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Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits (www.theregister.com)
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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah office isn’t the what orgs care about losing with this change. Business premium was the lowest cost license option available to non-profits that allowed access to identity management using entra.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

That’s the real story here.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Identity and access management ensures that the right people, machines, and software components get access to the right resources at the right time. First, the person, machine, or software component proves they're who or what they claim to be. Then, the person, machine, or software component is allowed or denied access to or use of certain resources.

So that's what's that called. Is that also what tracks who access what and when?

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Entra is basically the cloud version of Active Directory, it lets you use SAML to build single sign on systems that use your Microsoft account as the identity provider

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not “basically” btw - entra is the azure/cloud version of AD. It was renamed.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It serves the same function , but comparing the two is kind of apples to oranges at this point

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 1 week ago

I’m just saying it literally is Azure AD renamed:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/identity/aad-rebrand/