We use azure b2c for a spa application.
We have allowed internal user (via azure ad) to connect to the app, that work fine but it's seem to create shadow account.
Is there a way to avoid shaddow account
The shadow accounts are required if you're writing any extension data to the B2C object. If your application can rely solely on claims passed from the federated AAD then you should be able to remove the step in the user journey that references writeUsingAlternativeSecurityId.
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I want my application to be able to use an external user pool from my customers Azure AD, instead of them having to maually create every user in my application, when they already have them in Azure AD.
Initially, I though of using only OIDC for this as I can just create the user in my application upon the first login. But OIDC does not allow me to logout and deactivate the user in my application when they are deleted in Azure AD. This is an important requirement for my application.
To solve this, I think I could combine OIDC and SCIM:
Azure AD provisions the users to my application through SCIM endpoints. When deactivated, Azure notifies my application through the SCIM endpoints and I can delete their session and deactivate them in my application.
Login is handled with OIDC. When I have a valid OIDC token I create a session in my app. This way I don't have to manage passwords or multi factor authentication in my app.
Does it make sense to use SCIM and OIDC together?
Yes, it makes sense to use SCIM and OIDC together in the way that you describe.
It also has other advantages to "pre-provision" with SCIM: for example, when users want to address accounts other users that have not logged in yet. Adding such a user to a group would not work with "just-in-time account provisioning" since the account would not exist (yet).
I'm in a pickle, lacking the experiences that would provide me with guidance in my project and am seeking pointers from those for whom have Azure AD, SSO and Federation experience.
I am building an employee self service system and using Azure AD for identity management. I would like the user to be able to sign in using their employee ID # and password, not their email address; there should also be an option for the user to register for online access using their employee ID # and other personal information - their Azure Identity already having been established by humane resources.
The sign in flow would take the user to the Microsoft login page which would in turn detect that the user needs to sign in via a custom login page and redirect them there. Once they are signed in, my server would transmit their identity to Azure AD and grant them access based on the Azure Application permissions.
I'm simply really confused about how to start setting this up, if it's even possible. I'm aware of XSS but isn't Federation and SSO with SAML2 secure?
Do I need to use a federation application as a middle-man such as Ping Identity?
Thanks for any help!
Using e.g. Ping as an IDP generally won't help because Azure AD is already an IDP.
Microsoft Azure AD login pages can't be accessed by API and can't be customised to the extent you want.
And you can only sign-in with an email address because it's designed for domain-joined corporate customers.
You can do a lot of what you require with Azure AD B2C and custom policies. That will allow you to sign-in with a user name (= employee id) and you can create workflows.
You could then federate Azure AD and Azure AD B2C.
Your other option is to use an IDP that does allow authentication via an API e.g. Auth0.
Then you could have a custom login page that authenticates as appropriate.
Using Ping ID and other similar products is the fastest way to utilize SSO.
I am using Aure AD B2C to connect a .Net core application with Azure AD Enterprise application for authentication using SAML protocol. I am using custom policies to enable SAML.
I have used custom policies starter pack given in Microsoft Docs, and authentication is working properly with given name, surname, name, IDP as claims and I want so additional claims that my application is using.
I need DOB and MemberID as claims for my application and there was no option to add custom claims to the active directory where my enterprise application is.
I have another IDP setup in Okta and luckily I could add custom claims like DOB and MemberID to user profile in Okta but still I am unable to get those claims after authentication.
This is an Azure AD question.
The problem is that DoB etc. is not part of the schema.
If you are using Azure AD Connect and these attributes are in AD, you can use directory extensions to synch them up.
You can synch them up to extensionAttributes that are in the SAML drop-down.
Then add them as outputs in B2C.
If not, you can add extension attributes to Azure AD and use a custom policy REST API that calls Graph API (either directly or via Azure function) to get them.
Also refer this.
I am working on an ASP.Net MVC application which will handle two types of users
External Users (Need to authenticate using Azure B2C with username as login instead of email as login)
Internal Users (which already exist in Corporate Azure AD)
What is the right way of implementing it?
One option is to run two separate instances of the application configured against each IDP. Keep each type of user stick to one app instance.
I tried to register AD and AD B2C in one app by registering two OpenIdConnect services but having problems when the user tries to access a resource without first logging into the application. Without knowing the type of the user I cannot specify AuthenticationSchema in the Authorize tag.
I am sure people have done this before so if you someone who knows how to do it, then please guide me..
I'm currently trying to implement a multi-tenant Azure AD application that will use Microsoft Graph API's to monitor and analyze Office 365 "metadata" for members of the tenant domain. For example, the application might monitor One Drive user space over time. The architecture of the application will include an AngularJS SPA client along with a web application back-end. The idea is that the web application allows for both local registration (e.g. traditional sign up using an email address and password) in addition to Azure AD authentication. In the case of local registration, the user might be able to associate an Azure AD tenancy with the local account in the future, for example.
I'm struggling to understand how various authentication mechanisms should work. For example, I think that there should be two levels of authentication in the case of Azure AD: one authentication for the users of the client SPA, and another authentication used by the back-end for making continuous calls to the Microsoft API's, requesting refresh tokens, etc.
How might this architecture be implemented using the various Azure AD authentication scenarios Microsoft has already provided examples for?
If my initial inclination that I will have two applications registered with Azure AD (for example, the SPA registered as a native application, say, and the web application registered by itself), how will users allow access to both of them, and what would this workflow look like? In addition, what would the flow of user requests look like? The SPA would make a request to the back-end using its Azure AD token, but what will the back-end do to receive its authentication token and make calls to the Microsoft API's?
How might I best incorporate Azure AD authentication along with local registration into my application?
Generally speaking, you can associate your each user to his entity in Azure AD tenant in your backend server / database. As every user in Azure AD has several unique properties in the entity object. You can use the user's email or objectId as mentioned at Claims in Azure AD Security Tokens as the external column in your user table.
When your user authenticate your site via ADAL.JS, you can grab the access token in your backend server via the Authentication header. You can use the access token to request for the resources protected by Azure AD. And the access token is a JWT token, which you can decode directly to get the user basic claims as we mentioned before. You can retrieve the claim which you stored in your user table and match the special user registered in your server for requesting the resource protected by your self.