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AAD Manifest parameters

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, csharp

Research direction

Start with the Microsoft documentation linked in the issue and compare the Azure AD manifests for PersonalMicrosoftAccount and AzureADMyOrg. Determine which manifest attributes and token version are required for the package uploader, then verify that the resulting client-secret token is accepted without introducing other authentication problems.

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Description

Specifically "signInAudience" (aka: Supported account type) seems to matter for the AAD application being used for authentication.
"PersonalMicrosoftAccount" seems to give issues and does not let the AAD app be used for package uploader.
If we change "signInAudience" to be "AzureADMyOrg" things will probably work, but are there are other manifest attributes that will need to change as well in order to support this and not cause any problems?

We noticed that in the manifest an app with "signInAudience":"PersonalMicrosoftAccount", it has "accessTokenAcceptedVersion": 2 but this restriction isn't there for an app with "signInAudience":"AzureADMyOrg" (null value for that key). From reading various available documentation like these:
[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/supported-accounts-validation]

[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/access-tokens#token-formats]

...it seems that the supported account type changes features available and Azure AD apps use version 1.0 tokens if I'm not mistaken. So part of what we're wondering is if this is why the client secret token is accepted for "signInAudience":"AzureADMyOrg" but rejected for "signInAudience":"PersonalMicrosoftAccount".

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