Microsoft Entra Workload ID
GeneralHow Managed Identities Work Vm
In brief
The VM managed identity documentation changes the client_id value in its curl token-request example.
What Entra admins need to know
No administrator action is indicated; administrators referencing the example will see the updated client_id value.
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```bash
curl 'http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.azure.com%2F&client_id=00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444ffffffff-eeee-dddd-cccc-bbbbbbbbbbb0' -H Metadata:true
```
- A call is made to Microsoft Entra ID to request an access token (as specified in step 5) by using the client ID and certificate configured in step 3. Microsoft Entra ID returns a JSON Web Token (JWT) access token.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The following table shows the differences between the system-assigned and user-a The following example demonstrates how to to use CURL to make a request to the local Managed Identity endpoint to get an access token for Azure Instance Metadata service. ```bash- curl 'http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.azure.com%2F&client_id=00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444' -H Metadata:true+ curl 'http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.azure.com%2F&client_id=ffffffff-eeee-dddd-cccc-bbbbbbbbbbb0' -H Metadata:true ``` 6. A call is made to Microsoft Entra ID to request an access token (as specified in step 5) by using the client ID and certificate configured in step 3. Microsoft Entra ID returns a JSON Web Token (JWT) access token.