Create Microsoft Azure Active Directory for NorthwindCafe

With Microsoft Azure, any developer can easily add a membership service immediately when you are ready to use it.  In my other tutorials we started to create the "Northwind Cafe" sample application.  Traditionally, we would store our user information in an SQL Server database.  While that would be the easiest place to store user information.  There are many downsides to doing that, for instance you have to lock down the SQL Server so that hackers are not able to hack into the database.  You also have to worry about network security and so forth.  The beauty of Microsoft Azure Active Directory is that you let Azure take care of all of that.  It also comes with many services already built-in like OAuth, and two-factor authentication.

Before we go on, we need to make the distinction that Azure Active Directory is not the same thing as your on-premise Active Directory.  Your on-premise machines will still be managed by your on-premise Active Directory.  Azure Active Directory is designed to scale your internet-based applications and APIs.

So let's get on with it!