| title | Training, demos, and videos |
|---|---|
| description | Explore Microsoft Entra External ID training, live demos, and videos. Learn to create secure sign-up experiences and protect access with multifactor authentication. |
| ms.topic | concept-article |
| ms.date | 09/16/2025 |
| ms.custom | it-pro |
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The Microsoft Entra External ID training module serves as a proof of concept for exploring, understanding, and evaluating Microsoft Entra External ID. It guides you through a hypothetical scenario where you work for an online grocery store that uses Microsoft Entra External ID to register and sign in your customers. By the end of the module, a working prototype will be running in your own environment.
In the training module, you'll:
- Create your first Microsoft Entra External ID tenant.
- Build a branded, seamless, and secure sign-up and sign-in experience for your web application.
- Evaluate Microsoft Entra External ID identity provider capabilities against consumer and business customer needs.
- Protect access to your application with Conditional Access and multifactor authentication.
To start the training, go to Guided project – Build a sample app to evaluate Microsoft Entra External ID and follow the units in order.
Microsoft Entra External ID videos are incorporated within our documentation and can also be found under the Microsoft Security Channel and Microsoft Entra External ID playlist on YouTube. These videos range from conceptual explanations and practical "how-to" guides to extensive series designed as courses.
We regularly expand our video library, so be sure to subscribe to the Microsoft Security Channel for the latest updates. Here are some videos to help you get started with Microsoft Entra External ID.
Microsoft Entra External ID is Microsoft’s customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform. It helps control who has access to your external facing applications continually verify their online identity while ensuring their personal information and privacy remain safeguarded. This video gives you an introduction to Microsoft Entra External ID, its capabilities and what it’s like to use it as an end user.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/XuxXCMOYiSc?si=yX21DVcKsozFPM0v]
Microsoft Entra External ID allows secure and customizable sign-ins for customer-facing apps. For businesses that want to provide their customers with apps for buying products, subscribing to services, or accessing their account data, it offers robust customer identity and access management (CIAM). It lets you easily integrate your apps and get all the security, reliability, and scalability benefits of Microsoft Entra. This video highlights some of the most commonly used Entra external ID features.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/zb5tpY1sGaE?si=n1KLhaTF044jhnex]
The Woodgrove Groceries live demo is a fictional global food retailer that uses Microsoft Entra External ID for its online shopping app. This video shows how to use the live demo and demonstrates how you can try out the authentication features you can configure for customer-facing apps.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRhD-1WLrh8?si=y5iXA9dNskWfXO-Z]
This tutorial guides you through creating a new Microsoft Entra External ID tenant and helps you get started with running a sample app and signing in your users. It also explores the various components involved and discusses ways to enhance your configuration.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/AgjAgcBOehU?si=Rqg7UHxq-43VpCjy]
The video covers how to integrate social identity providers like Facebook, Google and Apple into application sign-up and sign-in flows. It focuses on how you can enhance and personalize the registration experience. It also describes ways to ensure robust security and manage users efficiently using Microsoft Entra External ID.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/lIdGt9rDM-E?si=8n1_G_AqFbYDP22y]
This video explains how to configure a custom OpenID Connect identity provider in Microsoft Entra External ID. It will guide you through the steps to set up a new federation, including entering the necessary details such as the well-known endpoint, issuer URI, claims mapping and more.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/L0QmRs-x-1c?si=p8A-dGOg48IxvgzL]
The following video provides instructions on how to protect access to applications using Microsoft Entra external ID. It outlines the steps for securing application access and implementing enhanced protection with Microsoft Entra external ID to ensure only authorized users and software components can access your application.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/H76KFHocM0M?si=1CrSLVOgks79B-XL]
This video explores the intricacies of role-based control and claims-based authorization for applications using Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra External ID.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/gHJjcWpZN_4?si=pL8bTHW2DHfiqjA7] The second part guides you through setting up application role-based access control using Microsoft Entra External ID and shows how to effectively integrate it into your application and web APIs.
The video explains step-up authentication and tenant configuration. In step-up authentication, users sign in with minimal authentication steps, like a username and password, or a social identity. However, upon risky actions, like high-value transactions or accessing sensitive data, the application requires more verifications.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/869Opl4TQT0?si=pNYU5zrrpP1r9PTz]
This introductory video outlines the key features and advantages of Microsoft Entra custom authentication extensions. It explains how to integrate your own claims provider, perform input validation during the sign-up process, and customize verification emails.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZU90avf0Qyc?si=N-kzaOC7KgeZmpKk]
This video provides detailed instructions on configuring Microsoft Entra custom authentication extensions and offers best practices and valuable tips for optimal implementation.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/EamkX9aFTYw?si=k0ziK2thbJ6V4BtZ]
Microsoft Entra custom authentication extensions allow organizations to integrate custom business logic into their authentication workflows. This video outlines the procedure of mapping claims from external systems into security tokens using Microsoft Entra custom authentication extensions (knonwd as custom claims provider).
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/_CD3shvqpx4?si=cYvAO8CyXuI9YPiS]
This video explains how to create Microsoft Entra custom authentication extensions with Azure Logic Apps, without writing code. Azure Logic App empowers users to build workflows using a visual designer. The video covers customizing verification emails, and it applies to all types of custom authentication extensions, including custom claims providers.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ZzX6_W93Sk?si=P9URBkKVnXPZ6Kfc]
In this video, we’ll explore the various methods available for accessing and editing user profiles in Microsoft Entra External ID.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zKCgukVHYw?si=8T6TAdEorg4SHUUc]
This video examines the benefits of using Microsoft Graph API and Microsoft Graph PowerShell for automating tasks and running batch operations. Streamline deployment with GitHub workflows to reduce integration and deployment issues, speed up release cycles, improve change management, and maintain version control across different environments.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gnv4ISZhzgA?si=ecX14P_QNKJPpEZM]
Microsoft Entra External ID extension for Visual Studio Code lets you quickly create external tenants, configure sign-in experiences for external users, and set up an External ID sample, all directly within Visual Studio Code. Watch this video to learn how to install and use the extension.
[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/j_syxt3N1pg?si=p3wdSmyGzddGa3R7]
These how-to videos guide you through using Microsoft Entra External ID:
- How to use OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow in your application and web APIs.
- Step-up authentication