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curious7
Jul 16, 2026Brass Contributor
Question for OAuth setting for "Try me" function in APIM developer portal
I am working on a APIM deployment that will have developer portal available to developers. Login to portal will only allow Azure B2C accounts and thus will have OAuth already performed. On the API...
Kidd_Ip
Jul 18, 2026MVP
If you secure APIs in Azure API Management (APIM) with a JWT validation policy (e.g., validate-jwt), then the “Try it” console in the developer portal must present a valid access token. If you don’t configure OAuth for the “Try it” function, calls will fail against APIs that enforce token validation. The portal login token (via Azure AD B2C) is not automatically reused for API calls but the test console requires its own OAuth configuration.