Support for Windows Azure Active Directory

[ollejacobsen]

Do you have any plans on supporting the Windows Azure Active Directory login?

[phillip-haydon]

Unfortunately I have very little knowledge of Active Directory, I wouldn't know where to start.

If it is possible to support then I would love to add it, if you're able to help that would be awesome.

[PureKrome]

I also have no tech knowledge about wether it's possible or not.

but if it's oauth 2.0, then 100% :)

do you have any docs you can help us determine if it's possible.

[phillip-haydon]

@PureKrome Active Directory is Microsofts version of LDAP. And Azure Active Directory is a new cloud service which allows you to run AD over your local network and cloud infrastructure.

What I do know is it wont be simple because the code is tightly bound to System.Web so we would need to rewrite the actual authenticating part so it can be used independently. I think fowler did this for JabbR, it may be possible to take hes done and tidy it up into something we can utilise.

In terms of testing and setup etc I donno what to do or how to verify its even working.

[ollejacobsen]

I've have very little knowledge of the Windows Azure Active Directory. The documentation says it will support OAuth 2.0. And with the "sync-your-ad-with-the-cloud" tool this would really be a nice feature (when they support OAuth).

A preview version of support for OAuth 2.0 in Windows Azure Active Directory is introduced in this release. Check back here and for upcoming details. // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn195590.aspx

In terms of testing I think you are able to define users directly on the Azure AD. Meaning that you won't need to really sync it with an existing ad. But this is all based on a session ScottGu held at NDC, and I have no real experience my self.

Edit: There seems to be a more concrete example here; http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aadgraphteam/archive/2013/05/17/using-oauth-2-0-authorization-code-grant-for-delegated-access-of-directory-via-aad-graph.aspx

[phillip-haydon]

Oh ok, I'll take a look, thanks for the information !!!