After a ~one-week hiatus, I am back to cover the new features you can find in ADAL .NET. Today I am going to write about Multi-Resource Refresh Tokens. As I am not a great typist, I am going to abbreviate that in “MRRT”; that does not mean that it’s the official acronym, what…

About one year ago I wrote a post about how to provision a Windows Azure AD tenant as an identity provider in an ACS namespace. Lots of things changed in a year! Since then, we spoke more at length about the relationship between AAD and ACS. If you didn’t read that post, please…

A token cache has been one of the top requests from the development community since I have been in the business of securing remote resources. It goes back to the first days of the Web Service Enhancements; it got even more pressing with WCF, where having token instances buried in channels often led…

Now that the cat’s out of the bag, we can finally play with it time & energy permitting, in the next days (weeks?) I’ll be covering some aspects of using ADAL .NET to help you to get the most from AD in your applications. In the announcement post I introduced AcquireToken, the key…

After more than one year, three developer previews and a ton of feedback from customers and partners (that would be you! Thank you!!!) today we are finally announcing the general availability of the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) for .NET v1.0! You can download it directly from the NuGet gallery or get it…

As I am sure you guys already saw, today we released the RC of Visual Studio 2013. Getting closer! This release contains some improvements to the organizational accounts support we (==Active Directory and ASP.NET teams) collaborated on. Here there’s an unofficial (and likely incomplete) list of the main news in that area. Yes,…

If I didn’t make that abundantly clear, let me restate it: this is my personal blog, running on my own domain, hence I feel free to write whatever on it. That said: I know that many of you come here for identity-related news, hence I have been trying to limit the off topic…

Today we are releasing a new developer preview of our Windows Azure Authentication Library (AAL) Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL). You can find the NuGet package here. This refresh introduces many new features which we believe will boost your productivity even further! Below there’s a list of the most salient news. New Assembly…

Last week I wrote a post about how to use Katana and Windows Azure AD to secure an MVC4 Web API, and showed how to use AAL to build a Windows Store client in just few lines of code.This week I’d like to show you how you can apply the exact same approach…