Login-AzureRmAccount (and related) equivalent(s) in .NET Azure SDK

Question

I became to wonder, what would could the equivalents of

• Login-AzureRmAccount
• New-AzureRmADServicePrincipal
• New-AzureRmADApplication

Answer 1

From the Azure Management Libraries for .NET source code, I couldn't find Creating AD ServicePrincipal and Azure AD function. After some investigation, I found we could do that with Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory.GraphClient SDK. I do a test demo, it works correctly on my side. The following is my detail steps:

Preparation:

1.We need to create a native AD Application in the Azure portal

2. Assign Access the directory as the signed-in user delegated permissions

3. We could get our tenant Id that is Directory info on the screenshot portal

Steps:

1.Create a C# console project.

2.Reference the Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory.GraphClient SDK, more details please refer to packages.config section

3.Add the following code in the project.

 public static async Task<string> GetAccessToken(string userName, string password)
        {
            var tokenResponse = await context.AcquireTokenAsync("https://graph.windows.net", appId, new UserCredential(userName, password));
            var accessToken = tokenResponse.AccessToken;
            return accessToken;
        }

    static string appId = "created AD Application Id";
    static string tenantId = "tenant Id";
    static string graphResourceId = "https://graph.windows.net";
    static string username = "user name";
    static string userPasswrod = "passowrd";
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        Uri servicePointUri = new Uri(graphResourceId);
        Uri serviceRoot = new Uri(servicePointUri, tenantId);
        ActiveDirectoryClient activeDirectoryClient = new ActiveDirectoryClient(serviceRoot, async () => await GetAccessToken(username, userPasswrod));
        Application application = new Application
        {  
            Homepage = "http://localhost:13526/",
            DisplayName = "tomnewapplication",
            IdentifierUris = new List<string> { "http://localhost/abcde" }
        };

     //Create Azure Directory Application   
     activeDirectoryClient.Applications.AddApplicationAsync(application).Wait();
        ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal
        {
            AppId = "existing AD application Id"
        };
     //Create service principal 
       activeDirectoryClient.ServicePrincipals.AddServicePrincipalAsync(servicePrincipal).Wait();
    }

4. Check from azure portal

packages.config file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory.GraphClient" version="2.1.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.Edm" version="5.6.4" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.OData" version="5.6.4" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.Services.Client" version="5.6.4" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Graph" version="1.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Graph.Core" version="1.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory" version="2.28.3" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="6.0.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Spatial" version="5.6.4" targetFramework="net452" />
</packages>