Developing Applications with Azure Active Directory: Principles of Authentication and Authorization for Architects and Developers

© Manas Mayank and Mohit Garg 2019

M. Mayank, M. GargDeveloping Applications with Azure Active Directoryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5040-2_6

6. Active Directory Custom Data Extensions

Manas Mayank¹  and Mohit Garg¹

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Hyderabad, India

 

In previous chapters, we discussed various user-based and application-based authentication scenarios for different web applications and native applications. This chapter focuses on custom data extensions.

Custom Data Extensions

By default, Azure AD provides some predefined properties for resources such as the user, group, organization, and so forth. These predefined properties include name, description, ID, phone number, and so forth. But, these properties may not be enough for some business needs, and you may ...