Moving users from an on-premises identity model to a cloud‑first approach is a key milestone in modernizing your organization’s security and lifecycle management. For years, hybrid identity meant that Active Directory remained the Source of Authority (SOA), limiting what administrators could edit in the cloud and creating unnecessary dependencies on on‑prem infrastructure. With Microsoft’s new capability to transfer the user SOA to Entra ID, organizations can finally unlock full cloud‑native identity governance, streamline provisioning, reduce attack surface, and eliminate AD‑based constraints on user attributes. This shift enables a cleaner, more secure, and more scalable identity posture fully aligned with a modern Zero‑Trust cloud environment.
For years, hybrid identity has been the standard. We synchronize users from on-premises Active Directory (AD) to Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), giving our people one set of credentials for b...
Published Dec 15, 2025
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