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The Microsoft identity platform (v2.0) endpoint supports authentication for different kinds of modern application architectures. All of the architectures are based on the industry-standard protocols OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Using the Microsoft identity platform authentication libraries, applications authenticate identities and acquire tokens to access protected APIs.
This article describes authentication flows and the application scenarios they're used in:
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Tokens can be acquired from several types of applications, including:
Tokens can also be acquired from apps running on devices that don't have a browser or are running on IoT.
Applications can be categorized as in the following list:
Authentication scenarios involve two activities:
Most authentication scenarios acquire tokens on behalf of signed-in users.
However, there are also daemon-app scenarios, in which applications acquire tokens on behalf of themselves with no user.
The security tokens can be acquired from multiple types of applications. These applications tend to be separated into three categories:
Single-page applications: Also known as SPAs, these apps are web apps in which tokens are acquired from a JavaScript or TypeScript app running in the browser. Many modern apps have a single-page application front end that is primarily written in JavaScript. The application often uses a framework like Angular, React, or Vue. MSAL.js is the only Microsoft authentication library that supports single-page applications.
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Public client applications: These applications always sign in users:
These apps are represented by the MSAL PublicClientApplication class. For more information, see Public client and confidential client applications.
Confidential client applications:
These types of apps use the ConfidentialClientApplication class. For more information, see Public client and confidential client applications.
The Microsoft identity platform endpoint supports authentication for different app architectures:
Applications use the different authentication flows to sign in users and get tokens to call protected APIs.
Many modern web apps are built as client-side single-page applications. These applications using JavaScript or a single-page application framework like Angular, Vue.js, and React.js. These applications run in a web browser.
Their authentication characteristics differ from traditional server-side web apps. By using the Microsoft identity platform, single-page applications can sign in users and get tokens to access back-end services or web APIs.
For more information, see Single-page applications.
To protect a web app that is signing in a user:
If you develop in .NET, you use ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core with the ASP.NET Open ID Connect middleware. Protecting a resource involves validating the security token, which is done by the IdentityModel extensions for .NET library and not MSAL libraries.
If you develop in Node.js, you use Passport.js.
For more information, see Web app that signs in users.
To call a web API from a web app on behalf of a user, use the MSAL ConfidentialClientApplication class. You use the Authorization code flow and store the acquired tokens in the token cache. When needed, MSAL refreshes tokens and the controller silently acquires tokens from the cache.
For more information, see A web app calling web APIs.
For a desktop app to call a web API that signs in users, use the interactive token-acquisition methods of the MSAL PublicClientApplication class. With these interactive methods, you can control the sign-in UI experience. MSAL uses a web browser for this interaction.
There's another possibility for Windows-hosted applications on computers joined either to a Windows domain or by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). These applications can silently acquire a token by using Integrated Windows Authentication.
Applications running on a device without a browser can still call an API on behalf of a user. To authenticate, the user must sign in on another device that has a web browser. This scenario requires that you use the Device Code Flow.
Though we don't recommend you use it, the Username/Password flow is available in public client applications. This flow is still needed in some scenarios like DevOps.
But using this flow constrains your applications. For instance, applications can't sign in a user who needs to use multi-factor authentication or Conditional Access. Your applications also don't benefit from single sign-on.
Authentication with the Username/Password flow goes against the principles of modern authentication and is provided only for legacy reasons.
In desktop apps, if you want the token cache to persist, customize the Token Cache serialization. By implementing dual token cache serialization, you can use backward-compatible and forward-compatible token caches. These tokens support previous generations of authentication libraries. Specific libraries include Azure AD Authentication Library for .NET (ADAL.NET) version 3 and version 4.
For more information, see Desktop app that calls web APIs.
Similar to a desktop app, a mobile app calls the interactive token-acquisition methods of the MSAL PublicClientApplication class to acquire a token for calling a web API.
MSAL iOS and MSAL Android use the system web browser by default. However, you can direct them to use the embedded Web View instead. There are specificities that depend on the mobile platform: Universal Windows Platform (UWP), iOS, or Android.
