{"id":1973,"date":"2019-05-06T17:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2019-05-06T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:39:23","slug":"azure-active-directory-achieves-openid-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Azure Active Directory Achieves OpenID Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"plain\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"OpenID Certified logo\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/OpenID_Certified.png\"><\/span>I&#8217;m delighted to report that Azure Active Directory (AAD) has achieved <a href=\"https:\/\/openid.net\/certification\/\">OpenID Certification<\/a>.  This is true both of the AAD V1 identity provider, which enables sign-in with organization identities, and the AAD V2 identity provider, which enables sign-in with both personal and organizational identities.  See the <a href=\"https:\/\/openid.net\/certification\/#OPs\">certification listings<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/identity\/blogs\/the-microsoft-identity-platform-is-openid-connect-certified\/\">Microsoft identity platform announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While AAD has supported OpenID Connect for years, the push to achieve OpenID Certification closed a number of gaps in AAD&#8217;s feature set &#8212; mostly notably, adding support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/openid.net\/specs\/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#UserInfo\">UserInfo Endpoint<\/a> to AAD V2.  This work was part of Microsoft&#8217;s commitment to utilizing widely-adopted open identity standards.  Kudos to the AAD engineering team for bringing this important developer-focused work to completion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to report that Azure Active Directory (AAD) has achieved OpenID Certification. This is true both of the AAD V1 identity provider, which enables sign-in with organization identities, and the AAD V2 identity provider, which enables sign-in with both personal and organizational identities. See the certification listings and the Microsoft identity platform announcement. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interoperability","category-openid","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}