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Microsoft Partner Center DotNet Samples Secure App Model KeyVault Integration — Here is how it works
I recently had to work with the so-called Microsoft Partner Center Secure App Model with KeyVault integration, so I went through the GitHub sample provided and downloaded the same. As it was a completely new thing for me, I had to go through many documentation provided by Microsoft, for example, this documentation says about the Authentication, and that’s exactly what I wanted to try. Sometimes following the document will not work, and I had to spend hours fixing the issues. That is the reason why I planned to write this post. I hope it will be helpful.
How does authentication work?
Before we go and set up our application it is important that you should understand how the authentication mechanism works here.
There are two kinds of authentication in the Partner Center.
- App-only, which will just be using the AD app we create.
- App + User, that will require both app and the user context.
Microsoft had created a new authentication model when we create App + User, which is the Secure application Model. This uses…
