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“Identity is the new control plane”

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  • Searching for user attributes using Azure AD B2C custom policies

    Searching for user attributes using Azure AD B2C custom policies

    This is a question that comes up a lot on stackoverflow.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jul 28
    Linking a federated login against an existing Azure AD B2C local account

    Linking a federated login against an existing Azure AD B2C local account

    This post was inspired by this stackoverflow question.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jun 22
    Fixing one of the Azure AD B2C samples that blocks a disabled federated user.

    Fixing one of the Azure AD B2C samples that blocks a disabled federated user.

    This was inspired by a stackoverflow question.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jun 20
    Getting an access token in Azure AD B2C

    Getting an access token in Azure AD B2C

    There’s a good write-up here.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jun 15
    Searching for Identities in Azure AD B2C using the Graph API

    Searching for Identities in Azure AD B2C using the Graph API

    I discussed Identities here.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jun 13
    Using identities and linking them in Azure AD B2C

    Using identities and linking them in Azure AD B2C

    There’s a good description of identities in Azure AD B2C here.
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    Rory Braybrook
    May 25
    Using a QR code with Azure AD B2C

    Using a QR code with Azure AD B2C

    There’s a custom policy sample for TOTP here.
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    Rory Braybrook
    May 17
    Using nested JSON in a REST API call with Azure AD B2C

    Using nested JSON in a REST API call with Azure AD B2C

    There are two good references for this: here and here.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Apr 12
    API HTTP server errors with Azure AD B2C

    API HTTP server errors with Azure AD B2C

    Have a read of this post first.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Mar 23
    Issues with an Azure AD B2C self-asserted page calling a ValidationTechnicalProfile

    Issues with an Azure AD B2C self-asserted page calling a ValidationTechnicalProfile

    I’ve had a number of issues with a self-asserted page calling a validation TP.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Mar 22
    Mocking Azure AD B2C REST API calls

    Mocking Azure AD B2C REST API calls

    There are a number of mocks out there but I’m currently using Beeceptor.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Mar 9
    Using the authenticator OTP extension in your browser for Azure AD B2C

    Using the authenticator OTP extension in your browser for Azure AD B2C

    If you do work for lots of customers like I do, your Authenticator app. gets clogged up with heaps of one time password (OTP) codes.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Feb 16
    Formatting an Azure AD B2C custom policy file

    Formatting an Azure AD B2C custom policy file

    There are a number of policies in the B2C samples and elsewhere that are just one long piece of XML.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Feb 16
    Revoking tokens in Azure AD B2C

    Revoking tokens in Azure AD B2C

    This is a question I get a lot.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jan 31
    Mapping user claims from an external IDP to Azure AD B2C

    Mapping user claims from an external IDP to Azure AD B2C

    In this case, we will use Azure AD as our external IDP and there’s a really good article here on how to do this.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Jan 24
    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-It’s a wrap

    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-It’s a wrap

    I have organised the series as a list inside Medium so you can see the rest of the series.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Dec 30, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-REST API

    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-REST API

    I have organised the series as a list inside Medium so you can see the rest of the series.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Nov 13, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-Error messages

    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-Error messages

    I have organised the series as a list inside Medium so you can see the rest of the series.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Nov 6, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-Localisation

    Upskilling on Azure AD B2C-Localisation

    I have organised the series as a list inside Medium so you can see the rest of the series.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Nov 2, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Claims transformations

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Claims transformations

    Claims transformations are essentially a set of utilities that you can run on claims e.g. copy one claim to another. There are various…
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    Rory Braybrook
    Nov 1, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Debugging

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Debugging

    This is an essential skill if you want to figure out why the custom policy throws exceptions.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Oct 31, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Adding a new page to the journey

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Adding a new page to the journey

    Sometimes you want to extend a user journey by adding a new page e.g. to capture some extra information or to call an API or to get a user…
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    Rory Braybrook
    Oct 31, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Sign Up

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Sign Up

    If you look at the login page, you see a sign up link.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Oct 31, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Changing the user journey

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Changing the user journey

    Let’s try and change the user journey.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Oct 31, 2021
    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Inheritance

    Upskilling on Azure B2C custom policies — Inheritance

    Take a look at the MFA starter pack.
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    Rory Braybrook
    Oct 31, 2021
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