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Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development

By : Sjoukje Zaal
Book Image

Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development

By: Sjoukje Zaal

Overview of this book

Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development is your one-stop shop for learning how to develop secure applications using modern authentication techniques with Microsoft Azure AD. Whether you’re working with single-tenant, multi-tenant, or line-of-business applications, this book contains everything you need to secure them. The book wastes no time in diving into the practicalities of Azure AD. Right from the start, you’ll be setting up tenants, adding users, and registering your first application in Azure AD. The balance between grasping and applying theory is maintained as you move from the intermediate to the advanced: from the basics of OAuth to getting your hands dirty with building applications and registering them in Azure AD. Want to pin down the Microsoft Graph, Azure AD B2C, or authentication protocol best practices? We’ve got you covered. The full range of Azure AD functionality from a developer perspective is here for you to explore with confidence. By the end of this secure app development book, you’ll have developed the skill set that so many organizations are clamoring for. Security is mission-critical, and after reading this book, you will be too.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with the Microsoft Identity Platform
5
Part 2: Authentication and Protocols
9
Part 3: Azure AD B2C

Registering an application using PowerShell and the CLI

In the previous sections, we registered and configured the application manually inside the Azure portal; however, the Azure portal is not the only way to register applications in Azure AD. You can also use PowerShell or the CLI for this. With PowerShell and the CLI, you can register the application programmatically. You can easily register multiple applications this way, and you are able to use these scripts in your continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps, for instance.

In the next demonstration, we are going to register an application using PowerShell.

Registering an application using PowerShell

In this demonstration, we are going to register an application using PowerShell. To register an application, we are going to use Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Terminal.

Tip

Instead of connecting via Windows Terminal, you can also use Cloud Shell directly from the Azure portal...