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Client secret
Client secret: A password-like credential on an app registration. Certificates or federated credentials are safer, and secrets need tracking before they expire.
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Posts that use this term
- Ten new free tools for Azure, Entra and Intune admins, and Admin Lens 2.1 21 Oct 2026
- Unattended Graph PowerShell scripts with certificate authentication 16 Sept 2026
- Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure without storing a single secret 21 Jan 2026
- Managed identities vs service principals: which should your workload use? 7 Jan 2026
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