Tag Archives: Identity
Use Azure AD Access Packages to onboard users in an Azure DevOps project
This post looks at onboarding users into an Azure DevOps team or project using Azure AD access packages. The Azure AD access packages are part of the Microsoft Entra Identity Governance and provide a good solution for onboarding internal or external users into your tenant with access to the defined resources. Flow for onboarding Azure […]
Disable Azure AD user account using Microsoft Graph and an application client
This post shows how to enable, disable or remove Azure AD user accounts using Microsoft Graph and a client credentials client. The Microsoft Graph client uses an application scope and application client. This is also possible using a delegated client. If using an application which has no user, an application scope is used to authorize […]
Invite external users to Azure AD using Microsoft Graph and ASP.NET Core
This post shows how to invite new Azure AD external guest users and assign the users to Azure AD groups using an ASP.NET Core APP Connector to import or update existing users from an external IAM and synchronize the users in Azure AD. The authorization can be implemented using Azure AD groups and can be […]
Transforming identity claims in ASP.NET Core and Cache
The article shows how to add extra identity claims to an ASP.NET Core application which authenticates using the Microsoft.Identity.Web client library and Azure AD B2C or Azure AD as the identity provider (IDP). This could easily be switched to OpenID Connect and use any IDP which supports OpenID Connect. The extra claims are added after […]
Getting started with Self Sovereign Identity SSI
The blog is my getting started with Self Sovereign identity. I plan to explore developing solutions using Self Sovereign Identities, the different services and evaluate some of the user cases in the next couple of blogs. Some of the definitions are explained, but mainly it is a list of resources, links for getting started. I’m […]
Require user password verification with ASP.NET Core Identity to access Razor Page
This post shows how an ASP.NET Core application which uses ASP.NET Core Identity to authenticate and authorize users of the application can be used to require user password verification to view specific Razor pages in the application. If the user opens one of the Razor pages which require a password verification to open the page, […]
Using Microsoft Graph API delegated clients in ASP.NET Core
This post shows how Microsoft Graph API can be used in both ASP.NET Core UI web applications and also ASP.NET Core APIs for delegated identity flows. The ASP.NET Core applications are secured using Microsoft.Identity.Web. In the API project, the Graph API client is used in a delegated flow with user access tokens getting an access […]
Implement a Web APP and an ASP.NET Core Secure API using Azure AD which delegates to a second API
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core Web application can authenticate and access a downstream API using user access tokens and delegate to another API in Azure AD also using user access tokens. Microsoft.Identity.Web is used in all three applications to acquire the tokens for the Web API and the access tokens for the two […]
Using Key Vault certificates with Microsoft.Identity.Web and ASP.NET Core applications
This post shows how Azure Key Vault certificates can be used with Microsoft.Identity.Web in an ASP.NET Core application which requires a downstream “access_as_user” API. The Azure AD App Registrations requires a certificate instead of a client secret. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AzureADAuthRazorUiServiceApiCertificate Posts in this series Implement Azure AD Client credentials flow using Client Certificates for service APIs […]
Encrypting texts for an Identity in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages using AES and RSA
The article shows how encrypted texts can be created for specific users in an ASP.NET Core Razor page application. Symmetric encryption is used to encrypt the text or the payload. Asymmetric encryption is used to encrypt the AES key and the IV of the symmetric encryptions. Each ASP.NET Core Identity has an associated X509Certificate2 with […]
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