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Securing ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Web APIs with Azure B2C external and Azure AD internal identities
This article shows how to implement an ASP.NET Core Razor page to authenticate against Azure B2C and use Web APIs from a second ASP.NET Core application which are also protected using Azure B2C App registrations. Azure B2C uses the signin, signup user flow and allows identities to authenticate using an Azure AD single tenant. Two […]
Sign-in using multiple clients or tenants in ASP.NET Core and Azure AD
The article shows how an ASP.NET Core application could implement a sign in and a sign out with two different Azure App registrations which could also be implemented using separate identity providers (tenants). The user of the application can decide to authenticate against either one of the Azure AD clients. The clients can also be […]
Securing OAuth Bearer tokens from multiple Identity Providers in an ASP.NET Core API
This article shows how to secure and use different APIs in an ASP.NET Core API which support OAuth access tokens from multiple identity providers. Access tokens from Azure AD and from Auth0 can be be used to access data from the service. Each API only supports a specific token from the specific identity provider. Microsoft.Identity.Web […]
Securing Blazor Web assembly using cookies
The article shows how a Blazor web assembly UI hosted in an ASP.NET Core application can be secured using cookies. Azure AD is used as the identity provider and the Microsoft.Identity.Web Nuget package is used to secure the trusted server rendered application. The API calls are protected using the secure cookie and anti-forgery tokens to […]
Secure Azure AD User File Upload with Azure AD Storage and ASP.NET Core
This post shows how files can be uploaded to Azure blob storage using ASP.NET Core in a secure way using OAuth and Open ID Connect. Azure AD is used to authenticate the users. The uploaded file descriptions are saved to an SQL database using EF Core so that listing or searching files can be implemented […]
Implement app roles authorization with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core
This post shows how to implement Azure AD App roles and applied to users or groups in Azure AD. The roles are used in an ASP.NET Core Razor page application as well as a ASP.NET Core API. The roles from the access token and the id token are used to authorize the identity which is […]
Implement OAUTH Device Code Flow with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core
The post shows how the Device Code flow (RFC 8628) could be implemented in an ASP.NET Core web application which uses Azure AD as an identity provider. An Azure App registration is used to setup the client. This solution would be useful for input constrained devices which have a browser and need to authenticate identities. […]
Protecting legacy APIs with an ASP.NET Core Yarp reverse proxy and Azure AD OAuth
This article shows how a legacy API could be protected using an ASP.NET Core Yarp reverse proxy and Azure AD OAuth. The security is implemented using Azure AD and Microsoft.Identity.Web. Sometimes it is not possible to update an existing or old API within a reasonable price and the financially best way to use it in […]
Azure AD Access Token Lifetime Policy Management in ASP.NET Core
This article shows how the lifespan of access tokens can be set and managed in Azure AD using ASP.NET Core Razor pages with Microsoft Graph API and token lifetime policies. A TokenLifetimePolicy can be created for the whole tenant or used for specific Azure App Registrations. Code: Azure AD Token Management Posts in this series […]
Using multiple APIs in Angular and ASP.NET Core with Azure AD authentication
This article shows how an Angular application could be used to access many APIs in a secure way. An API is created specifically for the Angular UI and the further APIs can only be access from the trusted backend which is under our control. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AzureADAuthRazorUiServiceApiCertificate Posts in this series Implement Azure AD Client credentials […]
