Azure Active Directory
Azure AD is now part of the Microsoft Entra product family
Protect your users, apps, workloads, and devices
Learn how Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) can help with your identity and access management business challenges.
Seamless user experiences
Unified identity management
Simplified identity governance
Multicloud identity and access management
Azure AD is an integrated cloud identity and access solution, and a leader in the market for managing directories, enabling access to applications, and protecting identities.
Comprehensive capabilities
Azure AD helps protect your users from 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.
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Single sign-on
Connect your workforce to all your apps, from any location, using any device.
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Multifactor authentication
Help safeguard access to data and apps and keep it simple for users.
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Conditional access
Apply the right access controls to keep your organization more secure.
Industry recognition
Microsoft recognized for fifth year
Gartner named Microsoft a Leader in 2021 Magic QuadrantTM for Access Management1, 2.
A leader in Advanced Authentication
Learn why Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders category in the 2021 IDC MarketScape for advanced authentication for identity security vendor assessment.
A leader in Access Management
Learn why KuppingerCole rates Microsoft a strong positive across all product and leadership dimensions in Access Management.
More from the Microsoft Entra product family
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID
Create, issue, and verify privacy-respecting decentralized identity credentials with an identity verification solution that helps you enable more secure interactions with anyone or anything.
Additional resources for Azure AD
Videos
Azure AD features and videos
Quickly get up to speed on features and capabilities in Azure AD and learn how to deploy them.
Blog
Azure AD blog
Stay up to date with the latest identity and access management thought leadership, including updates to Azure AD.
Blog
Identity standards blog
Demystify standards and protocols for passwordless, decentralized identity, system for cross-domain identity management (SCIM) and more.
Documentation
Technical docs
Explore all the features in Azure AD, plus how-to guides, tutorials, and quick start guides.
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2. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, 01 November 2021, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Data, Michael Kelley
3. The free edition of Azure AD is included with a subscription of a commercial online service such as Azure, Dynamics 365, Intune, Power Platform, and others in countries where they are available for sale.
4. Additional Azure AD features are included with Office 365 E1, E3, E5, F1, and F3 subscriptions in countries where they are available for sale.
Azure AD empowers organizations to manage and secure identities for employees, partners, and customers to access the applications and services they need. Azure AD provides an identity solution that integrates broadly, from on-premises legacy apps to thousands of top software as a service (SaaS) applications, delivering a seamless end-user experience and improved visibility and control.