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Microsoft Authentication Libraries for .NET and JavaScript are now Generally Available!

May 6th, 2019
I'm happy to announce that Microsoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL) for .NET and JavaScript are now Generally Available!  MSAL makes it easy for your application to sign in users and get access tokens to securely call protected APIs - from your own APIs to Microsoft Graph.  MSAL enables secure access to data for any Microsoft identity – from personal Microsoft accounts to work or school accounts provided by Azure Active Directory.

New App registrations experience is now generally available!

May 6th, 2019
The new app registrations experience in the Azure Portal is now generally available worldwide and in national clouds! Last November we kicked off the public preview for this experience and since then we’ve seen a number of organization and developers using the new experience and have been working hard to polish it.

The Microsoft Identity platform is OpenID Connect certified!

May 6th, 2019
Azure AD and personal Microsoft accounts come together under a single standards-compliant protocol – OpenID Connect.

Our thoughts on implicit grant with Microsoft identity

May 3rd, 2019
Microsoft Azure Active Directory uses open industry standard protocols such as OAuth2 and OpenID Connect. The OAuth2 working group recently released a draft of the best practices on how to secure applications using OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.

Behavior Change: Confirmation dialog for native OAuth 2.0 applications

April 18th, 2019
We’re announcing that we will be introducing a user experience change to our OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow for native applications

MSAL.NET 3.0-preview now available

March 21st, 2019
We are excited to announce the release of MSAL.NET 3.0-preview, which has a number of changes that will improve your experiences. Since our release of MSAL.NET 2.0-preview in August, we’ve been receiving great feedback from the community. Since August we’ve released fourteen incremental updates of MSAL.NET, improving both the API and the behavior of the library. You’ve been awesome helping us make MSAL.NET a great authentication library, but you also told us that things could be improved upon.

Breaking Change: Invalidate All Refresh Tokens update in Microsoft Graph Beta

February 28th, 2019
Breaking Change: Invalidate All Refresh Tokens update in Microsoft Graph Beta

New Azure AD Identity Protection APIs now in preview in Microsoft Graph

January 29th, 2019
Today we’re announcing two new ways to get Azure AD Identity Protection data through Microsoft Graph: The newly introduced riskyUsers API and an updated sign-in API with enhanced risk information.