University of Reading

Microsoft Entra ID Tenant OpenID Connect Discovery

The university's institutional identity plane. Tenant 4ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f, whose OpenID Connect discovery document is public and complete at login.microsoftonline.com/reading.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration (verified 2026-09-01). The realm lookup returns NameSpaceType "Managed" and FederationBrandName "University of Reading", so there is no on-premises federation server behind it. Probing timetable.reading.ac.uk and myid.reading.ac.uk each redirected into this tenant, which is how its scope was confirmed. The endpoint is Microsoft's; the tenant, its applications and its users are Reading's. No self-service application registration is available to outside developers.

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https://login.microsoftonline.com/reading.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-reading:entra-id-tenant
name: Microsoft Entra ID Tenant OpenID Connect Discovery
x-operator: federation
description: The university's institutional identity plane. Tenant 4ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f,
  whose OpenID Connect discovery document is public and complete at login.microsoftonline.com/reading.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  (verified 2026-09-01). The realm lookup returns NameSpaceType "Managed" and FederationBrandName "University
  of Reading", so there is no on-premises federation server behind it. Probing timetable.reading.ac.uk
  and myid.reading.ac.uk each redirected into this tenant, which is how its scope was confirmed. The endpoint
  is Microsoft's; the tenant, its applications and its users are Reading's. No self-service application
  registration is available to outside developers.
humanURL: https://www.reading.ac.uk/digital-technology-services
baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/reading.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
tags:
- Identity Federation
- OpenID Connect
- OAuth
- Single Sign-On
- Entra ID
properties:
- type: API
  url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/reading.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-reading-authentication.yml