entra ID is its strong security and identity management capabilities. It provides centralized control over users, access, and authentication, making it much easier to manage permissions across systems and applications. The integration with Microsoft services and third-party applications is another major advantage. Features like single sign-on and multi-factor authentication help improve both security and user experience. It also scales well, making it a reliable solution for managing identities in growing environments.

Cons: What I liked least about Microsoft Entra ID is that it can be complex to configure, especially for more advanced features. Setting up conditional access policies and fine tuning permissions can take time and requires a solid understanding of the platform. Licensing can also be a drawback, since some of the more powerful features are only available in higher-tier plans. Troubleshooting issues is not always straightforward, either, as the interface and logs can be difficult to navigate without experience.

Pros: The most well rounded User management solution EVER. Working in an ever evolving access industry, having the ability to easily manage users is critical. Simple integrations with Active Directory and Intune are important in most business applications these days. Along with integration into business applications for SSO. Extremely powerful tool.

Cons: The whole suite can be a bit overwhelming at times. Between configuration, security measures, and integrations...it can get cumbersome.

Pros: Microsoft Entra ID integrates nicely with other Microsoft products and it is quite easy to use. The sync from on prem AD to Entra ID is also advantage. Implementing Conditional access policies helps to improve the company security posture.

Cons: The pricing tiers/addons are not easy to understand and some settings does not follow security best practice by default, so it has to be changed later. Other thing is Microsoft is pretty much always changing the portal, so it can be sometimes tricky to find what you are looking for when expect to be at the old place.

Pros: It's a natural extension from Active Directory. Syncing accounts and devices is very easy. I like that they offer things like conditional access and advanced security settings that make it possible to have a stronger security posture.

Cons: I don't like how convoluted the licensing can be. While they offer some conditional access policies at our current license level, we would have to bump up to E5 or P2 add on licenses in order to take advantage of some of the more robust policies. Certain reporting options and additional settings are also all blocked by paywall forcing you to either pay more money for more licensing or look at 3rd party solutions.

Pros: I like that it provides user access control and account security. It provides a easy to use platform to manage user data.

Cons: I do not dislike anything about it at this time. I find it to be a convenient platform to manager user data that is secure.

Pros: I like alot about Entra, from policy management to application integration. We are a hybrid enviroment so our AD syncs to entra with entra connect software. it streamlines our user management and MFA implementation

Cons: Nothing i don't really like, it is a well-rounded product and you would hope it is with Microsoft being in the game for so long

Pros: Extremely powerful and flexible —it does a lot including streamlining all our directory management, SSO, etc. but it also expects a lot of admins. You definitely have to know your stuff to get the most out of it.

Cons: As it underpins all of the Microsoft 365 offerings an Azure AD/Entra ID outage will obviously kill a lot of your SaaS access for your entire org. Thankfully those are fairly few and far between. Microsoft is alos obsessed with moving things around and creating new portals, etc. so you need to start on top of Entra news to (re)locate things.

Pros: Azure AD integrates with most external software that we have procured, and it is very easy to implement Single Sign-On.

Cons: The Admin UI isn't that intuitive and the licensing structure is complex. The 40-minute sync between systems can sometimes cause delays and issues.

Pros: M365-Integration und tiefgreifende Sicherheits­features. Mit Conditional Access, MFA und Privileged Identity Management setzen wir Zero-Trust-Policies nahezu per Mausklick um. Das Cloud-basierte Directory repliziert Änderungen in Sekunden, Self-Service-Passwort­zurück­setzung entlastet den Help-Desk und über die mehr als 3 000 vorgefertigten Enterprise-App-Konnektoren rollt SSO extrem schnell aus. Dank automatischer Risiko­analysen erhalten wir Echtzeit-Warnungen bei verdächtigem Login-Verhalten und steigern so unsere Security-Reife messbar.

Cons: Die Lizenzstruktur (P1/P2) ist für kleinere Organisationen schwer kalkulierbar; viele essenzielle Funktionen (z. B. PIM oder Identity Governance) liegen nur in der teuren P2-Stufe. Außerdem wechseln UI und Menüführung der Portale gefühlt monatlich, was die Admin-Akzeptanz beeinträchtigt. Audit-Logs sind ohne Zusatz­produkte nur 30 Tage abrufbar, API-Rate-Limits können bei Mass­änderungen bremsen und komplexe Delegationen erfordern oft Azure AD-Rollen, die noch immer recht grob-granular sind.

Pros: Azure Active Directory is great for its seamless integration with all Microsoft services, Single Sign-On, strong security features like MFA and Conditional Access, and support for hybrid cloud environments

Cons: Sometimes the confusion about features in each licenses like P1 and P2 and limited to customize the user interface

Pros: I like that it's a very comprehensive cloud native identity & access manager. When Azure AD is assigned to a Tenant, it integrates seamless across the Azure fabric making IAM an intuitive breeze!

Cons: In our case, we integrate with O365 apps and there are still things like managing "groups" where tasks are done in the O365 Admin Dashboard as opposed to all tasks being managed in the Azure AD Dashboard.

Pros: It's ability to centrally secure & manage user identities, access & authentication for various applications & services including the ones that are in cloud & on-premises. Cloud Centric & Scalable- Azure AD is designed for a cloud-first world offering seamless integration with Microsoft cloud services and SAAS applications and scales easily to accommodate growing organizations. Cost-Effective- Azure AD can be a cost-effective solution, especially for organizations that already use other Microsoft products like Microsoft 365.

Cons: Dependent On Internet Connectivity: Azure AD is a cloud based service, meaning it requires an internet connection for authentication & access to resources.

Pros: I liked Azure Active Directory’s strong security features and seamless integration with Microsoft 365 and other Azure services. Its single sign-on (SSO) capabilities greatly simplify user access management across apps.

Cons: I found Azure Active Directory’s interface a bit complex for new users, especially during initial setup. Troubleshooting issues like conditional access policies can also be challenging without deep documentation.

Pros: Allows smooth and easy connection for users and systems, via SSO. Allows easy user access management within the tool.

Cons: Azure AD access permissions provided by Azure could be reduced in number, as well as be a bit more clear on what each permission allows to do.

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

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.

Pros: Semplicità di utilizzo e servizi integrati che coprono tutte le principali esigenze nativamente ed in sicurezza

Cons: Mancanza di alcuni strumenti evoluti di gestione batch

Pros: Molte informazioni online se si hanno dubbi che la documentazione non comprende

Cons: Si può sempre migliorare, niente di così tanto negativo

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.

Pros: We were able to connect our on-premise Active Directory to the Azure Active Directory, which made setting up and maintaining it a breeze. New users are automatically transferred over and all of our on-premise roles and permissions can be utilized in Office 365. Additionally as long as your have a sing enterprise license you can use AAD for SSO on other applications.

Cons: If using Azure Active Directory in hybrid mode it can be a pain to setup two way communication between the cloud and on-premise, though a argument can be made that this is a security feature since it limits what a cracker can accomplish if they get into one of your users accounts.

Pros: The tooling and functionality is amazing; so much potential and possibilities, AAD is a must-use for any Microsoft administrator.

Cons: navigating the interface can be confusing and convoluted at first, however once you know how to use it and where to go, it is very straight forward.

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

Cons: Access only from server, rather then cloud based web

Pros: Well documented, easy to navigate and easy to implement needed solutions.

Cons: None really - works as intended and is constantly changed and new features added.