Project Online Authenticate OData Feed using Azure AD and Postman - oauth-2.0

I have recently spent a substantial amount of time determining how to authenticate an OData feed from Project Online using Azure AD and Postman. There are many posts in different forums about this, but I wasn't able to find a single post that gave a complete working example. Following is the method that I have used.

ASSIGN PERMISSIONS IN PROJECT ONLINE
Open Server Settings / Manage Groups.
Choose the Group that you want to allow to access the OData Feed and Ensure it has the Access Project Server Reporting Service under General in Global Permissions ticked.
CONFIGURE AZURE AD
Register a new app in Azure.
Define the Redirect Uri. (For postman, use https://oauth.pstmn.io/v1/callback)
Define a client secret
CONFIGURE POSTMAN
Create a new Request and define a Get query along the lines of the following. https://[Your Domain].sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/_api/ProjectData/Projects
This requests a list of projects.
Under params, add a new key accept = application/json if you want Json output. default is XML
Under Authorization Tab, choose the following:
Type = OAuth 2.0
Access Token = Available Tokens
Header Prefix = Bearer
Token Name = [Any Name you want]
Grant Type = Authorization
Code Callback URL = [tick Authorize Using Browser. This will then
default to https://oauth.pstmn.io/v1/callback]
Auth URL = https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize
Access Token URL = https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token
Client ID = [From Azure AD] Client Secret = [From Azure AD]
Scope = https://[Your Tenant Name].sharepoint.com/ProjectWebAppReporting.Read
State = [Anything you want]
Client Authentication = Send client credentials in body.
If you enter all of this correctly and then press Get New Access Token, you should see a browser open, enter your credentials and then a token should return to Postman as shown in screenshots below. Press Use Token.
Note, if you are interested to see what the token contains, you can decode it at https://jwt.io/
At this point, press Send, run your query and confirm that the Body contains odata output.
EDIT NOTE:
I have made multiple adjustments to this answer as I identified and resolved multiple roadblocks that I encountered. It turned out to be quite simple in the end, but the key concept that was needed to get this right was that the Scope parameter needed to be targeted to the PWA site. ie. https://[your tenant name].sharepoint.com.au/user.read

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Google oauth2Client.getToken is not returning id_token for other users

I'm implementing Google's 'code model' of Oauth2 and having trouble getting users' email - I wonder if this is a scopes problem or my misunderstanding about how to set up the code model. This sequence of events is already working:
Client loads https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client
Client starts call to google.accounts.oauth2.initCodeClient
Client gets code
Client passes code to one of my server endpoints
Server has an oauth2Client set up using the config with client_id, client_secret, and redirect URL = 'postmessage'
Server exchanges the code from the client for tokens
Server does oauth2Client.setCredentials(tokens) - this contains an access_token, which is enough for the client to make API calls to, e.g., retrieve the user's Google Calendar
Server is able to do oauth2Client.getTokenInfo(tokens.access_token);
There are various places along the way that involve scopes; I am probably getting something confused here. The client's initial call (step 2 above) uses
scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar',
My code path on the server does define scopes anywhere.
In GCP, my project is set up with scopes
calendar.calendarlist.readonly, calendar.readonly and calendar.events.readonly
openid
/auth/userinfo.email
Here's the problem I'm encountering: when I go through this flow as a user and oauth with the account that owns the GCP project (this is a Google Workspace email, in case that matters), the tokens object that the server receives (step 6 above) has access_token, refresh_token and id_token - the id_token can be decoded to yield the user's email, and the user's email is also in the response to oauth2Client.getTokenInfo(token.access_token).
However, when I go through the flow with my other (personal) Gmail account, the tokens object that the server receives is missing the id_token but has the access and refresh tokens. Question 1: why are the responses different?
Question 2: How can I get the email of the user on the server in the personal Gmail account case? I've tried having the server make a call to https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v2/userinfo?fields=id,email,name,picture with the access_token, but this fails. I am not sure if I'm supposed to declare scopes for oauth2Client somehow, or tap a Google API using a different method on the server.
I think I've had a breakthrough: in step 2 in my original post, when I did "Client starts call to google.accounts.oauth2.initCodeClient", I had set the scope of initCodeClient to just the calendar scope. When I changed it instead to scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email openid', (scope takes a space-delimited list in this case), it allowed my server call to get the id_token for this user and oauth2Client.getTokenInfo to get a response with the user's email in it.
When I updated the scopes like that, the popup asking for authorization also updated to request all the scopes I wanted - previously, it was only asking for the Calendar scope, so it makes sense Google didn't want to return the email.
What I still don't understand is why my previous setup was working for the account that owns the GCP project. In other words, when I was first building it out with that owner account, the client was only noting the Calendar scope while the server was asking for all three scopes (ie there was a mismatch), and the server was still able to get an id_token and the user's email in getTokenInfo. Maybe the owner account has some special privilege?

