It’s been a loong time since I recorded a screencast, and I am definitely rusty – but I want to slowly ease back in the game. Here you can find a quick and not-so-polished video tutorial on ADAL. Enjoy!

Today it is my honor and privilege to announce the general availability of ADAL v2 for .NET, Windows Store and Windows Phone apps! If you want to get it, all you need to do is to enter the following from the package manager in VS: Install-Package Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory Let’s talk about what we are…

An alternative title for this post could have been “Why users of my native app are prompted by Azure AD for consent every time they authenticate?”. In brief: for native apps, the consent granted by the user is recorded by Azure Active Directory in the refresh token issued on the first successful authentication….

In short: using ADAL from a Universal App is easy, but not obvious. For what we hear, your experience is that you try to add a reference to the ADAL NuGet in the shared project – and it fails. There are a number of reasons for that. This post will give a bit…

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…