Today Microsoft made big announcements about its Microsoft Entra suite of identity and security products and capabilities. The Microsoft Entra suite is expanding into Security Service Edge and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. Azure Active Directory as a name is now earmarked for the history books and Entra ID is born. Oh, and in case you missed it amongst the other announcements there is also Entra ID Protection.
The road to Active Directory and Azure Active Directory has been a long one. I’ve been working with Microsoft Identity Services before even Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released in 1992. Just as when Microsoft announced Active Directory as the directory services successor for Windows Domains, it is a moment to reflect on how far we have come, and how we need to continually adapt to the evolutionary change of technology to meet our needs.
Up until today’s announcement the Entra Suite consisted of a series of products and services that had also evolved in capability and through naming:
and features of Azure Active Directory (now Entra ID):
Now we can add to that both Entra ID (formally known as Azure Active Directory), Entra Internet Access, Entra Private Access and Entra ID Protection to get this lineup:
Entra ID doesn’t roll off the tongue easily right now. But then Active Directory didn’t either when announced. Yes, coming from a Novell background there were lots of jibes about the naming and unanswered questions such as, “what is active about it?”.
20+ years on with its meteoric rise to be the primary enterprise directory service for the majority of organisations it is here to stay. But with a new haircut and new capabilities. Hello Entra ID.
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