Integrate your app with Azure AD

Most applications implement ways to authenticate and authorize clients on their platforms. Currently, for the internal applications, we are using the Microsoft Identity platform to standardize this configuration.

The Microsoft identity platform helps you build applications your users and customers can sign in to using their Microsoft identities or social accounts, and provide authorized access to your own APIs or Microsoft APIs like Microsoft Graph

References: Microsoft identity platform overview - Microsoft identity platform

Microsoft identity platform documentation - Microsoft identity platform

So, the first step to starting this configuration, we need to have the app registration in Azure.

Azure App registrations are an easy and powerful way to configure authentication and authorization workflows for a variety of different client types.

Reference: Understanding Azure App Registrations - Petri IT Knowledgebase

App Registration

Registering your application establishes a trusting relationship between your app and the Microsoft identity platform. The trust is unidirectional: your app trusts the Microsoft identity platform, and not the other way around.

References: Quickstart: Register an app in the Microsoft identity platform - Microsoft identity platform

OAuth 2.0

OAuth2 - Authentication with Azure AD