Microsoft is extending Azure Active Directory with two new authentication services for developers writing apps and services. AD B2C and AD B2B are in public preview now.

It facilitates centralized management of employee access to AWS services. Header-Based Authentication GA: The Azure AD App Proxy service now has " native support for header-based authentication." ...

If you have multiple apps, you can enable single sign-on for them all,” said Swaroop Krishnamurthy, a Microsoft Azure Active Directory senior program manager, in a July 27 announcement.

Azure AD B2C is aimed at businesses “that want to offer consumers secure access to their apps, by allowing consumers to reuse their existing social accounts or creating new app-local ones.” ...