The conditional access flow of the Outlook app for iOS and Android
This week something completely different, this week I’ll be looking at the conditional access flow of the Outlook app for iOS and Android. By that I don’t mean that I’ll be looking at the high-level decision flow, which is available on TechNet, but more from a component perspective. It will be more of a what-happens-when-and-where flow. Before I’ll start with the what-happens-when-and-where flow, I think it’s important to first provide a bit of information about Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based authentication, the Open Authentication (OAuth) protocol and the Outlook Cloud Service in combination with Office 365. These components make the what-happens-when-and-where flow. ADAL-based authentication The Outlook app for iOS and Android uses ADAL-based authentication to access Office 365. ADAL-based authentication enables the Outlook app for iOS …