Tag: Azure
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MSAL: Caching Access Token
Why Cache Access Token with MSAL? Building upon the previous post that performs delegated access authentication with MSAL, suppose your program uses this function to get the access token. In this case, it will always launch the browser to complete the authentication flow and retrieve the access token every time the program runs. While it… Read More…
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MSAL: Launching Specific Browser with Delegated Access Authentication
Why Launch a Specific Browser with MSAL? Building upon the previous post that performs delegated access authentication with MSAL, your institution may sometimes allow you to access Microsoft 365 products only on the approved browsers. By default, MSAL launches the default browser on your machine to obtain the access token interactively. If your institution only… Read More…
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MSAL: Delegated Access Authentication
The Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) supports various programming languages and frameworks to simplify the authentication flow against the Microsoft identity platform, which is a prerequisite to invoke APIs such as Microsoft Graph. In this example, we will write a Python script that performs delegated authentication flow using the user’s credentials. Once authenticated, the script will… Read More…
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Azure: Deploying WAR File to Tomcat
PROBLEM Typically, when using ZipDeploy to push a WAR file (ex: my-app.war) to an Azure instance, we need to:- This zip file will automatically be unzipped under site/wwwroot:- Tomcat detects ROOT.war and will try to unpack the WAR file under ROOT/:- The problem is sometimes Tomcat is unable to fully unpack ROOT.war because some files… Read More…