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Published inFeb 2019
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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Microsoft identity platform


Microsoft provides an identity platform with two endpoints called V1.0 and V2.0 with two sets of client libraries to work with these endpoints. The following libraries are used: Azure AD Authentication Library (ADAL) SDK and the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). In the Azure AD portal, we will find how to include applications built with ADAL or MSAL over the app registrations (preview), as shown in the following screenshot:

Microsoft identity platform overview

The following list describes the main use cases of the two endpoints:

  • The V1.0 endpoint allows only work and school accounts to sign in
  • The V2.0 endpoint allows work and school accounts from Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts (MSA) to sign in
  • The v2.0 endpoint does not support SAML or WS-Federation—only OIDC and OAuth 2.0
  • The v2.0 endpoint doesn't support the SAML assertion grant
  • Both endpoints accept sign-ins from guest users for single-tenant or multi-tenant applications

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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