moving the Yeoman office SSO client secret

Question

Hello, I am developing an outlook add-in using the Yeoman Office generator (Office Add-in Task Pane project supporting single sign-on).

All documentation on using this program says to run "npm run configure-sso" after Yeoman has finished and it builds the AAD instance for you.

My problem is "npm run configure-sso" saves the client secret in Microsoft's Credential Manager (on the PC), but I want to host my add-in on Azure. Is there a way to move the client secret from Credential Manager into an Azure instance, or into an environment variable in the add-in?

Answer 1

Hello @Adam Steven ,

Thanks for reaching out.

This is still not supported by the office-addin-sso default package. You have to remove that default package and then add the code yourself to handle SSO so that you can deploy to Azure. Our product team have a plan to document this in August, so hopefully will have guidance around this soon.

Here are some sample JavaScript to deploy to Azure app service.

Reference:

https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs-pr/issues/2279#issuecomment-733153415
https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js-docs-pr/issues/2344#issuecomment-823642553

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Siva