Add Microsoft Entra ID authentication (Members)

Learn how to use Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) credentials to login to Umbraco as a member.

This tutorial takes you through configuring Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory/Azure AD) for the member login on your Umbraco CMS website.

Entra ID conflicts with Umbraco ID which is the main authentication method used on all Umbraco Cloud projects.

Due to this, we highly recommend not using Azure AD for backoffice authentication on your Umbraco Cloud projects.

It is still possible to use other External Login Providers like Google Auth and OpenIdConnect, with Umbraco Cloud.

Prerequisites

• A project with a setup for Members.

• Visual Studio, or another Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Step 1: Configure Entra ID

Before your applications can interact with Entra ID, they must be registered with a tenant that you manage. This can be either an Entra ID (Azure AD) tenant or an Entra ID B2C (Azure AD B2C) tenant. For more information on creating an Azure AD B2C tenant, see Microsoft's Tutorial: Quickstart: Use your Azure subscription to create an external tenant.

Follow these steps to register your web application with your Entra tenant and configure it for member sign-in:

1. Follow the instructions in Register an application in Microsoft Entra ID using the Microsoft Entra admin center.

2. On the App Registrations screen, copy the Application (Client) ID value. You will need this in your code later.

3. Click Add a certificate or secret.

Entra Example: App Registration Screen

1. Add a new client secret and copy the generated Value. You will use this in your code as well.

2. Return to the Overview screen and click Add a Redirect URI.

3. Add full URLs for all of your applicable environments (local, dev, live, etc.) with the path /umbraco-b2c-members-signin appended. For example, https://mysite.com/umbraco-b2c-members-signin.

Step 2: Install the NuGet package

You need to install the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.MicrosoftAccount NuGet package. There are two approaches to installing the packages:

1. Use your favorite Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and open up the NuGet Package Manager to search and install the packages.

2. Use the command line to install the package.

Step 3: Implement the Entra ID Authentication

1. Create a new class for custom configuration options: EntraIDB2CMembersExternalLoginProviderOptions.cs.

EntraIDB2CMembersExternalLoginProviderOptions.cs

using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core;
using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Security;

namespace MyApp;

public class EntraIDB2CMembersExternalLoginProviderOptions : IConfigureNamedOptions<MemberExternalLoginProviderOptions>
{
    public const string SchemeName = "ActiveDirectoryB2C";

    public void Configure(string? name, MemberExternalLoginProviderOptions options)
    {
        if (name != Constants.Security.MemberExternalAuthenticationTypePrefix + SchemeName)
        {
            return;
        }

        Configure(options);
    }

    public void Configure(MemberExternalLoginProviderOptions options)
    {

            // The following options are relevant if you
            // want to configure auto-linking on the authentication.

            options.AutoLinkOptions = new MemberExternalSignInAutoLinkOptions(

            // Set to true to enable auto-linking
            autoLinkExternalAccount: true,

            // [OPTIONAL]
            // Default: The culture specified in appsettings.json.
            // Specify the default culture to create the Member as.
            // It can be dynamically assigned in the OnAutoLinking callback.
            defaultCulture: null,

            // [OPTIONAL]
            // Specify the default "IsApproved" status.
            // Must be true for auto-linking.
            defaultIsApproved: true,

            // [OPTIONAL]
            // Default: "Member"
            // Specify the Member Type alias.
            defaultMemberTypeAlias: Constants.Security.DefaultMemberTypeAlias

        )
        {
            // [OPTIONAL] Callbacks
            OnAutoLinking = (autoLinkUser, loginInfo) =>
            {
                // You can customize the Member before it's linked.

				// Update the Member name based on the Microsoft Account name. (optional)
				autoLinkUser.Name = loginInfo.Principal.Identity?.Name;

				// You can modify the Member's groups based on the Claims returned in the external login info.
				
            },
            OnExternalLogin = (user, loginInfo) =>
            {
                // You can also update the Member before it is saved whenever they have
                // logged in with the external provider.
                // For example, re-sync the Member's name based on the Claims returned in the external login info

                // Return a boolean indicating if sign-in should continue or not.
                return true;
            }
        };
    }
}

With autolinking, if a visitor uses Sign in with Microsoft and their email matches a member, that member is signed in. If no matching member exists, a new one is created. By default, it isn’t assigned to any groups.

1. Create a new static extension class called MemberAuthenticationExtensions.cs.

MemberAuthenticationExtensions.cs

namespace MyApp;

public static class MemberAuthenticationExtensions
{
    public static IUmbracoBuilder ConfigureAuthenticationMembers(this IUmbracoBuilder builder)
    {
        builder.Services.ConfigureOptions<EntraIDB2CMembersExternalLoginProviderOptions>();
        builder.AddMemberExternalLogins(logins =>
        {
            logins.AddMemberLogin(
                membersAuthenticationBuilder =>
                {
                    membersAuthenticationBuilder.AddMicrosoftAccount(

                        // The scheme must be set with this method to work for the external login.
                        membersAuthenticationBuilder.SchemeForMembers(EntraIDB2CMembersExternalLoginProviderOptions.SchemeName),
                        options =>
                        {
                            // Callbackpath: Represents the URL to which the browser should be redirected to.
                            // This needs to be unique.
                            // In order to have Umbraco members auto-linked, use "/umbraco-b2c-members-signin"
                            options.CallbackPath = "/umbraco-b2c-members-signin";

                            //Obtained from the ENTRA ID B2C WEB APP
                            options.ClientId = "YOURCLIENTID";
                            //Obtained from the ENTRA ID B2C WEB APP
                            options.ClientSecret = "YOURCLIENTSECRET";

                            // If you are using single-tenant app registration (e.g. for an intranet site), you must specify the Token Endpoint and Authorization Endpoint:
                            //options.TokenEndpoint = $"https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId}/oauth2/v2.0/token";
                            //options.AuthorizationEndpoint = $"https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize";

                            options.SaveTokens = true;
                        });
                });
        });
        return builder;
    }
}

Ensure to replace YOURCLIENTID and YOURCLIENTSECRET in the code with the values from the Entra ID tenant. If Entra ID is configured to use accounts in the organizational directory only (single tenant registration), you must specify the Token and Authorization endpoint. For more information on the differences between single and multi tenant registration, refer to Microsoft's identity platform documentation.

The Client Secret value will expire and must be regenerated in the Entra admin center. Use configurable secret storage to provide the value to your code, rather than hard-coding it.

1. Add the Members authentication configuration in the Program.cs file:

Program.cs

builder.CreateUmbracoBuilder()
    .AddBackOffice()
    .AddWebsite()
    .AddDeliveryApi()
    .AddComposers()
    //Add Members ConfigureAuthentication
    .ConfigureAuthenticationMembers()
    .Build();

Are you building a package for Umbraco?

Then you will not have access to the Program.cs file. Instead you need to create a composer in order to register your extension method.

Learn more about this in the Dependency Injection article.

1. Build the project.

2. Run the website.

Entra ID Login Screen