This blog walks through how to set up MSAL.JS to authenticate directly to ADFS 2019 Server using Authorization Code Grant flow to get an Access Token and then call a Web API with that Access Token. We will go over the following steps to get this the samples working: App Registrations for both the Single Page Application (SPA) client app and the web API app Enable Cross-origin Request Sharing (CORS)…
Read MoreReceiving error AADSTS7500514: A supported type of SAML response was not found when authenticating to Azure AD with a federated account
Customers can get the following error when authenticating to Azure Active Directory with a federated account using MSAL (or now deprecated ADAL) Authentication library. { error: “invalid_request”, error_description: “AADSTS7500514: A supported type of SAML response was not found. The supported response types are ‘Response’ (in XML namespace ‘urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol’) or ‘Assertion’ (in XML namespace ‘urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion’). …. error_uri: “https://login.microsoftonline.com/error?code=7500514” } The error is typically seen in the following environment: A federated account…
Read MoreAzure Active Directory: How to get the signed in users groups when there is a groups overage claim in an Access token.
Azure AD has a maximum number of groups that can be returned in an access token when you have selected to include the groups claim for your access token. This post will show you how to reproduce the scenario and then how to get the users groups using Microsoft Graph when a groups overage claim is present in the token instead of actual groups. For a JWT token, Azure has…
Read MoreHow to perform logging for both MSAL.Net and Microsoft Graph SDK
Microsoft Graph SDK has the ability to log out complete HTTP Requests and Reponses as documented here. The way this logging mechanism works is by implementing a custom HttpClient Message handler to intercept every HTTP Request and Response between the client application and the Microsoft Graph Service. Besides hooking into GraphServiceClient’s processing pipeline to do request and response tracing, one can also configure proxy info. See Customize the Microsoft Graph…
Read MoreScript errors running MSAL.Net in XBAP application
You may encounter script errors with the background text saying cookies are disabled when running MSAL code snippet similar to the following in a XAML Browser Application (XBAP) from Internet Explorer when performing Azure AD login Root Cause XBAP Applications, although housed in Internet Explorer, runs in its own process space: PresentationHost.exe, which is a very tightly-controlled security container. XBAP Application uses the webBrowser control to host the Azure AD…
Read MoreHow to use an access token to connect to an Azure SQL Database
In Azure SQL, an access token can be used to authenticate a user or service principal. In this blog post, I will show you what is required for both and give some methods for acquiring the access token based on the scenario to set the access token parameter in the connection object. Requirements: You have an Azure tenant and an Azure SQL database already configured and basic understanding of SSMS…
Read MoreUpdate Asp.Net or Asp.Net Core app session to last longer than Azure AD tokens
Azure AD tokens (ID tokens, access tokens, and SAML tokens) by default last one hour. Asp.Net and Asp.Net Core Middleware sets their authentication ticket to the expiration of these tokens by default. If you do not want your web application to kick the user out redirecting them to Azure AD to sign-in again, you can customize the Middleware authentication ticket. This can also help resolve AJAX issues (getting CORS error…
Read MoreUsing MSAL in a VB.Net Winforms application
All of our MSAL samples are for either Web, mobile client or console applications in c#. This blog post will show how you can also use MSAL in vb.net in a Winforms desktop application. When creating a winforms application, the thing to remember is that code in your form will run under the UI thread, which, for the most part is ok. However, when MSAL prompts for credentials, it will…
Read MoreAADSTS50000: There was an error issuing a token or an issue with our sign-in service
This error can occur during Azure AD authentication process or during any token acquisition flow using the token endpoint. There are multiple causes for this error to happen. Below are a few scenarios that can lead to the error . Root Cause 1: the user password is either expired, invalid, or out of sync This can happen more predominantly in a hybrid environment. The authenticated federated account’s password may be…
Read MoreUsing OpenID Connect OWIN middleware to validate an Azure AD JWT token signed with a symmetric key
Azure AD by default uses a certificate to sign an OAuth2 JWT token using an asymmetric algorithm (RS256). Alternatively a JWT token can be signed with a “shared” secret using a symmetric algorithm (HS256). Asymmetric signing algorithm is always more secure in preventing the token to be tampered with compared to a symmetric algorithm since the private key is always kept at the Identity Provider (IDP) and the token consumer…
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