Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
A developer platform that helps protect your users and data.
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Announcing Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET 4.54.0, with General Availability of Managed Identity APIs
Today our team is excited to announce the release of Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET version 4.54.0!
Microsoft Entra Identity Developer Newsletter – May 2023
Check the latest product updates and upcoming events with our May newsletter! Stay informed and stay ahead with valuable insights!
Scope App Permissions for Secure Automation using Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Microsoft Graph app permissions for a service or daemon may be too permissive, but more granular permissions can be scoped using Azure AD.
Microsoft Entra Identity Developer Newsletter – April 2023
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 YouTube Channel Latest videos on the Identity YouTube channel:   Microsoft identity platform community calls The Microsoft identity platform developer community call is on the 3rd Thursday of each month with an interesting topic and speaker every month. To join the call, cli...
Improved Windows Broker Support with MSAL.NET
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 package from NuGet, starting with version 4.52.0. What is a Broker An authentication broker is an application that runs on a user’s machine that handles the authentication handshakes and token maintenance for connected accounts. As its authentication broker, the Windows ...
How the Microsoft identity platform helps developers manage identity risk
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 us identify risky users, risky sign ins and risky workload identities – and we use this data to make your applications more secure. In this blog I share how our platform enables developers to protect their users and apps without being identity or security experts. I will als...
Update your applications from ADAL to MSAL
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 our customers wanted a consistent API, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support, as well as the ability to work with Microsoft accounts (MSA), external identities, and Azure Active Directory Business to Consumer accounts. This led us to the creation of the Microsoft Authen...
Welcome to the Microsoft Entra Identity Developer blog
Welcome to the Microsoft Entra Identity Developer Blog! We are glad to have a space to collaborate directly with you - our developers on this platform. We will share Microsoft Identity related topics pertaining to application development and management. Learn about how identity plays a role in your end-to-end development scenarios, the efforts we are making in identity standards, events you can learn from, ways you can join the developer community and contribute to the platform. We will also share case studies from developers on how they are making their most on the Microsoft Identity Platform. Key dates Here's...