Azure AD Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Too much management, not enough automation!

What do you like best? Cost is great, as is is a big help to our IT budget since we can pay as we go. It is incredibly secure, and its scalability allows us to increase/decrease power with ease. What do you dislike? Too much management, and very little automation makes the additional tasks required tedious. Also, if you are not an AD savvy person, it can be difficult to understand. Recommendations to others considering the product: Let the cost guide you, but be sure to do ...

Azure

What do you like best? Sync with on Prem, can apply DRM to the forest and generally works well and is very stable. What do you dislike? Not a lot to dislike about the solution for AAD - it is what it is. Recommendations to others considering the product: Try it - we are going to try the 2FA What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Allows us to roll out InTune and have SSO across the sites so we can leverage cloud opportunities.

MS Azure AD

What do you like best? Azure AD just works. It syncs with everything and is the industry standard for enterprise management. What do you dislike? While it doesn't take a monster-sized team to manage, it does required monitoring. It's hosted, but we still have to keep tabs on it. Recommendations to others considering the product: It's the current industry leader. It works. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? People, PC, ...

Microsoft Azure

What do you like best? Microsoft Azure was very fast and easy to implement. Migrating a farm of 1000+ users was smooth without any headaches. Very good at keeping AD in sync with cloud services. What do you dislike? Sometimes it can be hard to troubleshoot synchronization problems, Recommendations to others considering the product: If you want to keep your data safe in the cloud, there isn't a better solution available on the market right now. What problems are you ...

Works well, learning curve is just right

What do you like best? Great at keeping AD in sync with cloud services. What do you dislike? Slightly more complicated than required but overall easy enough to use. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? SSO has been a touchy subject for some clients and this is working wonders

Azure Platform Migration

What do you like best? I loved the ease of migration that we had when moving an existing user-base from AD 2010 to the azure platform. Being able to migrate and deploy an entire farm of 250+ users and implement proper SaaS solutions that our users needed was essential, and we were able to complete this within a weekend after a month of review. What do you dislike? Initial review was heavy for our staff during training, as some of our newer members had not reviewed AD practices ...

Microsoft Azure Active Directory

What do you like best? It is needed for hosted Exchange, provides a environment where you do not have to worry about server maintenance. What do you dislike? There always seems to be problem syncing on prem with cloud. Recommendations to others considering the product: Make sure you have experienced AD people on site What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Hosted Exchange requires Microsoft Active Directory.

Cloud AD plus integration into pretty much anything

What do you like best? It is incredibly easy to integrate 3rd party applications into the directory What do you dislike? There is really not anything to dislike! Recommendations to others considering the product: Compare with similar services from AWS What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Centrally managed directory service

Wow! Simplicity at its finest!

What do you like best? This has allowed our IT functions to simplify and streamline our employee sign ons and access. The management options and access functions have alleviated issues that we have dreamed of resolving for years. What do you dislike? There isn't anything that is disliked currently. Azure has delivered its solution and we enjoy it for our organization and the audit system functions. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? ...

Next step in Cloud integration

What do you like best? Azure AD directory noways provide ideal way of integration of your local AD infrastructure with Azure Cloud resources and even more. What do you dislike? Sometimes it is hard to determine root cause of synchronization failures. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Integration local on premise AD structure with Azure Cloud resources, that will provide easy way for authorization of authenticated users, that ...