Enhancement: Rename Azure AD to Entra ID

[MartinM85]

Hi,

Since Azure Active Directory was renamed to Entra ID recently, does it make sense to start using the term Entra ID in new commands and docs?

Is there any plan for renaming the command prefix aad to entra? Probably a breaking change.

Specs

• Rename command workload aad to entra
• Add aad aliasses to all commands in this workload
• Rename the workload in the sidebar to Entra ID (entra)
• Separate issue with breaking change: Remove aad aliasses in the next major version #5676
• Separate issue for options with prefix: Update options that have an aad prefix (like '--aadUserId') #5745
• Rename aad utils to entra #5757
• Show deprecation warning for aad commands #5762
• Rename AAD to Entra in docs #5780

[milanholemans]

Hi @MartinM85, this is indeed something we have been thinking about. We plan to remove the aad group in v8 next year. Until then we will support it so we don't introduce a breaking change. The plan was to introduce Microsoft Entra ID and support aad simultaneously. However, we wanted to see which abbreviation would be used by people (like AAD). Will it be entra? meid? eid?
@pnp/cli-for-microsoft-365-maintainers, have we decided yet which one we're going to use?

If we decide how the command group should be called, we can start renaming it and add aad as an alias.

[waldekmastykarz]

meid would be confusing with @me tokens that we've got, so I suggest we don't use that. I think entra might be the best choice, because following the naming guidelines, you should use Entra ID only when referring to Azure Active Directory itself, but when you refer to its elements such as app reg or a user, you say Entra user and Entra app registration without ID

[martinlingstuyl]

I'm on board with this. entra seems a good command group name.

The entry in the docs sidebar could be renamed to 'Entra ID (entra)'.

(That is: until we get feature requests for new commands in other entra parts)

[martinlingstuyl]

Ok, so I feel like we reached a decision on entra here. Is it time to get this shipped @pnp/cli-for-microsoft-365-maintainers? I've added some specs to the issue.

[Jwaegebaert]

entra is good for me as well

[garrytrinder]

+1 entra

[Adam-it]

+1 entra

+1

Thanks @martinlingstuyl for taking the lead on this. You rock 🤩

[nicodecleyre]

Can I work on this?

[Adam-it]

Can I work on this?

Sure 👍

[nicodecleyre]

Not that this should be included in this PR. But we should also not forget that there are commands with options that include 'aad' in their name

[martinlingstuyl]

That's a very good point!