This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(140.8, 42%, 23%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EJP%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
I need to migrate users from an on prem Auth provider, where I am not able to access the passwords (On way hashed) to Entra External ID, Is there away in Entra to valid the user against the on prem auth when signing in and then move the password to Entra external ID, Similar to B2C Custom Policy?Or is there a way to supply the salted password with the salt?
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(300.8, 75%, 39%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3ETS%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hi @timscott
No we did find a way to do this, because of lack of migration options we abandoned plans to use Entra External ID
Hi @Jason Peate ,
Thank you for you reply. Much appreciated!
What a waste. The product is appears to be designed for our specific use case, but only if you have a greenfield site.
Maybe this is External ID is in "Production Pilot" mode, without a migration method it will only get low volume use.
Duplicate
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(278.4, 45%, 36%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EAV%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hi @Jason Peate
Thank you for reaching us!
If I understand correctly, you are looking a way to move the on-premises user's passwords to Entra External ID if this the case, synchronizing the users from on-premises to Microsoft Entra External ID is not possible because there is no feature available in the tenant. This means you cannot directly sync passwords from on-premises to Entra External ID
If you need to migrate users, you might have to manually recreate user accounts and reset their passwords. This can be a time-consuming process and may require users to set new passwords.
Appreciate if you could share the feedback on this, on our feedback community which is closely monitored by our product team
Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries in the comments section.
Thanks,
Akhilesh.
If this answers your query, do click Accept Answer and Yes for was this answer helpful. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Hi @Jason Peate
Following up to see if the above answer was helpful. If this answers your query, do click Accept Answer and Yes for was this answer helpful. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(19.2, 28.000000000000004%, 11%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EPM%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Akhilesh - if we were looking to migrate from another cloud-based IDP and we can get the passwords, is a seamless migration possible?
I have done something similar with ADB2C, following these guidelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/user-migration#seamless-migration and this repo: https://github.com/azure-ad-b2c/user-migration
Would you expect this to also work for Entra External ID?
Hi @Paul McCarthy ,
Did you find a way to migrate users into Entra External ID?
I am looking at migrating an existing user directory, but there seems to be no doco on how to do it.
Thanks,
Tim