Adding Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 authentication to a Service Fabric Web API (Stateless) service

... is pretty much the same as adding it to a normal Web API 2.0 application:

[Authorize]
public class ValuesController : ApiController
{

        }

Then in your Startup.cs file:

// This code configures Web API. The Startup class is specified as a type

// parameter in the WebApp.Start method.

public static void ConfigureApp(IAppBuilder appBuilder)

{

CodePackageActivationContext activationContext = FabricRuntime.GetActivationContext();

ConfigurationPackage configurationPackageObject = activationContext.GetConfigurationPackageObject("Config");

ConfigurationSection configurationSection = configurationPackageObject.Settings.Sections["ActiveDirectoryServiceConfigSection"];

appBuilder.UseWindowsAzureActiveDirectoryBearerAuthentication(

new WindowsAzureActiveDirectoryBearerAuthenticationOptions

{

Tenant = configurationSection.Parameters["TenantName"].Value,

TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters

{

ValidAudience = configurationSection.Parameters["AppIdUri"].Value

},

Provider = new OAuthBearerAuthenticationProvider

{

OnValidateIdentity = OnValidateUserIdentityAsync

}

});

// Configure Web API for self-host. 

HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration();

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(

name: "DefaultApi",

routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",

defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }

);

appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);

}

The trick here is to ** ENSURE THAT WAAD BEARER AUTHENTICATION GETS REGISTERED BEFORE REGISTERING WEB API!!! **

Setting up continuous Webjobs in Azure

First things first: you need to properly setup your dashboard:

This means that in the 'Application settings' area of the panel for your Web app, you need to go into the 'Connection strings' setting and add blob storage connection strings with the names 'AzureWebJobsDashboard' and 'AzureWebJobsStorage', with a type of 'Custom'.

Second: if you have continuous web jobs associated with a Web app, you need to ensure that the Web app setting 'Always On' is toggled *on*.

Using ADAL in Javascript to enable use of Azure Active Directory from an AngularJS SPA

Check this out, apparently it came out last fall in Azure:

http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2014/10/28/adal-javascript-and-angularjs-deep-dive/

Adding extra files to your MSDeploy web package with MSBuild

I've recently started getting much more in depth with Azure. I've ported some web apps up into Azure, and now I need WebJobs. I've written the jobs, manually uploaded them into my web apps, tested them out and they work great. Now I need to ensure that the WebJobs get automatically deployed with my Web Application.

As it turns out, web jobs are just a sub folder with some naming conventions underneath the App_Data folder in your web application. Unfortunately, getting those files into that folder as part of the packaging process is a couple extra (non-obvious) steps.

Following this article on ASP.NET, I was able to add in the extra files. It took a lot more Googling than I care to admit to in order to find this article. As it turns out, you really need to pick your search terms well.

My website doesn't accept my Active Directory credentials and just keeps prompting me over and over. Or if it's Chrome, just gives me a middle finger straight up.

Recently, I've been having the problem of trying to reach some of the internal applications that my company develops that uses Windows Authentication. Thanks to this article:

http://www.leftycoder.com/windows-authentication-chrome-iis/

... I found out why. I had to remove the option for 'Negotiate' with Windows Authentication. The settings had changed when we moved our applications to a new IIS Web Site. Something to keep in mind.

Implementing delegated authentication from an Azure MVC web app to an Azure Web API web service

Follow the information on this tutorial. Contained within that link, is this tutorial on authenticating a web app with delegated user identity to a web API service.

Authenticating users on an Azure web site (MVC) using Azure Active Directory (AAD)

Follow this guide provided on Github. It provides all of the information you need to enable the simplest form of Azure AD authentication in an MVC app. It can be used as the beginning step to getting a fully authenticated MVC web app / web API stack.

Creating an Intranet MVC 5 application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate Intranet Web API 2 application also using Windows Authentication

Recently I wanted to create an Intranet MVC application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate, pre-existing Intranet Web API 2 web service that also uses Windows Authentication. In order to get the Windows Authentication of the MVC application propagated to authenticate with the Web API 2 web service, I had to do the following:

1) Place the following in both applications' <system.web> sections in their respective configuration files.

        <authentication mode="Windows" />

        <authorization>

            <deny users="?" />

        </authorization>

2) Update the .NET aspnet.config file located at "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Aspnet.config" to change the following settings to the following values:

        <legacyImpersonationPolicy enabled="false"/>

        <alwaysFlowImpersonationPolicy enabled="true"/>

 3) In the code for the MVC app that wants to call the Web API 2 app, do the following:

            WindowsIdentity identity = (WindowsIdentity) this.HttpContext.User.Identity;

            using (identity.Impersonate())

            {

                searchModel.SearchResults = this.webApiService.FindWebApiItems(searchModel.SearchCriteria);

            }

This last bit is necessary to ensure that the currently authenticated user in the MVC app gets correctly propagated to the Web API 2 app. In the service that's mentioned in the code above, you'll also need to do the following for interacting with Web API 2:

4) Use the following to connect to Web API 2:

            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler

            {

                PreAuthenticate = true, 

                UseDefaultCredentials = true, 

                Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials

            };

            using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler))

            {

                string result = client.GetStringAsync(uriBuilder.Uri).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

                IList<MyWebApiModel> webApiModels = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyWebApiModel[]>(result);

                return webApiModels;

            }

You should now have working code to propagate Windows Authentication via services.

As a side note, apparently there's also a way to change the settings so that you don't have to modify the global aspnet.config file, you can do it on a per-AppPool basis. The technique is described here, though I've never tried it myself.