Find out who invited my bot the server using OAuth redirect uri

Before someone marks this question as duplicate,
Yes I know audit log is a thing.
No I won't use it because it requires permission.
Yes it's easier to find out server owner
No I need to know exactly who invited my bot
I want to:
Find out who invited my bot the server (user-guild id pair) using invite link redirection.
I read about the OAuth2 API but didn't quite undertstand it due to my lack of background knowledge.
All I understand is that bot invite links can have redirect uri,
and some infos are transfered to it after authentication.
Is it possible to get user/guild id from this?
I tried:
Setting up http server using python -m http.server,
add my IP to redirect uri list in dev page & generate a invite link containing redirect to my IP.
But I didn't get redirected to my http server after inviting my bot using that link,
and nothing got printed on the http server console either.
Things to note:
A. Don't reveal your client secret or your bot token for any purpose. If you do so, immediately regenerate them from the developer portal.
B. Code and token have different meanings in the answer below.
C. This is not for absolute beginners and you are expected to have a general understanding of web requests(specifically GET and POST requests). You might also need to host the site handling redirect URL.
D. This does not cover security issues in any shape, way or form.
In the bot tab of the developer portal, enable the REQUIRES OAUTH2 CODE GRANT option. This prevents the bot from joining a server unless step 4 is completed.
Then use the OAuth tab to generate an OAuth URL with identity and bot scopes. This is important to get user info in step 5.
When someone visits the URL, logs in, and selects a server, they are redirected to your redirect URL. This URL receives a single-use code as URL parameter ie the URL will be <base_url>&code={code}<other stuff>. It is up to you (and probably outside the scope of any SO answer; google is your friend here) to set up a web server and handle requests.
This code can then be used to get a token. This link explains how to exchange code for token. It involves sending a post request with your application's client id and secret. Both are available from discord's developer portal. The response will also have information about the guild along with the token in fields "guilds" and "access_token" respectively.
Send a get request to https://discord.com/api/v9/users/#me with a header containing Authorization: Bearer ${token} where the token is obtained in step 4. The response is in JSON format and contains user data specified here. Note: The link above is for the latest API version v9 which may change in future versions.
Edit:
It is possible to manually modify the URL to remove identity scope from URL. The bot would still join the server as long as you make a request to exchange the code for the token. In this case, the request to /users/#me would fail and you would have no access to the user object. It should be easy to make the bot leave the server if the request fails with the status code corresponding to unauthorized.

How do I authenticate against the Dynamics 365 Data Export Service API?

