O(Auth) brave new world
With Microsoft's declaration of intent to remove support of basic authentication for cloud Business Central instances, it's time to start figuring out the not-so-new kid on the block: OAuth. OAuth (Open Authentication) has been around for some time now and it provides many advantages over legacy methods. One of the biggest ones has been Single Sign On. Rather than having to create a multitude of accounts for an ever growing list of websites, you can use you Gmail account or Facebook login. The client site then gets a token that is unrelated to your actual credentials and you have one less password to worry about. Of course, this all comes at a cost and it can be pretty painful if you have any applications that need to be migrated and you are on the bleeding edge where documentation is sparse and a bit confusing. After trudging through the muddy waters of Business Central OAuth documentation, I'm pleased to say I've come out the other side and I can now help you,