Chapter 8. Azure Active Directory application model

It’s time to take a closer look at how Azure AD represents applications and their relationships to other apps, users, and organizations.

You got a brief taste of the Azure AD application model in Chapter 3, “Introducing Azure Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services.” Later on you experienced firsthand a couple of ways to provision apps and use their protocol coordinates in authentication flows. Here I will go much deeper into the constructs used by Azure AD to represent apps, the mechanisms used to provision apps beyond one’s own organization, and the consent framework, which is the backbone of pretty much all of this. I’ll also touch on roles, groups, and other features that ...

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