Azure AD support for POS sign-in

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
End users by admins, makers, or analysts	Feb 24, 2020	May 1, 2020

Business value

The Commerce point of sale (POS) application today only supports staff authentication based on our own identity provider. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) support for POS sign-in has been a request from various retailers, with generally two requirements: security and maintainability. Customers with stringent corporate security requirements usually look at Azure AD as a more secure way to handle authentication against the POS. Many customers typically use multiple Microsoft cloud services (Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365), and already have their workers set up in Azure AD. They don’t want to manage them (and their passwords) again in the Dynamics 365 Commerce back office in order to use the Commerce solution. This creates duplicate effort for them that could be easily avoided.

Feature details

This feature will introduce:

• A new configuration parameter in Commerce headquarters (HQ) to specify the desired authentication method for POS sign-in.
• A modified POS sign-in page to leverage Azure AD for user authentication.

See also

Enable Azure Active Directory authentication for POS sign-in (docs)