You are developing an app and see one of the following CORS related errors in the console logs… Notice it starts with “https://login.microsoftonline.com“, you might have a Azure B2C scenario, so in that case it might start with “https://youdomain.b2clogin.com/…“ It is outside of scope for this article If the error is not generated by Azure AD/Entra ID, and the error looks something like this… Access to XMLHttpRequest at ‘https://app.contoso.com/…‘ We…
Read MoreHow to bundle consent
You have a custom client and a custom API. There is an application registration in Azure AD for each of these apps, one for the custom client, and one for the custom API. You want your users to be able to bundle the consent for these apps. You might see one of the following errors… Step 1: Configure knownClientApplications for the API app registration First, you will need to add…
Read MoreUsing MSAL for Python to perform interactive sign in from a local script
This blog shows how to use MSAL for Python to perform an interactive sign in to Azure AD from running a local python script. The sample also demonstrates how to enable MSAL logging along with how to capture Python SSL web traffic using Fiddler Classic App Registration: You will need to have an Azure AD App Registration with “http://localhost” reply URL configured in the ‘Mobile and desktop applications’ platform The…
Read MoreAdd Azure AD roles claim support in WebAssembly Authentication
You are developing a WebAssembly authentication app and trying to implement Roles based access control. You are getting a similar error like… The WebAssembly Authentication stack appears to cast the roles claim into a single string. We need this User Factory to modify its behavior so that each role has its own unique value. Create the Custom User Factory First, create a custom User Factory (CustomUserFactory.cs)… Add the roles mapping…
Read MoreUse logging to troubleshoot Azure AD protected Web API Authentication or Authorization errors
The sample web API application in this blog uses .Net 6 Framework and Microsoft.Identity.Web nuget package to Azure AD protect the Web API. I use Serilog framework for logging the debug output both to the console window and to the local file. This sample assumes you already have a web API application registered in Azure AD. If you are not familiar with how to do that refer to my previous…
Read MoreUsing Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to manage user consented permissions
The oAuth2PermissionGrant object keeps a record of user consented permissions (Delegated Permissions) in a tenant. There is one OAuth2PermissionGrant object (identified by Consent ID) for each combination of client application, resource application, and user. The sample PowerShell script in this post will perform the following tasks: Remove all MS Graph Delegated permissions (if any) for the user Perform user consent for an initial set of MS Graph permission Update the…
Read MoreTroubleshooting 403 Authorization error when calling Microsoft Graph Security API
You may get the following 403 error when using Microsoft Graph Security API to call various end points (https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/alert, https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/security/secoreScores, etc…) “Auth token does not contain valid permissions or user does not have valid roles” Root Cause The above error can occur if the access token is missing the following requirement: The token does not have the required Microsoft Graph permission for the https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0 (or beta)/security/xxx entity endpoint being used…
Read MoreHow to Solve Failed Authentication After Publishing App to Google Play Store
Issue Description You successfully implemented Azure AD Authentication in your Android app with the Microsoft Authentication Library. The application built and executed perfectly and passed all QA testing with flying colors. And then you published the application on Google Play. And authentication doesn’t work after installing the app. If you exposed authentication error messages to the user, or had them sent to your team, then you might see an error…
Read MoreHow to use Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell to update a registered Device’s Extension Attribute
Below is a sample PowerShell script showing how to update a registered device’s extension attribute. The sample uses extensionAttriubte3. You can easily swap this out to a different one. Refer to the Update Device documentation for more info. Note: The above device update operation requires the signed in user to be in either the Intune Administrator role or Global Administrator role.
Read MoreHow to enable MSAL for Java (MSAL4J) logging in a Spring Boot application
In this blog, I’ll show how to enable MSAL4J logging using the logback framework in a spring boot web application. I’ll use our Azure AD B2C web sample here. The complete code for this blog is on github. Refer to the MSAL for Java logging documentation for more info. There are 3 main things you need to do for logging to work 1) Include the logback package in the pom.xml…
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