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Using the Microsoft Authentication Library with the Windows authentication broker

May 17, 2023 May 17, 2023 05/17/23
Den Delimarsky
One of the interesting developments in the last few years in the field of authentication is the use of authentication brokers. Authentication brokers help make your applications more secure and resilient by enabling developers to remove the need to handle refresh tokens, simplify the user authentication flow and remove any variability from it, and take advantage of more complex authentication features, like Windows Hello, conditional access, and FIDO keys.

Microsoft Entra Identity Developer Newsletter – April 2023

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23
Marcus Carvalho
April is here! It's time for this month's highlights: NOTE: Visit What's deprecated in Azure Active Directory? for information about all deprecations.     What’s new in libraries     Developer-focused guidance     Generally Available (GA) since March 2023     Product updates     Identity ...

Improved Windows Broker Support with MSAL.NET

April 3, 2023 Apr 3, 2023 04/3/23
authorsSameer Khandekar, Den Delimarsky
The Identity SDK team just released a brand-new version of the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET that introduces an improved experience for developers using authentication brokers to simplify how they acquire and use tokens in their applications. To take advantage of the new broker functionality, developers will need to use the...

How the Microsoft identity platform helps developers manage identity risk

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23
Levent Besik
Our vision for the Microsoft identity platform is to create a thriving developer and app ecosystem that makes securing identities easy. In fact, over one million applications use our platform, performing over eight billion authentications per day. We combine this with the 65 trillion signals that Microsoft Security processes each day to help ...

Update your applications from ADAL to MSAL

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
Den Delimarsky
Since the release of Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) we have made considerable progress in evolving the Microsoft identity platform developer tools, consistently bringing new features and capabilities that enable developers to build secure applications with minimal friction. As we grew the platform, we also learned that ...