Microsoft Entra Identity Platform

Public vs. confidential clients and how to avoid common security pitfalls in identity

October 18, 2023 Oct 18, 2023 10/18/23

Brian Melton-Grace

This blog post delves into the critical differences between public clients, which are inherently more exposed and vulnerable, and confidential clients, which operate under stringent security measures to safeguard sensitive data. You’ll discover why knowing the difference matters and learn a few best practices to help you avoid common pitfalls.

Join us in shaping the future of multicloud workload identity

September 28, 2023 Sep 28, 2023 09/28/23

Hosam Shahin, Pieter Kasselman

As businesses adopt multicloud strategies, the challenge of deploying, maintaining, and managing least privilege access between workloads within and across clouds is growing. We’re building a streamlined, unified solution and we want your input. Join us on this journey!

Identity is not just for humans

September 19, 2023 Sep 19, 2023 09/19/23

Pieter Kasselman

Part one of a three-part series on why we need machine identities, what the key building blocks are, what standards are available, and what gaps we need to fill.

Introducing MSAL.Browser v3: What developers need to know

September 7, 2023 Sep 7, 2023 09/7/23

Emily Lauber

MSAL.Browser releases a v3 with performance improvements, updated framework support, and minimal breaking changes.

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July 31, 2023 Jul 31, 2023 07/31/23

James Casey

We're excited to announce that you can now subscribe to the Microsoft Entra Developer blog via email! By subscribing, you’ll get the latest updates on Microsoft Entra delivered straight to your inbox. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love getting fun and exciting emails?

Introducing Microsoft Entra ID Recommendations For Identifying ADAL Applications

July 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023 07/11/23

Den Delimarsky

Earlier this year we announced the sunset of the Azure AD Authentication Library (ADAL). ADAL has been officially deprecated on June 30th of this year. As part of this announcement, we heard it loud and clear from our customers that they need help in identifying applications that still use ADAL in their tenants.

Azure AD is being renamed to Microsoft Entra ID

July 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023 07/11/23

James Casey

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is being renamed in unification with the expanded Microsoft Entra identity and network access product family.

Empowering developers in the new Dev Center

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

James Casey

New developer resources and features for Microsoft Entra External ID, the next-gen CIAM platform.

Join us at Microsoft Build 2023 to learn more about Consumer Identity (CIAM) with Microsoft Entra

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23

James Casey

Come join us at Microsoft Build 2023 to learn more about Consumer Identity (CIAM) with Microsoft Entra

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.