How to customize SAML token claims to include custom attribute created as Directory Schema Extension in Azure AD

Background Recently I was engaged to assist a customer with an interesting issue. This customer follows the guideline at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/ad/graph/howto/azure-ad-graph-api-directory-schema-extensions to create a custom User attribute as a Directory schema extension and then assigns a value to the attribute. As an example, I have a few custom attributes created this way as can be seen by Microsoft Graph Explorer: The customer wants to have this custom attribute returned as a…

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Using “groups” claim in Azure Active Directory

Lets get Started! To enable the return of groups in a claim, there are two ways… Use the application registration manifest by enabling the groupMembershipClaims property… https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/reference-app-manifest or if it’s a SAML application, you can enable it though the SSO configuration. The steps on enabling groups claim is outlined in the following article… https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-fed-group-claims Once enabled, groups will now be returned in the “groups” claim within a access token or…

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