How to Register an App in Azure Active Directory for Dynamics 365 CE Online?

How to Register an App in Azure Active Directory for Dynamics 365 CE Online?

To register an app in Azure Active Directory, you must follow these steps.

Step 1: Go to https://portal.azure.com/

Step 2: Search for Application Registration

Click the App registration and you will see the following screen.

Step 3: Click New Registration

Step 4: Githe ve application a name and select the supported account type. In my case, I have selected the Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant). It is just for that who can use the application or access this API. 

Step 5: You can skip the Redirect URI option and click the register button

After the registration you can see the details like Application Client ID, Object ID, Tenant ID

Step 6: Now go to the Certificates & Secrets

Step 7: Click on New Client Secret

A dialog box will appear.

Step 8: Give a description of the client’s secret and duration and click add button.

Client secret is created successfully.

You can copy and paste the values to some safe place because they will be hidden after some time.

Step 9: Coming to our next point, go to the API permissions

You will see the following screen

Step 10: Click on Add a permission

Request API Permission dialog box will open

Step 11: Click on Dynamics CRM option

Click on Delegated Permissions

Select user_impersonation and click add permissions button

Step 12: Click on Grant Admin Consent

Click on Yes.

Admin consent confirmation is granted.

Stay tuned very little is left.

Step 13: Go to the Manifest

Step 14: Now we have to update allowPublicClient to true and oauth2AllowImplicitFlow to true.

Save the Manifest

Step 15: Go to Overview

Step 16: Add a redirect URI

It will ask you to add a platform. Click on add platform.

In Configure platform dialog box, click on the web.

Provide URI. For Development, you can provide the URL as http://localhost under Redirect URIs.

Select Access tokens (used for implicit flows) and click configure button.

URI is added

So, this was the final step. Now you have finally configured the App in Azure Active Directory. If you want to read about the benefits of using the Azure AD app then you can read here why we create an app in the Azure Active Directory.