The common endpoint is one of the most powerful development features of AAD – unfortunately, it is also one of the least intuitive ones. In this post I will give you a brief taste of what it does, what it is useful for, and how ADAL surfaces its strange properties. Azure AD Tenant…
I have to say I am pretty surprised by the attention that last week’s OIDC OWIN+WebForms post has garnered. Had I known, I would have posted about it much earlier! In the same spirit, here there’s another quick tutorial addressing a common FAQ: “My company is still on VS2012: can I use the…
One big feature I’ve always missed in Windows Phone is the ability to look up people in the directory when I get mails from unknown colleagues. Sure, the Contacts hub helps you to find out phone, email and even office location – but many important questions remain unanswered. What team is this guy…
All of our official .NET samples that show some web UX are based on MVC. This caused somebody to speculate that the new OWIN components for OpenId Connect and WS-Federation require MVC to function. Nothing farther from the true! You can totally use those to secure your WebForms apps. Here there’s a super…
ADAL v2 RC is here, and is packed with new features! Those are the last planned changes we are doing to the library surface for v2, hence you should expect this to be the harbinger of what you’ll get at GA time. Here there’s a list of the main changes. For some of…
The release candidate of ADAL v2 introduces a new, more straightforward way of leveraging Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA) for your AAD federated tenants in your Windows Store and .NET applications. Its use is very simple. You might have read here that we model direct username/password authentication by holding those credentials in one instance…
The release candidate of ADAL v2 introduces a new cache model, which makes possible to cache tokens in middle tier apps and dramatically simplifies creating custom caches. In this post I’ll give you a brief introduction to the new model. You can see the new cache in action in our updates samples. Limitations…
This might be the most requested feature for ADAL: the ability of authenticating a user by pumping in username/password, without showing any pop up. There are perfectly legitimate scenarios that require that feature; unfortunately there are also many ways in which abusing this feature might backfire. With the RC we just released, we…
We’ve been saying it was coming for almost a year. With this RC preview release, it’s finally happening: ADAL for .NET/Windows Store/Windows Phone is now fully open source! Without getting too dramatic, this truly ushers a new era of transparency and collaboration between our team and you guys – you’ll be able to:…
ADAL for Windows Phone 8.1 is finally here! With the latest update of the ADAL preview on the NuGet gallery we added a new target platform, Windows Store apps for Windows Phone 8.1. This will allow you to get and store Azure AD tokens from your phone app with the same ease you’ve…