Essential features of Microsoft Entra ID

Your company wants to improve how it provides services to doctors and how it collaborates with external healthcare organizations. You’re asked to investigate what other capabilities and services Microsoft Entra ID can provide for the organization.

Here, we explore some essential features of Microsoft Entra ID and how you can use them. Specifically, we look at Microsoft Entra B2B, Azure AD B2C, Microsoft Entra Domain Services (AD DS), and Microsoft Entra ID Protection. Features, that you can use to help improve how you manage apps in Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft Entra B2B

Use Microsoft Entra ID to invite external users to your tenant. Your organization can then collaborate with external healthcare partner staff members through Microsoft Entra B2B Collaboration.

For example, your company works with external healthcare partners. You can invite these partners as guest users to your tenant. When their work is done, you can revoke access for those external partners until they need it again.

Here’s the B2B collaboration process:

1. The external user either receives an email invitation that includes a redemption link or gets a direct link.
2. The user selects the redemption link to access the apps they were invited to.
3. If multifactor authentication is set up, the user receives a verification code on their phone.
4. The user provides the code they received.
5. The user can access the app, whether it’s on-premises or in the cloud.

This feature is available for all licensing tiers in Microsoft Entra ID.