Microsoft Entra Identity Platform

A developer platform that helps protect your users and data.

Securing identity: Exploring application types and authentication flows

April 24, 2024 Apr 24, 2024 04/24/24

Adam Matthews

Building on the foundations laid out in an earlier blog post on IAM basics, this blog post dives into the world of application types and authentication flows.

Announcing the Upcoming Deprecation of MSAL.NET for Xamarin and UWP

April 12, 2024 Apr 12, 2024 04/12/24

Den Delimarsky

Announcing the deprecation of the Xamarin and UWP versions of MSAL.NET starting with MSAL.NET 4.61.0.

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.

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.

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.

Announcing Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET 4.54.0, with General Availability of Managed Identity APIs

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23

Den Delimarsky

Today our team is excited to announce the release of Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET version 4.54.0!

Improved Windows Broker Support with MSAL.NET

April 3, 2023 Apr 3, 2023 04/3/23

Sameer 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...

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 ...