Azure AD vs Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity

edson edge 1 Reputation point
2021-11-28T06:10:44.377+00:00

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

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  1. JamesTran-MSFT 36,911 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2021-11-29T19:04:29.53+00:00

    @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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  2. Clément BETACORNE 2,496 Reputation points
    2021-11-29T13:10:03.59+00:00

    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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