Using the Entra ID Agentic ID sampleUsing the Entra ID Agentic ID sample The repo is here. “This repository contains samples demonstrating how to use Agent Identities in Microsoft Entra ID with .NET. Agent Identities enable AI agents … Aug 28 26August 28, 2026Article at Medium
Integrating Entra External ID (EEID) with a third-party MFA provider, e.g. AuthsignalIntegrating Entra External ID (EEID) with a third-party MFA provider, e.g. Authsignal Back in the day, I wrote a post about integrating Authsignal with Azure AD B2C. Authsignal is a drop-in user … Aug 16 26August 16, 2026Article at Medium
Using OIDC federation via native auth in Entra External ID (EEID)Using OIDC federation via native auth in Entra External ID (EEID) See my earlier posts on this topic here and here. So far, we have looked at EEID native auth. with built-in Identity providers, e.g … Aug 05 26August 05, 2026Article at Medium
Using social federation via native auth in Entra External ID (EEID)Using social federation via native auth in Entra External ID (EEID) The docs are here. Initially, this had me puzzled. I couldn’t find any reference to social federation in the native auth … Aug 01 26August 01, 2026Article at Medium
Analysing Azure AD B2C custom policies to aid with migration to Entra External ID (EEID)Analysing Azure AD B2C custom policies to aid with migration to Entra External ID (EEID) The docs are here. “The Migration Policy Analyzer is available directly in your Azure AD B2C tenant. It … Jul 16 26July 16, 2026Article at Medium
Using “Entra Local” with the MSAL librariesUsing “Entra Local” with the MSAL libraries The repo is here. Entra Local is “A local, MSAL-compatible emulator of Microsoft Entra ID, for application developers. Entra Local exposes the same … Jul 08 26July 08, 2026Article at Medium
Using the High Scale Compatibility (HSC) mode in Entra External ID (EEID) for enabling Azure AD B2C…Using the High Scale Compatibility (HSC) mode in Entra External ID (EEID) for enabling Azure AD B2C migration The docs are here and here. A picture is worth a thousand words: or a later one: Both B2C … May 21 26May 21, 2026Article at Medium
On Entra External ID (EEID) federation with Entra IDOn Entra External ID (EEID) federation with Entra ID Questions around this particular federation are among the most popular on Q&A. I was asked how to allow a customer to use their existing Entra ID … Apr 08 26April 08, 2026Article at Medium
Connecting Entra External ID (EEID) to Entra ID as an external provider via OIDCConnecting Entra External ID (EEID) to Entra ID as an external provider via OIDC Note: This is not a documented feature and may be changed or removed. Use at your own risk. A very common use case is … Mar 24 26March 24, 2026Article at Medium
Some notes on migrating from Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID (EEID) (Part 3)Some notes on migrating from Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID (EEID) (Part 3) I have written some posts on this — Part 1 and Part 2, and I have posted several articles on what I call the hybrid … Oct 15 25October 15, 2025Article at Medium
Validating the ID and Access JWT signature in Entra External IDI was trying to figure out how to validate the JWT signature, not realising the rabbit hole I was about to enter. This long thread provides an example of checking the access token signature (or… Apr 06 25April 06, 2025Article at Medium
Connecting Entra External ID to Azure AD B2C as an external provider via OIDCAs per the documentation, you can use the custom policies from the B2C starter pack and then add an extra claim to the SUSI custom policy: In B2C, configure an app. registration, note the client ID… Jan 26 25January 26, 2025Article at Medium
Connecting Entra External ID to Kinde as an external provider via OIDCOn the Entra External ID side (as per the docs.), I created a user flow and added Kinde as an Identity provider: If you encounter any errors here, refer to this post, where I document the common… Dec 28 24December 28, 2024Article at Medium
Connecting Azure AD B2C to Kinde via OIDCA client asked me about Kinde and whether it could be federated with B2C. I couldn’t find any relevant documentation, hence this post. You can read more about Kinde here. This is not intended to be a deep dive into Kinde, but it follows the usual… Sep 24 24September 24, 2024Article at Medium
Federation vs sign-up vs guest in Azure AD B2CI’ve answered a few questions lately about this over on stackoverflow. Guest accounts B2C does not have a concept of a guest account, and you cannot invite users (in terms of sending an email invite). The invite in the portal is only for creating… Jun 14 24June 14, 2024Article at Medium
Connecting Azure AD B2C as an SP to Entra ID via SAMLI’ve written several “Connecting” posts over the years describing how to connect one IDP to another. To explore the entire ‘Connecting’ series, simply follow my Authory link and enter “connecting” in the search box. I’ve never written up this… Apr 29 24April 29, 2024Article at Medium
Where do I go from Identityserver4?I’ve been talking to several people recently who are using Identityserver4 but who now want to replace it, as it was only maintained with security updates until November 2022. They were using IdentityServer4 because it provided authentication and… Feb 29 24February 29, 2024Article at Medium
Displaying the access token when federating with Azure AD B2CThere’s a good article here, but it just has snippets that have confused some people, so I thought I would do a write-up with a complete custom policy. As usual, the gist is here. The policy is really simple: Do the federationDisplay the claims After… Apr 04 23April 04, 2023Article at Medium
ChatGPT, stackoverflow and Azure Identitystackoverflow recently posted that they would not accept any answer generated by ChatGPT. So I decided to find out how good ChatGPT was. Question 1 Why does the AD FS OpenID Connect userinfo endpoint return only “sub” Answer The AD FS OpenID Connect… Dec 23 22December 23, 2022Article at Medium
Tips and tricks for working with custom policies in Azure AD B2CI’ve been doing a lot of work with custom policies lately and came across a number of things that might help other custom policy developers so I thought it worth while to note them. This article will be updated as I come across other tips and tricks.… Nov 11 21November 11, 2021Article at Medium
