Questions tagged [microsoft-account]
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When Building VSCode From Source, How to Enable the Experimental Settings Sync?
VSCode v1.43 has experimental support for settings sync using Microsoft account: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync
The "Turn on Sync..." option exists in Insiders, but not when building VSCode from source.
I found the reason is…

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Workarounds/drawbacks for lack of combined consent in Azure AD + Microsoft Account Applications
The documentation for the Azure AD on-behalf-of flow indicates that combined consent does not work for personal Microsoft accounts. It says that "other strategies present themselves."
It only actually provides one other strategy (using a combined…

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Using Microsoft as an IdP in AWS Cognito
I'm trying to implement social login using Microsoft account in AWS Cognito User Pools.
I have followed the documentation from AWS for Cognito in order to configure the User Pool to allow OpenID Connect authentication:…

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SSO experience between token based and cookie based application
Currently I have two applications with broken sso experience. Below is scenario :
Application 1 is Single Page Application, that uses Azure AD as an authorization end point and OAuth 2.0 implicit authorization grant to secure its web API back end…

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Cannot add a Microsoft account in Azure AD with the new portal
Some customers of ours are using external Microsoft accounts to access AAD services.
Since we're not linked with their domain, and some of them use Gmail account, adding their entire domain to our AAD is hardly possible.
The old portal…

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ADAL Mac returns 300 AD_ERROR_CACHE_MULTIPLE_USERS error
We are using the ADAL Mac library to authenticate. When using this library we get a 300 error (AD_ERROR_CACHE_MULTIPLE_USERS) with the description:
The token cache store for this resource contains more than one user. Please set the 'userId'…

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ASP.NET Core, Microsoft Account Login & AADSTS70001
I'm trying to use the Microsoft Account Login in my application. I tried it some years ago and MSAccount was always difficult to use because of some restrictions (localhost development etc.) - but it seems this is now possible.
I used this…

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Username in WebTokenRequestResult is empty
in a Windows 10 UWP I try use WebAuthenticationCoreManager.RequestTokenAsync to get the result from a login with a Microsoft account.
I get a WebTokenRequestResult with Success. ResponseData[0] contains a WebAccount with an ID - but the UserName is…

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MVC5 + Microsoft Account (Live ID) + IIS = redirect_uri is not valid
I'm throwing together a simple POC for a client that wants to use LiveId (now Microsoft Account or MSA) for users to sign in. I've done this with FaceBook, Google and Twitter and they were all a walk in the park. For whatever reason MSA is a royal…

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Getting user's contacts from Windows Live or Outlook API
I would like to know is there any possibilities to export and get an user's Outlook or Microsoft Account contact list as csv file with his/her authentication using any APIs?
Thanks!

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Live Connect automatic signin without browser windows
I'm creating an desktop application that shall manage my outlook.com account in the background, without me having to type in username and password every time I switch on the PC.
I've been going through all the signin variants for the Microsoft…

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identify user accross WP8 and Win8: ANID2 vs SafeCustomerId
We have a web service that needs to indentify a user accross his devices, wp8, and win8.
On the phone side we have UserExtendedProperties.GetValue("ANID2"), which get's the anonymous microsoft id.
On Windows8 there's…

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What has changed in Microsoft oAuth 2.0 implementation?
I have a web site that has been using Microsoft accounts for authentication for more than three years. It is a Node web app and is using the passport-windowslive package.
Lately, when users return from login.live.com after logging successfully using…

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What is the difference between MicrosoftAccount, AzureAD and OpenIdConnect authentication?
I got absolutely confused when trying to understand the differences between MicrosoftAccount, AzureAD and OpenIDConnect authentications.
I am trying to build a .Net Core MVC app that allows some users to authenticate with local accounts, but some…

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Single-SignOn for multiple apps using MSA (AAD)
I am creating a new android app and I don't want users to again enter the credentials for my app. I want to use the already logged-in MSA account for logging-in to my app also. How can I do that? Does AAD/MSA supports single signOn for multiple apps…

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