Docs updates resulting from Azure AD B2C end of sale - p2

Author: kengaderdus

articles/security/fundamentals/identity-management-best-practices.md

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 ms.service: security
 ms.subservice: security-fundamentals
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 09/29/2024
+ms.date: 05/28/2025
 ms.author: mbaldwin
 
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@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ For more information, see [Implement password hash synchronization with Microsof
 
   - Microsoft Entra ID for employees
   - [Microsoft Entra B2B](../../active-directory/external-identities/index.yml) for guest users and external partners
-  - [Azure AD B2C](../../active-directory-b2c/index.yml) to control how customers sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles when they use your applications
+  - [Microsoft Entra External ID](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md) to control how customers sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles when they use your applications
 
 Organizations that don’t integrate their on-premises identity with their cloud identity can have more overhead in managing accounts. This overhead increases the likelihood of mistakes and security breaches.
 

articles/security/fundamentals/identity-management-overview.md

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 ms.service: security
 ms.subservice: security-fundamentals
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 09/25/2024
+ms.date: 05/25/2025
 ms.author: mbaldwin
 # Customer intent: As an IT Pro or decision maker, I am trying to learn about identity management capabilities in Azure
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@@ -106,16 +106,13 @@ Learn more: [Microsoft Entra ID reporting guide](../../active-directory/reports-
 
 ## Consumer identity and access management
 
-Azure AD B2C is a highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can sign in to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating new credentials.
+[Microsoft Entra External ID in external tenants](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md) is a highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can sign in to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating new credentials.
 
-In the past, application developers who wanted to sign up customers and sign them in to their applications would have written their own code. And they would have used on-premises databases or systems to store usernames and passwords. Azure AD B2C offers your organization a better way to integrate consumer identity management into applications with the help of a secure, standards-based platform and a large set of extensible policies.
+In the past, application developers who wanted to sign up customers and sign them in to their applications would have written their own code. And they would have used on-premises databases or systems to store usernames and passwords. Microsoft Entra External ID offers your organization a better way to integrate consumer identity management into applications with the help of a secure, standards-based platform and a large set of extensible policies.
 
-When you use Azure AD B2C, your consumers can sign up for your applications by using their existing social accounts (Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn) or by creating new credentials (email address and password, or username and password).
+When you use Microsoft Entra External ID, your consumers can sign up for your applications by using their existing social accounts (Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn) or by creating new credentials (email address and password, or username and password).
 
-Learn more:
-
-* [What is Azure Active Directory B2C?](../../active-directory-b2c/overview.md)
-* [Azure Active Directory B2C: Types of applications](../../active-directory-b2c/application-types.md)
+Learn more about [Microsoft Entra External ID in external tenants](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md)
 
 ## Device registration
 

articles/security/fundamentals/isolation-choices.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Some other capabilities for Microsoft Entra ID include:
 
 - [Microsoft Entra Domain Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/active-directory-ds/) lets you join Azure virtual machines to an Active Directory domain without deploying domain controllers. You can sign in to these virtual machines with your corporate Active Directory credentials and administer domain-joined virtual machines by using Group Policy to enforce security baselines on all your Azure virtual machines.
 
-- [Azure Active Directory B2C](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/active-directory-b2c/) provides a highly available global-identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can sign in to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating credentials.
+- [Microsoft Entra External ID](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md) provides a highly available global-identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can sign in to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating credentials.
 
 ### Isolation from Microsoft Administrators & Data Deletion
 

articles/security/fundamentals/services-technologies.md

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 ms.service: security
 ms.subservice: security-fundamentals
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 04/23/2025
+ms.date: 05/23/2025
 ms.author: mbaldwin
 
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Over time, this list will change and grow, just as Azure does. Make sure to chec
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 | [Azure role-based access control](../../role-based-access-control/role-assignments-portal.yml)|An access control feature designed to allow users to access only the resources they are required to access based on their roles within the organization.  |
 | [Microsoft Entra ID](../../active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-whatis.md)|A cloud-based identity and access management service that supports a multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and multiple identity management services within Azure.  |
-| [Azure Active Directory B2C](../../active-directory-b2c/overview.md)| A customer identity access management (CIAM) solution that enables control over how customers sign-up, sign-in, and manage their profiles when using Azure-based applications.   |
+| [Microsoft Entra External ID in external tenants](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md)| A customer identity access management (CIAM) solution that enables control over how customers sign-up, sign-in, and manage their profiles when using Azure-based applications.   |
 | [Microsoft Entra Domain Services](../../active-directory-domain-services/overview.md)| A cloud-based and managed version of Active Directory Domain Services that provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos/NTLM authentication. |
 | [Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication](../../active-directory/authentication/concept-mfa-howitworks.md)| A security provision that employs several different forms of authentication and verification before allowing access to secured information. |
 

articles/security/fundamentals/technical-capabilities.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ manager: rkarlin
 ms.service: security
 ms.subservice: security-fundamentals
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 04/23/2025
+ms.date: 05/23/2025
 ms.author: mbaldwin
 
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@@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ In the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), [reports](../../active-director
 
 #### Consumer identity and access management
 
-[Azure Active Directory B2C](../../active-directory-b2c/overview.md) is a highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can log on to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating new credentials.
+ [Microsoft Entra External ID](../../active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview.md) is a highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. It can be integrated across mobile and web platforms. Your consumers can log on to all your applications through customizable experiences by using their existing social accounts or by creating new credentials.
 
-In the past, application developers who wanted to sign up and sign in consumers into their applications would have written their own code. And they would have used on-premises databases or systems to store usernames and passwords. Azure Active Directory B2C offers your organization a better way to integrate consumer identity management into applications with the help of a secure, standards-based platform, and a large set of extensible policies.
+In the past, application developers who wanted to sign up and sign in consumers into their applications would have written their own code. And they would have used on-premises databases or systems to store usernames and passwords. Azure Microsoft Entra External ID offers your organization a better way to integrate consumer identity management into applications with the help of a secure, standards-based platform, and a large set of extensible policies.
 
-When you use Azure Active Directory B2C, your consumers can sign up for your applications by using their existing social accounts (Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn) or by creating new credentials (email address and password, or username and password).
+When you use Microsoft Entra External ID, your consumers can sign up for your applications by using their existing social accounts (Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn) or by creating new credentials (email address and password, or username and password).
 
 #### Device registration