What's deprecated in Microsoft Entra ID?

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10/23/2023

The lifecycle of functionality, features, and services are governed by policy, support timelines, data, also leadership and engineering team decisions. Lifecycle information allows customers to predictably plan long-term deployment aspects, transition from outdated to new technology, and help improve business outcomes.

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Upcoming changes

Use the following table to learn about changes including deprecations, retirements, breaking changes and rebranding. Also find key dates and recommendations.

Note

Dates and times are United States Pacific Standard Time, and are subject to change.

Functionality, feature, or service	Change	Change date
System-preferred authentication methods	Feature change	Sometime after GA
Azure AD Graph API	Start of phased retirement	Jul 2023
Terms of Use experience	Feature change	Jul 2023
Azure AD PowerShell and MSOnline PowerShell	Deprecation	Mar 30, 2024
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server	Retirement	Sep 30, 2024
Legacy MFA & SSPR policy	Retirement	Sep 30, 2025
'Require approved client app' Conditional Access Grant	Retirement	Mar 31, 2026

Past changes

Functionality, feature, or service	Change	Change date
Azure AD Authentication Library (ADAL)	Retirement	Jun 30, 2023
My Apps improvements	Feature change	Jun 30, 2023
Microsoft Authenticator Lite for Outlook mobile	Feature change	Jun 9, 2023
My Groups experience	Feature change	May 2023
My Apps browser extension	Feature change	May 2023
Microsoft Authenticator app Number matching	Feature change	May 8, 2023
Microsoft Entra Domain Services virtual network deployments	Retirement	Mar 1, 2023
License management API, PowerShell	Retirement	*Mar 31, 2023

* The legacy license management API and PowerShell cmdlets won't work for new tenants created after Nov 1, 2022.

Important

Later versions of functionality, features, and services might not meet current security requirements. Microsoft may be unable to provide security updates for older products.

See the following two sections for definitions of categories, change state, etc.

Deprecation, retirement, breaking change, feature change, and rebranding

Use the definitions in this section help clarify the state, availability, and support of features, services, and functionality.

Category	Definition	Communication schedule
Retirement	Signals retirement of a feature, capability, or product in a specified period. Customers can't adopt the service or feature, and engineering investments are reduced. Later, the feature reaches end-of-life and is unavailable to any customer.	Two times per year: March and September
Breaking change	A change that might break the customer or partner experience if action isn't taken, or a change made, for continued operation.	Four times per year: March, June, September, and December
Feature change	Change to an existing Identity feature that requires no customer action, but is noticeable to them. Typically, these changes are in the user interface/user experperience (UI/UX).	Four times per year: March, June, September, and December

Terminology

End-of-life - engineering investments have ended, and the feature is unavailable to any customer

Next steps

What's new in Microsoft Entra ID?