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Update Azure article with Entra details
Added sections on Entra tenancy and identity management.
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## Identity management
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## Entra: Tenancy
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- **Single-tenant Entra**
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- **Multi-tenant Entra**
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## Entra: Identity management
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In Microsoft Entra (formerly Active Directory):
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- **App registration** defines an application (client secrets, API permissions, redirect URIs, etc.). It is _"a template or blueprint to create one or more service principal objects."_
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- **Service principal** (also called **Enterprise Application** in the UI) is like an instance of the application. It defines the access policy and permissions for the user/application in the Microsoft Entra tenant. There can be many service principals linked to 1 app registration.
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Some nuggets of info from the docs - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/app-objects-and-service-principals?tabs=browser#application-object :
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- _"If you register an application, an application object and a service principal object are automatically created in your home tenant"_ - In other words, creating an App Registration will also create a Service Principal, in your current Microsoft Entra tenant. If you're running single-tenant Entra, then your work is done here.
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- _"A single-tenant application has only one service principal (in its home tenant), created and consented for use during application registration"_ - this says the same thing.
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- _"A service principal is created in every tenant where the application is used ... A multitenant application also has a service principal created in each tenant where a user from that tenant has consented to its use."_ -- In other words, you should just need to create 1 of these service principals, unless you have many Entra tenants.

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