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Custom OpenID Connect identity providers for user flows in Azure AD B2C
Use any OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider in the built-in user flows in Azure AD B2C.
Pass through an identity provider's access token in Azure AD B2C
Applications can now get the identity provider's access token passed through as part of the Azure AD B2C token.
Azure AD Application Proxy integration with the Power BI Mobile application
Use Azure AD Application Proxy to access reports in the Power BI Report Server hosted on-premises from the Power BI mobile application
Custom roles for app registration management
Gain fine-grained control over what access your admins have for managing app registrations.
July 2019
Azure AD Application Proxy support for single sign-on to SAML-based applications.
Connect custom or popular SAML-based on-premises line of business apps to Azure AD for single sign-on.
Authentication method usage and insight reporting in Azure AD
Understand the adoption of self-service password reset (SSPR) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in your organization with this Azure AD dashboard.
Azure AD support for FIDO2-based passwordless sign-in
Azure AD users can sign in password-free using a FIDO2 security key.
Azure AD B2B collaboration direct federation with SAML and WS-Fed providers
Seamlessly collaborate with guests or partners whose IT managed identity solution supports the SAML or WS-Fed standards.
May 2019
Identity Secure Score in the Azure AD Portal
Gain visibility and control over your security posture by discovering opportunities that will help to improve security across your organization
Azure AD Conditional Access policy for the combined MFA and password reset security info registration experience
Control the conditions in which sentive security information for multi-factor authentication and self-service password reset can be registered.
Expansion of the password character limit in Azure AD
Passwords for accounts created in Azure AD can now be up to 256 characters including spaces.
Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET
.NET developers can use MSAL.NET to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
Microsoft Authentication Library for Javascript
Developers building a Single Page Javascript App can use MSAL.js to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
Unified application registration experience
Register, configure and manage all your apps in the new application registration blade in the Azure portal.
Azure AD support in GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise customers can synchronize groups of users with Azure AD to leverage existing infrastructure.
Azure Active Directory support in GitHub Enterprise
To support the needs of enterprise customers, GitHub Enterprise customers can now synchronize groups of GitHub users with Azure Active Directory (AAD) and thus enforce a secure workplace identity. AAD synchronization allows GitHub customers to leverage their existing AAD solution for group membership so that their administrators and developers can focus on their application development. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_DevOps" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
GitHub Identity support for Azure
GitHub users now can sign into Microsoft applications, including Azure Portal and Azure DevOps using their GitHub account. This update enables developers to go from repository to deployment with just their GitHub account. The new login system will try to match a user’s GitHub account to an existing Microsoft identity with access to Azure. If the system can’t find one, it creates one for the user that's keyed to their GitHub account, providing a seamless login experience. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_DevOps" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Authentication session management in Azure AD Conditional Access
Create conditional access policies which determine how often users need to provide sign-in credentials and if they need to provide them after closing and reopening browsers.
April 2019
Azure AD entitlement management
Govern employee and partner access requests, approvals, auditing, and reviews for any app integrated with Azure AD.
Group claims in Azure AD tokens
User group membership information can be emitted from SAML and OIDC/OAuth tokens issued by Azure AD so organizations so apps that require this information can be managed and secured from the cloud.
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