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February 2020 - Developer Support

Sprint Zero Considered Harmful!

February 21, 2020 Feb 21, 2020 02/21/20
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Successfully delivering valuable functionality in the first sprint or three can be difficult, and for some, simply impossible. But the lessons learned from the attempt are invaluable! Taking an early hit, failing in the short term is unimportant if it improves the chance of success in the long run.

Using B2C to support multi-tenant SaaS apps

February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20
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AAD multi-tenancy is ideal for medium-to-large enterprises who own and manage their own identity infrastructure. This sample is for small enterprises, usually without their own identity infrastructure. It provides support for an application that needs to group it's users into discrete groups, each representing an application tenant.

The Soul of Innovation

February 16, 2020 Feb 16, 2020 02/16/20
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What's the soul of innovation? It is energy. It is knowledge. It is having a purpose. It is a DevOps culture. A better question, however, is "who is the soul of innovation in your organization?"

Unseen secrets – using KeyVault to protect OAuth2 token requests

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20
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This sample implements an Azure Function App, which uses Azure KeyVault to sign OAuth2 client assertions used to obtain JWT tokens from Azure AD. The private key used to sign the client assertion and thus authenticate the function to Azure AD is generated in the KeyVault and never leaves that service (it is not exportable).