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Interface IAccount

Namespace
Microsoft.Identity.Client
Assembly
Microsoft.Identity.Client.dll

The IAccount interface represents information about a single account. The same user can be present in different tenants, that is, a user can have multiple accounts. An IAccount is returned in the AuthenticationResult.Account property, and can be used as parameters of PublicClientApplication and ConfidentialClientApplication methods acquiring tokens such as AcquireTokenSilent(IEnumerable<string>, IAccount)

public interface IAccount
Extension Methods

Properties

Environment

Gets a string containing the identity provider for this account, e.g. login.microsoftonline.com.

string Environment { get; }

Property Value

string

Remarks

This property replaces the IdentityProvider property of IUser in previous versions of MSAL.NET except that IdentityProvider was a URL with information about the tenant (in addition to the cloud environment), whereas Environment is only the System.Uri.Host

HomeAccountId

AccountId of the home account for the user. This uniquely identifies the user across AAD tenants.

AccountId HomeAccountId { get; }

Property Value

AccountId

Remarks

Can be null, for example if this account was migrated to MSAL.NET from ADAL.NET v3's token cache

Username

Gets a string containing the displayable value in UserPrincipalName (UPN) format, e.g. john.doe@contoso.com. This can be null.

string Username { get; }

Property Value

string

Remarks

This property replaces the DisplayableId property of IUser in previous versions of MSAL.NET