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Learning Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Azure A comprehensive guide to cloud application development using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173373
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Geoff Webber Cross Geoff Webber Cross
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure 3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure 4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database 5. Building Azure MVC Websites 6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging 7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration 8. Building Worker Roles 9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration 10. Web API and Client Integration 11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services 12. Preparing an Azure System for Production Index

Implementing Azure AD group authorization


We talked about implementing AD single sign-on authentication to our sales administrator website, but because we're going to use the Azure Bakery AD across all the business domains, we need to add groups so that we have better control over users in the different business units. Azure AD doesn't currently allow addition of new roles or custom roles; there are a number of built-in administrator roles; however, we have full control over groups, so we can use them for authorization.

Unfortunately, authorization isn't as simple as just using the Authorize attribute with a role, as you would with ASP.NET roles; we need to query the Azure AD Graph API to check whether a user is a member of the group. We'll add a sales group to the Azure Bakery AD, and then implement a custom AuthorizeAttribute to query the Azure AD Graph API using the Azure AD Graph client.

We're going to use the Azure AD PowerShell module to modify the AD application service principal later...

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