Programming Microsoft Office 365: Covers Microsoft Graph, Office 365 applications, SharePoint Add-ins, Office 365 Groups, and more

Chapter 4. Azure Active Directory and security

This chapter explains the architecture and the capabilities of Microsoft Azure Active Directory. You will learn how the authentication and authorization engine of the Microsoft Graph API works and how to provision custom applications and services that consume the Microsoft Graph API securely.

Introducing Azure Active Directory

To understand how the Microsoft Graph API works, you need to figure out the security architecture of the provided services. All the services available through the Microsoft Graph API share a common underlying security infrastructure, which is based on Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) that uses OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 protocols for authentication and authorization. ...