Custom App Integration with Azure AD

Azure AD has a gallery with thousands of pre-integrated applications to make it easy to provide secure authentication and authorization solutions so that customers, partners, and employees can access the applications they need.

For custom applications, developers can use the Microsoft identity platform (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/) to implement authentication and authorization. Applications integrated with the Microsoft identity platform natively take advantage of the same features provided by Azure AD for identity and security. Applications must register with Azure Active Directory (AD) (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-register-app) and are managed just like any other app.

Acme has several Java-based web applications that it wants to allow access to through Azure AD.

With Azure AD, developers can create applications tailored to specific use cases. Here are...