Azure AD vs Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity

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Azure AD vs Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity

edson edge 1

What is the difference between Azure AD and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity?

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JamesTran-MSFT 36,911 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@edson edge
Thank you for your post!

Adding onto @Clément BETACORNE 's answer, Azure AD is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources in:

External resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications.
Internal resources, such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, along with any cloud apps developed by your own organization. For more information about creating a tenant for your organization, see Quickstart: Create a new tenant in Azure Active Directory.

Additional Links:
What is Azure Active Directory?
Get started guide for Azure developers
Microsoft identity platform documentation

I hope this helps!

If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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JamesTran-MSFT 36,911 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-11-30T18:15:19.1+00:00

@edson edge
I just wanted to check in and see if you had any other questions or if you were able to resolve this issue?

If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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edson edge 1 Reputation point

2021-12-01T05:51:03.373+00:00

Thanks... Well the problem I am having is that when I try to deploy my API to azure (in VS 2019) it says I have an Identity dependency, and when I click on it and try to resolve it, then the fly wheel just keeps on going, never loading up any options for a tenant or anything. Visual Studio gives me no clue about why this is happening, and having read just about anything I can find on the web, I still can't figure out what to do.

The load wheel just keeps on turning, and the green cross button is not responsive.

I tried moving my whole API into a project that I could deploy (with Identity tables on its db) to azure before.. but after I moved my API (controllers, Models, etc) to the other project I still got the same problem... The other project didn't have this identity dependency even though It was using the Identity package (the tables and classes at least.)

My API uses JWT tokens, while the other one didn't... which might cause the the dependency?

If you could help it would be much appriciated, I've spent days trying to get this to work.

Best Regards.
edson edge 1 Reputation point

2021-12-01T08:00:11.613+00:00

Update...

The API now works, when I deploy-it -- without resolving this .Identity dependency.

So that is good news... I'm just wondering if it will come back to hunt me later?

P.s, the reason I wasn't to keen on using AD, is because all of the material I have found about it assumes that your API is working with a browser client interface... My client is the Oculus Quest VR app where I register/sign in In the game... so it didn't seem to fit my purposes... I just want to use the identity tables to store my clients, and JWT tokens to authenticate and authorize them.

Best Regards.

Answer 2

Hello,

Based on my research Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity is a namespace in Identity on ASP.NET which will help you provide authentication to your application.
You can use it to allow your user authenticate with an identity in Azure AD but also Facebook, Twitter and Google for example in a scenario like Azure B2C
Azure AD on the other hand is the identity and access management solution of Microsoft which will help you authenticate and give access to application that have a connector with it.

To clarify a little bit Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity will be the element you will find in an application to interact with Azure AD which is a repository where you will find your identities

Best Regards,

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