B2C - Developer Support

To B2B or to B2C?

Developer Support March 25, 2021 Mar 25, 2021 03/25/21

While one uses B to signify it’s focus on business partnerships, while the other uses C for consumers, at the end of the day either can be used to accomplish roughly the same access. My intent here is to focus on what I see as the fundamental difference; one that is most likely to drive the appropriate choice of technology.

Setting up for Azure B2C development

Developer Support January 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021 01/11/21

The following describes some techniques, tools and approaches I found useful when developing applications with Azure AD B2C. The first part deals with setting up a newly created B2C tenant using the Azure portal only. The second part deals with developing custom journeys (Identity Experience Framework) xml policies.

Claims encryption for B2C tokens

Developer Support November 16, 2020 Nov 16, 2020 11/16/20

Once you sign in and consent, you should see TokenEncryption API in your Enterprise Apps. You will then be able to register your own client applications (recipients of encrypted tokens), set their API Permission to access the Token Encryption API with decrypt application permission, and use client credentials to request a token.

Using OAuth2 OBO with Azure AD B2C

Developer Support July 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020 07/23/20

This sample uses a custom web service (B2BOBOWeb) to provide a token endpoint, which handles the Extension Grant requests and communicates with B2C to respond with a valid response (access token). It uses a specific B2C tenant configured with custom journeys to handle this communication.

B2C Identity Experience Framework – getting started

Developer Support April 11, 2020 Apr 11, 2020 04/11/20

This sample configures an existing B2C tenant for use with Identity Experience Framework custom policies. It performs all tasks defined in the getting started document except creating a Facebook signing key required by some starter policies.

Using B2C to support multi-tenant SaaS apps

Developer Support February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20

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.

PowerShell to upload IEF policies to multiple B2C tenants

Developer Support February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

Premier Dev Consultant Marius Rochon shares an example of a PowerShell script to upload a set of B2C IEF policies to one or more B2C tenants.

Cross (micro) services authentication with Azure B2C

Developer Support January 22, 2019 Jan 22, 2019 01/22/19

Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities. The microservice architecture enables the continuous delivery/deployment of large, complex applications. It also enables an organization to evolve its technology stack.

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