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Authentication options for custom application when accessing data from O365

April 21, 2017 Apr 21, 2017 04/21/17
Developer Support
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Anant Dimri explains authentication options available to application developers who wish to interact with data in O365. A developer writing applications that interact with SharePoint (SP) data (Lists/Events/Documents, etc.) will be faced with several options to setup authentication...

OWIN and WS-Federation with CA Siteminder

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Pam Lahoud
Check out this blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon for information on how to integrate ASP.NET applications with CA Siteminder. A customer was having a problem integrating an ASP.NET application with CA Siteminder v12.52. Firstly, there was a problem with using SAML2.0 token formats. To get around that, we reconfigured SM to...

Multi-tenant WebAPI – simple admin consent

January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17
Pam Lahoud
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon shares his application authentication experience in order to help you create your own Multi-tenant WebAPI applications. The VS.NET 2015 wizard for adding authentication to ASP.NET WebAPI projects does not support using the multi-tenant option. Here are some notes on how to implement ...

Single SignOn is easy, Single SignOut is not

August 5, 2016 Aug 5, 2016 08/5/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon talks about problems with single SignOut. Single Sign In relies on the token issuer holding on to a cookie, which tells it about the user identity after the first signin. The issuer can then respond to a request for token in whatever protocol it came in (WSFed, SAML...

Using Client Certificate Authentication for Web API Hosted in Azure

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais  gives us a step-by-step overview of how to add client certificate Authentication for Web Api Hosted in Azure. During recent customer engagement there was a discussion around client certificate [a.k.a tls mutual] authentication and how to use it with asp.net web api ...

Web Test Plug-in for Authentication

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Pam Lahoud
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo gives us a step-by-step overview of how to add Authentication into your Web Performance and Load Test with Visual Studio. Web and Load testing are an essential part of application life cycle management. Within Visual Studio, we provide a great template to do web ...

Passive is good!

April 8, 2016 Apr 8, 2016 04/8/16
Pam Lahoud
Here’s a quick read from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon’s blog.  In it, Marius gives some great reasons to leverage passive authentication protocols in your applications rather than writing your own code to handle credentials. Some time back I wrote about avoiding handling of credentials (creation/maintenance/...