01- Create Native Application

Technical configuration

01- Create Native Application

Native Client App

Azure Active Directory (AAD) uses OAuth 2.0 to enable you to authorize access to web applications and web APIs in your Azure AD tenant.

Prerequisite:

For ESS webapp you should have a separate user id and password, this should be used only for web application purpose. This user id we will add in native client app

Create a new app

  • Log in to the Azure portal (Microsoft Azure ).
  • If you have multiple AAD tenants, select the one that you want to use to create a new app.
  • Go to that screen and you can find the Azure services on portal and select App registration. The following screenshot shows the form to add a new application

Click on New registration, and, in the new form, fill in all the details
as in the following table and hit the create button:

NameESSWebIntegrationApp
Application typeAccounts in this organizational directory only 
Redirect URI

On completion of this registration, AD assigns your application a unique client

Identifier, that is, Application ID to your application:

Click on Certificates & Secrets under the Clients Secret create a new client secret and define the following

  • Go to Client secret and add a New client secret
  • Put a description and expire date according to your need
  • And click on Add

Check the API Permissions and make sure all other properties for this new application are in place before using it. Refer to the following screenshot:

  • Add a permission such as Microsoft Graph, Dynamics ERP and Azure directory graph.
  • For all application give delegated permission
  • And also check the concern permission for each application such as AX.FullAccess, CustomService.FullAccess and Odata.FullAccess
  • Click on Add permissions

Click on Owners and add the ESS user id as a member to access this app.

Now let’s register this app in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Navigate to System administration | Setup | Microsoft Entra ID applications

Click on the new button and fill in the required details as follows:

Note: Please add App ID and application name by name (ESS Application ) and user should have system admin secuirty role

  • App ID ( Client ID you got it from Azure portal configuration
  • Name : Name should be ESS Application
  • User ID : Define the inegration user you will define and use it also for Default domain user in self services application parameter
  • Please be sure user has system administrator role

Save the details and share it with Soletechs team

  • Application name
  • application ID( client Id),
  • Secret Key – Value (Red box)
  • Licensed to company infromation in D365
  • Dynamics 365 URI for UAT
  • Dynamics 365 URI for Production