Last Updated on August 13, 2025 by Arnav Sharma
Introduced a year ago, the Microsoft Entra product family of identity and access solutions has expanded to meet the requirements for permissions management, identity governance, external identities, workload identities, and decentralised identity solutions.
- Beginning in mid-August 2023, the new identity will roll out to all Microsoft services.
- Customers are not required to act; developer tools and Azure benefits are unaffected.
- Customers presently using or deploying Azure AD in their organisations can continue to use the service uninterrupted. Existing deployments, configurations, integrations, and all capabilities and features will continue to operate normally.
Microsoft is not modifying any code that could affect functionality to ensure a seamless transition. Existing authentication URLs, APIs, PowerShell cmdlets, and libraries within the Microsoft identity platform for developers, such as the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL), will not be modified.
All licencing plans, pricing, and SLAs for Azure AD and Microsoft 365 plans that include Azure AD remain the same; only the display identities of the service plans are changing.
On October 1, 2023, the display identities of SKUs and Service Plans will change.
Microsoft suggests that customer-facing content and experiences be updated with the “Microsoft Entra ID” title by the end of 2023, and we will publish guidelines for content creators, developers, and IT departments.
