About a year ago Microsoft announced the Microsoft Entra product family
From its introduction, Microsoft Entra included three products: Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Permissions Management and Microsoft Entra Verified ID. Later the product family was expanded by adding also Microsoft Entra ID Governance and Microsoft Entra Workload ID. Today, Microsoft Entra protects any identity and secures access to any resource (on-premises, across clouds, and anywhere in between) with a product family that unifies multicloud identity and network access solutions.
Now there’s an importanr change to be aware of: to simplify product naming and unify product family, Microsoft is changing the name of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID. Capabilities and licensing plans, sign-in URLs, and APIs remain unchanged, and all existing deployments, configurations, and integrations will continue to work as before.
Starting today, you’ll see notifications in the administrator portal, on official Microsoft’s websites, in documentation and in other places where you may interact with Azure AD.
The name change from Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID will be completed by the end of 2023. No action is needed from your side.
The new changes are as follows:
With the name change to Microsoft Entra ID, the standalone license names are changing. Azure AD Free becomes Microsoft Entra ID Free. Azure AD Premium P1 becomes Microsoft Entra ID P1. Azure AD Premium P2 becomes Microsoft Entra ID P2. And our product for customer identities, Azure AD External Identities, becomes Microsoft Entra External ID.
SKU and service plan name changes take effect on October 1, 2023.
Stefano Demiliani 