We performed a comparison between Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface of the product is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Active Directory are the management of user and group policies."
"One advantage of Active Directory is that you can sync it with Microsoft Office 365, so you can manage on-premise and cloud operations, which can have different requirements. The flexibility of a hybrid management solution is valuable."
"The solution is easy to install and has good reliability."
"The scalability of the solution is high...The initial setup of the solution is easy, and I would rate it an eight or nine out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy."
"It is very user-friendly."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I think the main reason we are using Active Directory for SSO Office for single time and for intake integrity capability to other services."
"The solution adds an extra layer of security."
"The two-step authentication is the most valuable."
"The scalability of the product is decent."
"The best thing about Active Directory is its compatibility. It works with lots of third-party vendors. We're using multiple products, and they're all integrated with our Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature is Conditional Access, and we use it extensively."
"Microsoft Azure AD is easy to install and is a stable solution."
"I like Intune's MDM and MI."
"Technical support has been great."
"The product must provide remote password reset features."
"There could be enough material to learn about the product."
"If Microsoft is going to add anything to the on-prem solution, it should be an updated GUI."
"The product's premium support services could be less expensive."
"There has been a change in the layout of the user information. Previously, I had to go to properties to view the information, but now it is displayed directly below the search results. It takes some time to get used to."
"The technical support team does not give prompt responses."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"Microsoft Active Directory restricts most of the features our company's employees want to use since they are involved in research and development activities."
"One thing that they need to improve is the cost."
"The Azure AD Application Proxy, which helps you publish applications in a secure way, has room for improvement. We are moving from another solution into the Application Proxy and it's quite detailed. Depending on the role you're signing in as, you can end up at different websites, which wasn't an issue with our old solution."
"Microsoft is working with Microsoft Identity Manager for Active Directory on-premise. It will be very important to have these identity management solutions directly in Azure Active Directory. It's very important to have some kind of Azure identity manager as a technology for identity and access management for working both in the cloud and inside the Azure suite."
"Transitioning to the cloud is very difficult. They need the training to make it easier."
"At the free or basic level of service, Azure should provide identity protection features including single sign-on and multifactor authentication."
"Microsoft should work on enhancing its machine-learning algorithm to prevent unnecessary lockouts of users."
"The conditional access rules are a little limiting. There's greater scope for the variety of rules and conditions you could put in that rules around a more factual authentication for other users. If you have an Azure AD setup, you can then connect to other people's Azure AD, but you don't have a huge amount of control in terms of what you can do. Greater control over guest users and guest access would be better. It's pretty good as it is but that could be improved."
"Everything should be in one package. There are so many different packages. They need to provide guidance because there are so many features and we don't know how to implement them in our organization."
Microsoft Active Directory is ranked 7th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 36 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. Microsoft Active Directory is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Active Directory writes "A solution that easily merges with cloud-based ADs and provides superior data security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". Microsoft Active Directory is most compared with PingFederate, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Auth0 and CyberArk Identity, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo. See our Microsoft Active Directory vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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