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To interact with the Microsoft identity platform, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) must be made aware of the application you create. This tutorial shows you how to register an application in a tenant on the Azure portal.
In this tutorial:
Register a web application in a tenant
Record the web application's unique identifiers
Prerequisites
An Azure account with an active subscription.
Create an account for free
.
This Azure account must have permissions to manage applications. Use any of the following roles needed to register the application:
Application administrator
Application developer
Cloud application administrator
Register the application and record identifiers
To complete registration, provide the application a name and specify the supported account types. Once registered, the application
Overview
page will display the identifiers needed in the application source code.
Sign in to the
Azure portal
.
If access to multiple tenants is available, use the
Directories + subscriptions
filter
in the top menu to switch to the tenant in which you want to register the application.
Search for and select
Azure Active Directory
.
Under
Manage
, select
App registrations > New registration
.
Enter a
Name
for the application, such as
NewWebApp1
.
For Supported account types, select
Accounts in this organizational directory only
. For information on different account types, select the
Help me choose
option.
The
Redirect URI (optional)
will be configured at a later stage.
Select
Register
.
The
Supported account types
can be changed by referring to
Modify the accounts supported by an application
.
Next steps
Tutorial: Prepare a web application for authentication
