eriawan/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-webapi-oauth2-useridentity

In the sample, an existing web app with its own way of signing in users adds the ability to call an Azure AD protected web API using OAuth 2.0 access tokens.

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Calling Azure AD protected web APIs in a web app using OAuth 2.0

In the sample, an existing web app with its own way of signing in users adds the ability to call an Azure AD protected web API, in this case the Graph API. This sample uses the OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant with confidential client and the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to obtain access tokens for the web app to call the Graph API with the user's identity.

This sample is useful if you want to add a web API calling ability to an existing application that authenticates Azure AD users using Windows Identity Foundation and WS-Federation. If you want to build a new web application that signs users in using Azure AD as well as calling web APIs protected using Azure AD, check out the WebApp-WebAPI-OpenIDConnect-DotNet sample. OpenIDConnect provides a more efficient way to get access tokens for a user to call a web API, by obtaining an authorization code for the user at the time they sign in. This also means your application can skip having logic for sending OAuth authorization requests and processing OAuth authorization responses.

For more information about how the protocols work in this scenario and other scenarios, see Authentication Scenarios for Azure AD.

Looking for previous versions of this code sample? Check out the tags on the releases GitHub page.

How To Run This Sample

To run this sample you will need:

• Visual Studio 2013
• An Internet connection
• An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. For more information on how to get an Azure AD tenant, please see How to get an Azure AD tenant
• A user account in your Azure AD tenant. This sample will not work with a Microsoft account, so if you signed in to the Azure portal with a Microsoft account and have never created a user account in your directory before, you need to do that now.

Step 1: Clone or download this repository

From your shell or command line:

git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-webapi-oauth2-useridentity.git

Step 2: Register the sample with your Azure Active Directory tenant

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
2. On the top bar, click on your account and under the Directory list, choose the Active Directory tenant where you wish to register your application.
3. Click on More Services in the left hand nav, and choose Azure Active Directory.
4. Click on App registrations and choose Add.
5. Enter a friendly name for the application, for example 'WebApp-WebAPI-OAuth2-UserIdentity-DotNet' and select 'Web Application and/or Web API' as the Application Type. For the sign-on URL, enter the base URL for the sample, which is by default https://localhost:44323. Click on Create to create the application.
6. While still in the Azure portal, choose your application, click on Settings and choose Properties.
7. Find the Application ID value and copy it to the clipboard.
8. For the App ID URI, enter https://<your_tenant_name>/WebApp-WebAPI-OAuth2-UserIdentity-DotNet, replacing <your_tenant_name> with the name of your Azure AD tenant.
9. From the Settings menu, choose Keys and add a key - select a key duration of either 1 year or 2 years. When you save this page, the key value will be displayed, copy and save the value in a safe location - you will need this key later to configure the project in Visual Studio - this key value will not be displayed again, nor retrievable by any other means, so please record it as soon as it is visible from the Azure Portal.

Step 3: Configure the sample to use your Azure AD tenant

1. Open the solution in Visual Studio 2013.
2. Open the web.config file.
3. Find the app key ida:Tenant and replace the value with your AAD tenant name.
4. Find the app key ida:ClientId and replace the value with the Application ID for WebApp-WebAPI-OAuth2-UserIdentity-DotNet from the Azure portal.
5. Find the app key ida:AppKey and replace the value with the key for WebApp-WebAPI-OAuth2-UserIdentity-DotNet from the Azure portal.

Step 4: Run the sample

Clean the solution, rebuild the solution, and run it.

Explore the sample by registering an account in the application, signing in using that account, clicking the Profile link, on the Profile page linking an AAD user's account and seeing their profile information, signing out from the application, and starting again.

How To Deploy This Sample to Azure

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About The Code

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How To Recreate This Sample

1. In Visual Studio 2013, create a new ASP.Net MVC web application called WebApp with Authentication set to Invididual User Accounts.
2. Set SSL Enabled to be True. Note the SSL URL.
3. In the project properties, Web properties, set the Project Url to be the SSL URL.
4. Add the (stable) Active Directory Authentication Library NuGet (Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory), version 1.0.3 (or higher).
5. In the Models folder add a new class called UserProfile.cs. Copy the implementation of UserProfile from this sample into the class.
6. Add a new empty MVC5 controller UserProfileController to the project. Copy the implementation of the controller from the sample. Remember to include the [Authorize] attribute on the class definition.
7. In Views --> UserProfile create a new view, Index.cshtml, and copy the implementation from this sample.
8. In the shared _Layout view, add the Action Link for Profile that is in the sample.
9. Add a new empty MVC5 controller OAuthController to the project. Copy the implemementation of the controller from the sample.
10. Open the AccountController controller, find the LogOff() method, and add this line at the beginning of the method: OAuthController.RemoveAllFromCache();. Also note the comments that are included in the sample file in the LogOff() method.
11. In web.config, in <appSettings>, create keys for ida:ClientId, ida:AppKey, ida:AADInstance, ida:Tenant, ida:GraphResourceId, and ida:GraphUserUrl and set the values accordingly. For the public Azure AD, the value of ida:AADInstance is https://login.microsoftonline.com/{0} the value of ida:GraphResourceId is https://graph.windows.net, and the value of ida:GraphUserUrl is https://graph.windows.net/{0}/me?api-version=2013-11-08.
12. In web.config add this line in the <system.web> section: <sessionState timeout="525600" />. This increases the ASP.Net session state timeout to it's maximum value so that access tokens and refresh tokens cache in session state aren't cleared after the default timeout of 20 minutes.