Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

• Register an application.
• Configure Local Development (this post)
• Assigning a Role

Using Environment Variable

Your setup may vary depending on the IDE you are using, Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, etc. I’m going to show you how to set up your Environment variables to use the DefaultAzureCredentials. For this, you will need the Application (Client) ID, Directory (Tenant) ID, and Client Secret (password) obtained from registering your application with the Azure portal. If you need to register an application, check out the post Register an application.

Windows

• Open up your environment variables.
• Enter the following environment variables.

Name	Corresponding Value	Value
AZURE_CLIENT_ID	The Azure application/client id	6c04f5c5-97f7-486d-bbb2-eeeeeeeeee
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET	The client secret/password	QPxyBvw3.UE8Bw6AJAt63pWx~BB40deded
AZURE_TENANT_ID	The directory/tenant id	bee716cf-fa94-4610-b72e-5df4bf5a9999

NOTE These are not real values!

NOTE Depending on your IDE, Terminal, etc, you may need to restart it after updating these values.

Mac

The procedure may vary depending on your environment/shell. For ZSH/bash, add the following your profile.

export AZURE_CLIENT_ID=6c04f5c5-97f7-486d-bbb2-eeeeeeeeee
export AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=QPxyBvw3.UE8Bw6AJAt63pWx~BB40deded
export AZURE_TENANT_ID=bee716cf-fa94-4610-b72e-5df4bf5a9999

Next Steps

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Resources

• Microsoft identity platform documentation
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