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Use FIDO2 passwordless authentication with Azure AD

This article shows how to implement FIDO2 passwordless authentication with Azure AD for users in an Azure tenant. FIDO2 provides one of the best user authentication methods and is a more secure authentication compared with other account authentication implementations such authenticator apps, SMS, email, password alone or SSI authentication. FIDO2 authentication protects against phishing. To […]

Use calendar, mailbox settings and Teams presence in ASP.NET Core hosted Blazor WASM with Microsoft Graph

This article shows how to use Microsoft Graph with delegated permissions in a Blazor WASM ASP.NET Core hosted application. The application uses Microsoft.Identity.Web and the BFF architecture to authenticate against Azure AD. All security logic is implemented in the trusted backend. Microsoft Graph is used to access mailbox settings, teams presence and a users calendar. […]

Add extra claims to an Azure B2C user flow using API connectors and ASP.NET Core

This post shows how to implement an ASP.NET Core Razor Page application which authenticates using Azure B2C and uses custom claims implemented using the Azure B2C API connector. The claims provider is implemented using an ASP.NET Core API application and the Azure API connector requests the data from this API. The Azure API connector adds […]

Creating Microsoft Teams meetings in ASP.NET Core using Microsoft Graph

This article shows how to create Microsoft Teams online meetings in ASP.NET Core using Microsoft Graph. Azure AD is used to implement the authentication using Microsoft.Identity.Web and the authenticated user can create teams meetings and send emails to all participants or attendees of the meeting. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/TeamsAdminUI History Blogs in this series Setup Azure App […]

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 […]