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Updated Azure Active Directory to Entra ID

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Microsoft have renamed Azure Active Directory to Entra ID.  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/new-name .  This PR updates references to AAD to refer to Entra ID.

* On each documentation page, I include `formerly Azure Active Directory` in the first non heading reference to Entra ID.  This will help anyone unfaimiliar withthe  name change, and will also mean the page continues to show up in search results if people search for the old name.
* I didn't correct references in file names, as this would cause broken links.  If we have a way of redirecting those to new urls I can look at doign that, but if not, I think it's better to leave existing links working.
* There were a few references to AAD in release notes for older versions - I left these alone as the product naming was correct at the time of the release notes.
* LDAP provider still has references to "Active Directory" as these reference to the on premise Active Directory, not Azure Active Directory

Signed-off-by: Alex Crome <afscrome@users.noreply.github.com>
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description: Adding Azure's EasyAuth Proxy as an authentication provider in Backstage
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The Backstage `core-plugin-api` package comes with a Microsoft authentication provider that can authenticate users using Azure Active Directory for PaaS service hosted in Azure that support Easy Auth, such as Azure App Services.
The Backstage `core-plugin-api` package comes with a Microsoft authentication provider that can authenticate users using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) for PaaS service hosted in Azure that support Easy Auth, such as Azure App Services.
## Backstage Changes
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## Azure Configuration
How to configure azure depends on the service you're enable AAD auth on the app service.
How to configure azure depends on the Azure service you're using to host Backstage.
### Azure App Services
To use EasyAuth with App Services, turn on Active Directory authentication
To use EasyAuth with App Services, turn on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) authentication
You must also enable the token store.
The following example shows how to do this via a bicep template: