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Using ADAL with Angular2

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17
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In this post,  Senior Application Development Manager, Vishal Saroopchand, walks us through an example of ADAL with Angular2. The primary goal of this post is to give a high level walkthrough on how to use ADAL (Azure AD Authentication Library) with Angular2. ADAL ships with support for Angular1; however, there are no clear guidance ...

Developer’s Guide to Automated Install of ADFS On Windows Server 2016 (TP4)

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Pam Lahoud
In a recent article on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais outlines the steps required to set up a developer environment instance of Active Directory Federation Services on the current Technical Preview (TP4) of Windows Server 2016.  Here’s a snippet of Razi’s article, be sure to follow the link to his blog for ...

Changing user password in Azure AD using GraphAPI

March 3, 2016 Mar 3, 2016 03/3/16
Pam Lahoud
Recently, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon posted this article on his blog regarding changing passwords in Azure AD that may be helpful to those of you facing this specific scenario in your applications: You use Azure AD for some applications (e.g. Office365), but... ...one of your applications does NOT use Azure AD (yet). It has ...

Using Azure AD to authorize Service Bus requests

February 18, 2015 Feb 18, 2015 02/18/15
Pam Lahoud
Most Service Bus examples use symmetric keys directly in applications needing access to the Service Bus, usually as part of the connection string. That approach does not work so well with widely distributed applications, e.g. desktop or mobile apps.  In the latest post from his blog, Marius Rochon gives an example of how to use Azure ...

Should an application handle user credentials?

January 20, 2015 Jan 20, 2015 01/20/15
Pam Lahoud
With development of standard authentication protocols like WS-federation, SAML and OAuth, there should be very few situations where a web application has to implement its own storage and logic for handling user credentials. This blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon enumerates the benefits of using out-of-the-box authentication ...