Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
by Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav
OAuth
OAuth is a modern authentication standard used by many popular web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google. OAuth is an open standard for token-based authorization and authentication on the internet. It provides client applications a secure, delegated access to server resources on behalf of a resource owner. It specifies a process for resource owners to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials. OAuth was first released and used by Twitter in 2007, and the latest version of OAuth is OAuth 2.0.
In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition OData services, JSON-based custom service, and REST metadata service use OAuth 2.0 for authentication. This diagram ...
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