I found this tool via the webapi template: dotnet new webapi --auth, when used from VS it gets added to .config\dotnet-tools.json

{
 "version": 1,
 "isRoot": true,
 "tools": {
 "microsoft.dotnet-msidentity": {
 "version": "2.0.8",
 "commands": [
 "dotnet-msidentity"
 ],
 "rollForward": false
 }
 }
}

When I tried to use the tool I got

App: C:\.tools\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet-msidentity2円.0.8\tools\net7.0\any\dotnet-msidentity.dll
Architecture: x64
Framework: 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '7.0.0' (x64)
.NET location: C:\Program Files\dotnet\

But we know that .NET7 is out of support.

My next step was to search for the repo, the nuget package points to https://github.com/dotnet/MSIdentityScaffolding (note it's private), and it was archived in 2021 while the latest version in NuGet 2.0.8 is from 2003.

This state raised some questions.

1. Is the tool still supported?
2. If yes, can we expect an update to follow LTS releases?
3. If not, should it be removed from the latest templates, and update the package as deprecated?