Microsoft Entra Verified ID

Entra Verified ID is Microsoft's verifiable-credentials platform built on open standards (W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model, Decentralized Identifiers, OpenID4VC). It lets an organization issue signed digital credentials to anyone (employees, contractors, customers) and verify credentials issued by others (Microsoft, governments, partners, your own tenant) — without sharing user identity data over a backchannel.

When to use

• High-confidence onboarding (remote new-hire identity proofing).
• Account recovery without help-desk calls.
• Cross-organization access (contractor with a VC from their employer).
• Vendor/partner identity proofing before privileged access.
• Customer scenarios needing portable, user-controlled credentials.

Do not use this skill for B2C consumer auth (entra-external-id), standard workforce identity (entra-id), or X.509 PKI (pki-design).

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