Microsoft Entra ID P1 (ANNUAL)

Description

MIcrosoft Entra ID P1 is designed for the need for on-premise connection or just pure cloud control through connectivity. Active Directory in the cloud now has a place of residence and it is in Azure. With Microsoft Enter ID P1, the control and features of AD is at your fingertips.  Designed to empower organizations with more demanding identity and access management needs.  That is to say, Entra ID P1 edition adds feature-rich enterprise-level identity management capabilities and enables hybrid users to seamlessly access on-premises and cloud capabilities. In short, this edition includes everything you need for information worker and identity administrators in hybrid environments.  Most importantly, this applies across application access, self-service identity and access management (IAM), and security in the cloud.

Microsoft Entra ID P1 has the following features:

• Real-time Conditional access
• User and Group Role-based access control (RBAC)
• In-place Advanced group management (default classification, naming policies, dynamic groups, expiration)
• Manage and access cross-tenant user synchronization, multi-tenant organizations
• Files and folders through SharePoint limited access
• Controlled sessions through session lifetime management
• Secure assets Global password protection and management (custom banned passwords, users synchronized from on-premises Active Directory)
• Instrumental is the application launch portal and user application collections in My Apps

Conclusion

In Conclusion, if your organization is seeking to do controlled access including user management, Microsoft Entra ID P1 is a necessary requirement.  On the other hand, this subscription is the first level of engagement when it comes to security through Active Directory in Azure.  Microsoft has Entra ID as the gateway to the Azure cloud space. For instance, when it was first conceptualized, it was called Azure AD P1, the AD segment was noted for Active Directory. Similarly, this Active Directory naming convention was to alert users of the on-premise environment that this product was made for their needs in the cloud. Microsoft has more information published online about Micorsoft Entra ID and its various uses in this link here.

Hence, if your organization has already gone through the P1 plan, then you are ready for the next level in Active Directory via Azure, and that is Microsoft Entra ID P2.