diff --git a/docs/backends/azure_ad.rst b/docs/backends/azure_ad.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Microsoft Azure Active Directory / Office365
+============================================
+
+Azure Active Directory uses OAuth2 for its connect workflow.
+
+- Register a new application at `Microsoft Azure Portal`_, set your site
+  domain as redirect domain,
+
+- Fill ``Client Id`` and ``Client Secret`` values in the settings::
+
+      SOCIAL_AUTH_AZURE_AD_KEY = ''
+      SOCIAL_AUTH_AZURE_AD_SECRET = ''
+
+- Also it's possible to define extra permissions with::
+
+     SOCIAL_AUTH_AZURE_AD_SCOPE = [...]
+
+  Default is empty, which is enough to retrieve the user's first name,
+  last name and email.
+
+- Make sure to have a valid ``Redirect URL`` (``http://your-domain/complete/azure_ad``)
+  defined for the application in the portal.
+
+.. _Microsoft Azure Portal: https://manage.windowsazure.com/
diff --git a/docs/backends/index.rst b/docs/backends/index.rst
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--- a/docs/backends/index.rst
+++ b/docs/backends/index.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Social backends
    angel
    aol
    appsfuel
+   azure_ad
    battlenet
    beats
    behance
diff --git a/social/backends/azure_ad.py b/social/backends/azure_ad.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+"""
+Azure Active Directory/Office365 authentication backend
+
+The flow here is a little different from regular OAuth2 flow,
+because the id_token returned by Microsoft already contains
+basic information (user first name, last name, and username
+which is an email address) and we only need to decode it,
+so no further request for details from server is made.
+"""
+import jwt
+
+from social.backends.oauth import BaseOAuth2
+
+
+class AzureADAuth(BaseOAuth2):
+    name = 'azure_ad'
+    AUTHORIZATION_URL = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize'
+    ACCESS_TOKEN_URL = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/token'
+    REDIRECT_STATE = False
+
+    # ID_KEY should name a unique ID for the user. Microsoft documentation for
+    # the data we use (id_token claims) says:
+    # oid -- Object identifier (ID) of the user object in Azure AD.
+    # sub -- Token subject identifier. This is a persistent and immutable identifier
+    #        for the user that the token describes. Use this value in caching logic.
+    # We picked oid.
+    ID_KEY = 'oid'
+
+    def auth_complete_params(self, state=None):
+        # Specify a harmless resource
+        params = super(AzureADAuth, self).auth_complete_params(state)
+        # The resource name of your app is supposed to work here, but we found it didn't.
+        params['resource'] ='https://api.office.com/discovery/'
+        return params
+
+    def user_data(self, access_token, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Loads user data"""
+        # As noted above, most backends issue an API request here, but we
+        # can get the basic data by just decoding the id_token we already have.
+        response = kwargs.get('response', {})
+        id_token = response.get('id_token')
+        if id_token:
+            try:
+                claims = jwt.decode(id_token, verify=False)
+                return claims
+            except jwt.DecodeError:
+                # Token was not really jwt claims                
+                pass
+            except:
+                import traceback; traceback.print_exc()
+                raise
+        return {}
+
+    def get_user_details(self, response):
+        """Return user details from AzureAD id_token claims"""
+        fullname, first_name, last_name = self.get_user_names(
+            first_name=response.get('given_name'),
+            last_name=response.get('family_name'),
+            fullname=response.get('name')
+        )
+        email = response['unique_name']
+        return {'username': email,
+                'email': email,
+                'fullname': fullname,
+                'first_name': first_name,
+                'last_name': last_name}
+