Using Azure App Service Authentication with ASP.NET (Classic) MVC Applications

Azure App Service has a facility called “Authentication / Authorization” and it assists primarily with the authentication requirements of Azure Mobile Apps. However, you can also use this in your web applications to abstract away the authentication needs. This makes it easy to integrate Facebook, Google, Microsoft Account, Twitter and Azure AD authentication schemes. This blog post will go through the process of configuring an ASP.NET MVC application to use Azure App Service Authentication.