The EasyEntra Entra ID section (cloud object browsing) supports two modes: Incremental Loading Mode and Full Loading Mode. Switch between the two modes using the dropdown in the Entra ID browser, top section:
Incremental Loading Mode works like the standard admin portals from Microsoft, and has multiple limitations:
- Loads a maximum of 100 objects per page in an “endless scrolling” style.
- Free-text searching only targets names and email addresses.
- Attribute-specific searching only supports specific attributes and only identifies “starts with” matches.
- Only the Display Name and UserPrincipalName columns can be sorted.
Full Loading Mode solves these limitations:
- The complete dataset is loaded.
- Free-text searching targets all visible attributes (you can add/remove attributes by right-clicking the column header).
- Free-text searching on specific attributes. Example: type “lic=e5” to find all licenses containing the phrase “e5”.
- Sorting is available on all columns.
The only catch in Full Loading Mode is the load time. Expect approximately two to four seconds per 5,000 records, depending on Internet connectivity.
For tenants with <1,000 users, we recommend using Full Loading Mode as the default setting, as the load time is very close to standard Incremental Loading Mode.
For larger tenants, use Incremental Loading Mode for day-to-day ad-hoc administration and enable Full Loading Mode to satisfy your more advanced searching needs.
Supported Filtering in Full Loading Mode
With Full Loading Mode, you have advanced searching available right at your fingertips.
Searches are only matched against visible columns. You must add columns to the view to search them. This is easily done by right-clicking the column header and selecting the columns you want to view/search:
Free-Text Searching in Full Loading Mode
Full Loading Mode supports free-text searching across all visible attributes:
This means you can, e.g., search out all members of a department simply by typing in the department name.
The standard Incremental Loading Mode will only match against “starts-with,” but in EasyEntra Full Loading Mode, searching is done as free-text searching, and any match is immediately listed in the search results:
Attribute-Specific Searching in Full Loading Mode
EasyEntra Full Loading Mode also supports attribute-specific queries. Type (parts of) the attribute name followed by equals (=) and the attribute value to execute attribute-specific queries:
lic=e5to find all licenses containing “e5”co=denmarkto find all countries containing “denmark”city="new york"to find all cities containing “new york”
You can combine filters to create more advanced searches.
lic=e3 lic=e5to find all licenses containing “e3” OR “e5”
lic=e5 co=denmarkto find all users that have an E5 license AND country set to Denmarkdep=sales cou=netherto find all users where department contains “sales” AND country contains “nether”syncstat=cloud title=lead dep=devto find cloud-only accounts where title contains “lead” AND department contains “dev”
Queries across different attributes are performed as AND, meaning the result is narrowed further by each additional filter.
Multiple filters on the same attribute are performed as OR, meaning the result is expanded by each additional filter:
co=denmark co=germanyto include users from both countrieslic=e3 lic=e5to list users with E3 licenses as well as users with E5 licenses
For example:
lic=e3 e5finds entries where Licenses contains “e3” AND any visible column contains “e5”.
In this example, e5 is a free-text search and is not limited to the Licenses attribute.
For more advanced filtering scenarios, export the data to Excel and use Excel’s filtering capabilities.
Supported Filtering in Incremental Loading Mode
Incremental Loading Mode is similar to using the standard admin portals from Microsoft.
Free-Text Searching in Incremental Loading Mode
Free-text queries are matched against DisplayName, GivenName, Surname, UserPrincipalName, Mail, and OtherMails. No other attributes are matched.
Attribute-Specific Searching in Incremental Loading Mode
In EasyEntra, you can perform attribute-specific searching by typing the attribute name equals (=) the search value:
- department=sales
- country=denmark
- title=manager
Just like the standard admin portals from Microsoft, these queries are only matched as “starts-with” filters.
The query department=sales will match “Sales” and “Sales and Marketing”. It will not match “EU Sales” or “B2B Sales”. This is a limitation in the MS Graph API.
