MicrosoftDocs · Dickson Mwendia (Dickson-Mwendia) · Jul 30, 2025 · Jul 16, 2025 · Jul 18, 2025
diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/aad-b2c.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/aad-b2c.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ms.date: 01/27/2024
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/authorization-code-url-builder.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/authorization-code-url-builder.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/best-practices-enterprise.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/best-practices-enterprise.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/configure-http-client.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/configure-http-client.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/deployment-instructions-for-msal-java-samples.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/deployment-instructions-for-msal-java-samples.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/exceptions.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/exceptions.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/instance-discovery.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/instance-discovery.md
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@@ -103,4 +103,4 @@ Keep in mind:
 
 - The data passed in must be valid JSON
 - When using this feature, the customer is responsible for storing the data and refreshing it appropriately
-- MSAL already caches this data. This only reduces latency in scenarios where the application is creating a new process for each operation.
+- MSAL already caches this data. This only reduces latency in scenarios where the application is creating a new process for each operation.
diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/integrated-windows-authentication.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/integrated-windows-authentication.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/managed-identity.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/managed-identity.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/migrate-adal-msal-java.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/migrate-adal-msal-java.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ms.date: 01/27/2024
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-ms.topic: conceptual
+ms.topic: upgrade-and-migration-article
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-error-handling-java.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-error-handling-java.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-java-get-remove-accounts-token-cache.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-java-get-remove-accounts-token-cache.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-java-token-cache-serialization.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-java-token-cache-serialization.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-logging-java.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/msal-logging-java.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ms.date: 02/27/2024
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/service-to-service-calls.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/service-to-service-calls.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ms.date: 02/27/2024
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/support-for-adfs.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/support-for-adfs.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/telemetry.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/telemetry.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/advanced/using-wam-and-the-msal4jbrokers-package.md b/msal-java-articles/advanced/using-wam-and-the-msal4jbrokers-package.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ms.date: 02/27/2024
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@@ -85,4 +85,4 @@ Although the API for enabling a broker is very simple, a number of packages are
 
 - [msal4j-brokers](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/msal4j-brokers) - Essentially a thin layer between msal4j and javamsalruntime, meant to handle the conversion between requests from msal4j and results from javamsalruntime
 - [javamsalruntime](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/javamsalruntime) - A Java project that uses [JNA](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/javamsalruntime) to call into native code, converting Java classes and variables into C#/C++ equivalents and vice versa
-- MSALRuntime - A C++/C# project that provides APIs for accessing WAM and a number of other features, and eventually other auth brokers. This project produces the dll packages that javamsalruntime calls via JNA, and is the ultimate decider for what scenarios msal4j-brokers can support
+- MSALRuntime - A C++/C# project that provides APIs for accessing WAM and a number of other features, and eventually other auth brokers. This project produces the dll packages that javamsalruntime calls via JNA, and is the ultimate decider for what scenarios msal4j-brokers can support
diff --git a/msal-java-articles/build/fiddler.md b/msal-java-articles/build/fiddler.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/build/known-issues.md b/msal-java-articles/build/known-issues.md
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+ms.topic: troubleshooting-known-issue
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/build/maven.md b/msal-java-articles/build/maven.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-interactively.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-interactively.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-with-authorization-codes.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-with-authorization-codes.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-with-username-and-password.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens-with-username-and-password.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/acquiring-tokens.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/client-applications.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/client-applications.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/client-credentials.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/client-credentials.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/device-code-flow.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/device-code-flow.md
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diff --git a/...rticles/getting-started/using-the-acquired-token-to-call-a-protected-web-api.md b/...rticles/getting-started/using-the-acquired-token-to-call-a-protected-web-api.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/getting-started/why-use-msal4j.md b/msal-java-articles/getting-started/why-use-msal4j.md
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diff --git a/msal-java-articles/index.md b/msal-java-articles/index.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ms.author: dmwendia
 ms.date: 03/27/2025
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