I'm writing an app that authenticates with Azure B2C.
For each user that I want to authenticate, do I need to add them as a guest user in my B2C portal?
Or is there a setting that will allow my app to authenticate anyone, without having to add them as a guest user in the portal?
Adding them as guests won't allow them to authenticate.
Please see the Overview of user accounts in Azure Active Directory B2C.
Consumer account can be used for B2C authentication. But Guest account is different from Consumer account.
You can sign up external users to B2C to enable them to log in. This is exactly what B2C should do.
If you don't want to sign them up to B2C as the local account, you can Add an identity provider to your Azure Active Directory B2C tenant.
Select the corresponding idp, for example, if your external user is AAD user, you need to Set up sign-in for a specific Azure Active Directory organization; if your external user is Google account, you should Set up sign-up and sign-in with a Google account.
After you configure this, there will be additional sign-in button for those idps. You can sign in your external user directly without sign-up.
Just to amplify #AllenWu:
If you create a guest user on B2C, you are creating an admin. user of that portal.
You are not creating a user.
B2C can handle millions of customers so you don't want any help desk involvement.
So B2C has user self-service registration, self-service password reset etc.
Once they have done that, the user can sign in.
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We have an existing Azure subscription where we run our processing infrastructure. We are setting up a new app to run in the same space, but with a Azure Active Directory B2C. We have the setup working and can create new customer users that can sign in.
We have been unable to determine how to have our own users in the existing company subscription sign in to the new app (powered by the AD B2C) with the same user/email/password.
We think the answer lies somewhere between single sign on and proxy user principal names?
We should also point out that when setting up the AD B2C, an administrator user was set up for the person that set it up. Their account has an issuer of ExternalAzureAD and their user principal name is pretty much their email as a suffix on the active directory domain. Although this user is "linked" (?) to the original user in our original AD, it has a different password, etc. So also not quite what we are looking for. Ideally this user would sign into the B2C with their actual email and password (the same one used in the non B2C original AD).
I tried to reproduce the same in my environment like below:
To allow the users to login with Azure AD credentials, make sure to register the Azure AD B2C application by selecting Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant)
To sign-in to the Azure AD B2C application, try using below authorize and token endpoints accordingly:
Note that, organizations endpoint will allow tenant-level login.
I created an Azure AD user like below:
When I tried to login to the Azure AD B2C Application through Azure AD user credentials, I am able to login successfully.
And the decoded access token contains Azure AD user information like below:
I'm developing system where any user can login through Microsoft Azure SSO.
I have done following
Create B2C tenant (Initially tried B2B)
Create enterprise application
Set "AzureADandPersonalMicrosoftAccount" for "signInAudience"
Setup SSO with SAML using "https://simplesamlphp.org/"
Now everything is working fine for my account. But if I trying with other personal user (which I haven't added as guest user in my tenant), then it returns error
User account 'user#domain.com' from identity provider 'live.com' does not exist in tenant 'xxxx'
and cannot access the application in that tenant.
The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first.
Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account.
I want any personal Microsoft user can login through SSO (without adding it as guest user in tenant).
Thanks in advance!
I tried to reproduce the same in my environment and got the below results:
Please note that, if you are creating Enterprise Application in Azure AD b2c Tenant it will be authenticated via Azure Active Directory only not Azure AD b2c.
When I tried to login through Personal Account, I got the same error as below:
As Enterprise Applications authenticate via Azure AD, it is not
possible to authenticate users with personal Microsoft accounts
without adding them as Guest Users.
The only approach is that you add them as Guest users and login to SAML SSO without invitation.
Go to Azure Portal -> External Identities -> External collaboration settings -> Enable guest self-service sign up via user flows
On the left blade, Click on User flows -> New User Flow,
Once the user flow gets created successfully, click on the user flow, select applications and add your application like below:
And try signing to your application with Microsoft Personal Account.
I'm trying to use Azure B2C to authenticate my web app.
I've set it up as multi-tenant - but when someone tries to log in from their work account (johnsmith#anothercompany.com) then the login shows this error:
AADSTS50020: User account 'johnsmith#anothercompany.com' from identity provider 'https://sts.windows.net/xxxx/' does not exist in tenant 'MyTenant' and cannot access the application 'yyy'(My Tool) in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account.
... if I add johnsmith#anothercompany.com as a guest user in my B2C Tenant, then this works - John can log in.
Is there a way to enable my application to not require me to add "guest accounts", and just authenticate against any AAD tenant? (leaving authorization up to my app)
You should configure multi-tenant based on this document: Set up sign-in for multi-tenant Azure Active Directory using custom policies in Azure Active Directory B2C
You can set multiple AAD as identity providers by following this part.
<Item Key="ValidTokenIssuerPrefixes">https://login.microsoftonline.com/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,https://login.microsoftonline.com/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111</Item>
This allows you directly to sign in with the account of tenant 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 and 11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111.
I have a requirement where we want the users to use their social accounts to login into our application (i.e. get an ID Token) through Azure B2C. I configured the Identity Provider and create a user flow for Sign in only. We don't want Users to Sign Up because that through Invitation only. When I use the "Invite User" to the live.com account and the user accepts the invitation and tries to login into the application, I get the below error.
AADB2C99002 User does not exist. Please sign up before you can sign in.
But the user is existing as a Guest User.
When I allow Sign up and the user actually does the Sign-up and then login in, it works.
Questions:
Why isn't the Guest User allowed to access the application? What needs to be done for the same to work?
If it's not possible, I don't want the user to be a "member" to avoid maintaining their credentials. I want the users to use their social accounts only.
As I don't have the requirement of self sign-up and the only invitation-based, how do I achieve my requirement?
Thanks,
Neel
Please see the Overview of user accounts in Azure Active Directory B2C.
Guest account - A guest account can only be a Microsoft account or an Azure Active Directory user that can be used to access applications
or manage tenants.
Consumer account - A consumer account is used by a user of the applications you've registered with Azure AD B2C. Consumer accounts
can be created by:
The user going through a sign-up user flow in an Azure AD B2C application
Using Microsoft Graph API
Using the Azure portal
Guest account is specifically distinguished from Consumer account. So Guest user can't sign into B2C application directly.
Your three questions are actually the same question: How to log in a social account without managing its credentials?
Please refer to Add an identity provider to your Azure Active Directory B2C tenant.
In order to let live.com account sign in, you need to Set up sign-in with a Microsoft account using Azure Active Directory B2C. Choose the policy type (User flow or Custom policy) you want to find the corresponding steps.
If you need your customers from other social idps such as Facebook, Google and so on, you can find the corresponding article on the left.
Can an invited guest user in Azure AD B2C signin using this Azure AD B2C and access a registered application?
What is the password in this case?
Invited guests are for admin purposes i.e. administer the B2C tenant.
Typically they would be e.g. in another Azure tenant and hence would use the password in that tenant.
Only local users i.e. users created via B2C SUSI policies can access applications.