Comparison
Policytab and the Microsoft Entra admin center
Microsoft gives you Conditional Access controls. Policytab adds fleet drift visibility, sign-in impact modeling, and a change workflow with dry-run and rollback - without replacing Entra for identity administration.
| Task | Entra admin center | Policytab |
|---|---|---|
| See Conditional Access drift across tenants | Manual policy review per tenant in the Entra admin center | Workspace dashboard with per-tenant comparison baselines and resync alerts |
| Predict impact before enforcing a policy | Report-only mode, then hope - or export sign-ins yourself | Impact analysis over recent Microsoft Graph sign-in logs before apply |
| Safe, auditable CA changes | Direct portal edits with no dry-run or rollback trail | Dry-run, approval workflow, pre/post snapshots, one-click rollback |
| Track exclusions and MFA posture | Spreadsheets, group membership checks, stale admin hunts | Time-bound exclusions with auto-expiry; MFA staleness on the dashboard |
| Fleet health for MSPs | Switch tenants in the portal; no cross-customer rollup | Per-tenant health buckets, open alerts, and drift counts in one workspace view |
| Break-glass and emergency access | Sign-in logs only; no scheduled break-glass policy checks | Break-glass sign-in monitoring and daily validator for missing exclusions |
Policytab is not affiliated with Microsoft. Entra ID, Azure, and Microsoft 365 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Most teams keep the Entra admin center for user lifecycle, licensing, and non-CA settings. Policytab is where operators run CA at scale - especially when managing more than one tenant or when every change needs evidence.