Some scenarios, like those that involve Conditional Access related to a device ID or a device enrollment, require a broker to be installed on the device. Examples of brokers are Microsoft Company Portal on Android and Microsoft Authenticator on Android and iOS. MSAL can now interact with brokers. For more information, see Leveraging brokers on Android and iOS.
For more information, see Mobile app that calls web APIs.
Note
Your mobile app that uses MSAL.iOS, MSAL.Android, or MSAL.NET on Xamarin can have app protection policies applied to it. For instance, the policies might prevent a user from copying protected text. The mobile app is managed by Intune and recognized by Intune as a managed app. For more information, see Microsoft Intune App SDK overview.
The Intune App SDK is separate from MSAL libraries and interacts with Azure AD on its own.
You can use the Microsoft identity platform endpoint to secure web services like your app's RESTful web API. A protected web API is called by using an access token. The token secures the API's data and to authenticate incoming requests. The caller of a web API appends an access token in the authorization header of an HTTP request.
If you want to protect your ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core Web API, you need to validate the access token. For this validation, you use the ASP.NET JWT middleware. The validation is done by the IdentityModel extensions for .NET library and not by MSAL.NET.
For more information, see Protected web API.
For your ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core protected Web API to call another web API on behalf of a user, your app needs to acquire a token for the downstream web API. To acquire a token, your app calls the ConfidentialClientApplication class's AcquireTokenOnBehalfOf method. Such calls are also named service-to-services calls. The web APIs that call other web APIs need to provide custom cache serialization.
For more information, see Web API that calls web APIs.
Apps that have long-running processes or that operate without user interaction also need a way to access secure web APIs. Such an app can authenticate and get tokens by using the app's identity. The app proves its identity by using a client secret or certificate.
You can write such daemon apps that acquire a token for the calling app by using the MSAL ConfidentialClientApplication class's client credentials acquisition methods. These methods require that the calling app has registered a secret with Azure AD. The app then shares the secret with the called daemon. Examples of such secrets include application passwords, certificate assertion, or client assertion.
For more information, see Daemon application that calls web APIs.
Scenarios that involve acquiring tokens also map to OAuth 2.0 authentication flows. For more information, see OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols on the Microsoft identity platform.
Scenario | Detailed scenario walk-through | OAuth 2.0 flow and grant | Audience |
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Single-page app | Implicit | Work or school accounts, personal accounts, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) | |
A web app that signs in users | Authorization Code | Work or school accounts, personal accounts, and Azure AD B2C | |
A web app that calls web APIs | Authorization Code | Work or school accounts, personal accounts, and Azure AD B2C | |
A desktop app that calls web APIs | Interactive by using Authorization Code with PKCE | Work or school accounts, personal accounts, and Azure AD B2C | |
Integrated Windows Auth | Work or school accounts | ||
Resource Owner Password | Work or school accounts and Azure AD B2C | ||
Device code | Work or school accounts | ||
A mobile app that calls web APIs | Interactive by using Authorization Code with PKCE | Work or school accounts, personal accounts, and Azure AD B2C | |
Resource Owner Password | Work or school accounts and Azure AD B2C | ||
A daemon app that calls web APIs | Client credentials | App-only permissions with no user and used only in Azure AD organizations | |
A web API that calls web APIs | On Behalf Of | Work or school accounts and personal accounts |
Microsoft Authentication libraries support multiple platforms:
You can also use various languages to build your applications.
Note
Some application types aren't available on every platform.
In the Windows column of the following table, each time .NET Core is mentioned, .NET Framework is also possible. The latter is omitted to avoid cluttering the table.
Scenario | Windows | Linux | Mac | iOS | Android |
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Single-page app | MSAL.js | MSAL.js | MSAL.js | MSAL.js | MSAL.js |
Web App that signs in users | ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | ||
Web App that calls web APIs | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java Flask + MSAL Python | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java Flask + MSAL Python | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java Flask + MSAL Python | ||
Desktop app that calls web APIs | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python MSAL.objc | ||
Mobile app that calls web APIs | MSAL.NET MSAL.NET | MSAL.objc | MSAL.Android | ||
Daemon app | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | ||
Web API that calls web APIs | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python | ASP.NET Core + MSAL.NET MSAL Java MSAL Python |
For more information, see Microsoft-supported libraries by OS / language.
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