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Providing Admin Consent to Azure Registered Application

It has been a while since I drafted anything. So, all these times, I was busy learning new things, which includes Dynamics 365, Graph API, MS Teams, some of the Azure services and much more.  Basically, this entire tenure was full of ups and downs where some things went very smooth and some things took many hours to get sorted. But now, I am back with so much on my plate and of course my next few posts would be majorly on troubleshooting part and how-tos. May be, there would be similar solutions which you may find on the internet, but I would still love to add it on my own blogger with my own findings for my own future references. With all this, let us get started with our first troubleshooting tip. Background The requirement was about adding a new Task in Planner , which is part of Office 365 . Now for any adding Task , we have to traverse through Groups , then Bucket and then inside any defined Bucket we can create a Task .  In order to perform all these, au

Confused with term Active Directory

Is On-premise Active Directory (Windows Active Directory) same as Azure Active Directory? In continuation to my previous blog post, this was one of another question asked to me.       Well, although these both are active directories but there are few differences though. Let’s have a look at those: Location - The most basic difference is, Windows AD is on-premise whereas Azure AD is cloud based. Initial moto – As Azure AD is a cloud based, some web service support is associated, unlike unadorned AD Protocols Used – Both the active directories use different protocols. As Azure AD uses SAML and oAuth whereas unadorned AD relies on NTLM and Kerberos for authentication and LDAP to query/modify Platform support – When it comes to provide support on other platforms apart from Windows, it is nightmare with Windows AD and requires more time and effort. But the same thing can be executed very smoothly with Azure AD as it just needs a registration with any one of your Microsoft

What is this Business Store ?

Setting context Those who are using Windows 8 or later are already aware about apps available in Windows store. Those apps can be can be installed on Phone, Surface , PC, HoLoLens and other devices having Windows operation system. Few of them are free and remaining ones are paid. One needs an internet connection to get these apps on devices. Now question is, is just by having an internet connection brings an app to our devices? What if you are in some enterprise network? In that case, in spite of having an internet connection, you may not be able to download an app from Windows Store. And the very well-known reason for this is organization’s FIREWALL L . As you are protected by your enterprise firewall, you may not be able to download the required app from Windows Store. Now question is how to get the required app. To get rid of this shortcoming, Microsoft came up with a new store called Business Store for Windows 10. Those who all have attended Build 2015 may already aware of it