Using Adal for accessing the Azure KeyVault on behalf of a user

Question

The following is in a console application and ClientID, RedirectUri is from the created native app in azure active directory.

var authContext = new Authenticatio         


        

Answer 1

Here is what you need to do:

• Create a service principal
• Register it in Azure AD
• Grant it access to the Azure KeyVault API

The steps were documented in an Azure article last September at

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kv/2016/09/17/accessing-key-vault-from-a-native-application/

This article explains how to perform the above steps to access Azure KeyVault programmatically from a native application (as opposed to a service application) without having to rely on the Azure Powershell trick mentioned by @benv.