Since I wrote the post Azure Active Directory Authentication for React I discovered that the library used (react-aad-msal) is being depreciated as Microsoft are now providing their own offical library (@azure/msal-react) for these purposes. There’s good documentation of the msal-react library available on the package page as well as samples Read more…
Usually when I build a website it’s an ASP.NET Core Razor site created from Visual Studio but I’ve recently started to try to get to grips with the React framework (again within Visual Studio). This means I’m having to relearn a few of the things that I’d previously taken for Read more…
I’ve used Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and authorization in a variety of Web Apps for logins, calling external APIs (e.g. Graph API) and authorizing site area access and while authentication is reasonably simple to get working authorization has always been a bit more confusing. This is fair enough as Read more…
I usually access Azure Blob Storage by using a SAS key but I am trying to move everything over to KeyVault and Managed Service Identities (MSI) to improve security and secret management. During this process I kept on receiving the following error. I could connect to the container using my Read more…
I’ve recently started getting to grips with the API Management service in Azure which seems to be a good way of managing access to resources and to document their usage. Part of this is the Developer Portal which acts as a centralized store of knowledge for using your APIs which Read more…
I’ve been working on a web portal that users Azure Active Directory (AAD) for user authentication and for requesting permissions to the Azure Graph API, the code for which is based on this sample project. This uses a library called Microsoft.Identity.Web that assists with acquiring and storing tokens, currently this Read more…