Folks, is anyone familiar with Azure Active Directory B2C? I ask because it looks like it might be useful for us, but I'm not sure because the info HERE <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory-b2c/> is more marketing than technical. Here's why I'm asking...
At the far backend of one of our REST services is an authentication system that is at least 20 years old and holds the login names, roles and permissions in text files, seriously! The files are vaguely like the INI format. About a year ago my task was to put this information into a SQL Server database, which I did as an experiment, and it went quite well as the data could be nicely normalised. I revisited this issue this week and I think the SQL DB migration idea is already clumsy and outdated. We'd have to host the DB in a VM or in Azure which can get expensive (ref my posts months ago). So I went looking for a more modern idea and stumbled across Azure B2C. It claims to hold all of your authentication credentials and integrate with popular providers like Facebook, Live.com, etc. In theory it would be fabulous if users of our new mobile apps could have a unified sign-in that accepts either our custom credentials or their existing well-known ones. I cannot yet picture the technical difficulty of this, or exactly what's possible or not, but it sounds hopeful. Any ideas anyone? Or are there other choices for a unified sign-in system? *Greg K*