I've set up something called the Data Export Service for Dynamics 365 so that it replicates into an Azure SQL database. This is working as expected.
I'm trying to find a way to be proactively notified if this service encounters any errors. There does not appear to be a native way to do this through the setup in CRM itself, but they do provide an API. The Swagger page outlining all methods can be found here.
I'm trying to call the GetProfilesByOrganizationId method using Postman:
https://discovery.crmreplication.azure.net/crm/exporter/profiles?organizationId=4ef7XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX8a98f&status=true
I'm having issues with authentication and always receive the following error:
"Message": "Received unauthenticated requestRequest Url https://discovery.crmreplication.azure.net/crm/exporter/profiles?organizationId=4ef7XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX8a98f&status=true"
I have registered an application in Azure that has permission to access Dynamics 365 on behalf of the authenticated user which in this case is me, the administrator.
I have set the Type to OAuth 2.0 on the Authorization tab of Postman. I have requested an Access Token using the Grant Type of Authorization Code against the above application successfully. This has added a header to the request:
Key: Authorization
Value: Bearer BIGLONGACCESSTOKEN
Despite this header being present I still get the error mentioned above.
The API documentation implies the authentication is OAuth2 Implicit Grant Flow (click on any red exclamation mark in the documentation) but I can't get this to work in Postman. When I try to request a token with this method I get the error:
unsupported_response_type
... in the Postman console.
Any ideas how to authenticate (with Implicit Grant?) against this API in Postman?
(I'd accept C# examples if they're more appropriate, but I'd be surprised if Postman can't show me what I need)
It looks like the code sample shown by Microsoft can work if updated with newer methods and with some extra configuration in Azure that's not documented.
Azure configuration
By installing the Data Export service (and assuming it's all working) you'll have a new Enterprise Application listed in Azure AD as Crm Exporter.
To take advantage of this application and authenticate with the Data Export API you must configure an app of your own.
Go to the App registrations tab in Azure AD and add a new application registration.
Give it a name and set the Application type to Native. The redirect URI doesn't typically matter as long as it's valid.
Click the Manifest button to edit the manifest, change the property oauth2AllowImplicitFlow to true and save the changes.
The only other important configuration is Required permissions which should be set as below:
Windows Azure Active Directory
Delegated permissions
Sign in and read user profile
Data Export Service for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Crm Exporter)
Delegated permissions
Have access to Data Export Service for Microsoft Dynamics 365 API
You will then need to click Grant Permissions.
C# changes
The updated method looks like this:
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory;
string clientId = "11cfXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXd020";
string user = "my.username#domain.com";
string password = "PASSWORD";
var authParam= await AuthenticationParameters.CreateFromResourceUrlAsync(
new Uri("https://discovery.crmreplication.azure.net/crm/exporter/aad/challenge")
);
var context = new AuthenticationContext(authParam.Authority, false);
var credentials = new UserPasswordCredential(user, password);
var token = await context.AcquireTokenAsync(authParam.Resource, clientId, credentials).AccessToken;
You can now query the Data Export API by providing the token as a header:
Authorization : Bearer eJ0y........Hgzk
curl -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' 'https://discovery.crmreplication.azure.net/crm/exporter/profiles?organizationId=MyOrgId&status=true'

Proper method of getting a server auth access token for a client to use with google analytics

I have a global account that has several views that I want to use on the server side to embed dashboards for the various views on the client side. From what I understand, I get an access token using a service account on the server side and can then send the access token to the client side whenever needed. I was wondering, is this the correct flow? Should the access token be per session?
The authorization on the client side shown here has a field for a server auth access token, but couldn't find documentation on the exact flow I wanted. Basically I'm unsure what the proper way of generating that server auth access token is. Any help/pointers would be very much appreciated.
[Here][1] is an example of how to set up server side auth. The above code creates a new token when anyone visits the site. You can see the endpoint that gets that access token [here][2].
Below are the general steps to get to a working version:
Step 1: Create a service account and download the JSON key
Step 2: Add the service account as a user in Google Analytics
Step 3: Use the JSON key data to request an access token
# service-account.py
import json
from oauth2client.client import SignedJwtAssertionCredentials
# The scope for the OAuth2 request.
SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'
# The location of the key file with the key data.
KEY_FILEPATH = 'path/to/json-key.json'
# Load the key file's private data.
with open(KEY_FILEPATH) as key_file:
_key_data = json.load(key_file)
# Construct a credentials objects from the key data and OAuth2 scope.
_credentials = SignedJwtAssertionCredentials(
_key_data['client_email'], _key_data['private_key'], SCOPE)
# Defines a method to get an access token from the credentials object.
# The access token is automatically refreshed if it has expired.
def get_access_token():
return _credentials.get_access_token().access_token
Back to the client side:
Step 4: Load the Embed API library.
<script>
(function(w,d,s,g,js,fs){
g=w.gapi||(w.gapi={});g.analytics={q:[],ready:function(f){this.q.push(f);}};
js=d.createElement(s);fs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
js.src='https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js';
fs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fs);js.onload=function(){g.load('analytics');};
}(window,document,'script'));
</script>
Step 5: Add HTML containers to host the dashboard components.
<div id="chart-1-container"></div>
<div id="chart-2-container"></div>
Step 6: Write the dashboard code.
Use the access token obtained in step 3 to authorize the Embed API.
gapi.analytics.ready(function() {
/**
* Authorize the user with an access token obtained server side.
*/
gapi.analytics.auth.authorize({
'serverAuth': {
'access_token': '{{ ACCESS_TOKEN_FROM_SERVICE_ACCOUNT }}'
}
});
...
The additional work of creating an endpoint which returns the token depends on your back end implementation but the source code of how the demo does it can be found [here][2].
[1]: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/embed-api/server-side-authorization/
[2]: https://github.com/googleanalytics/ga-dev-tools/blob/abb3c5a18160327a38bf5c7f07437dc402569cac/lib/controllers/server_side_auth.py
I'm not very familiar with Google Analytics, but as far as OAuth goes, the handling of access tokens and refresh tokens should all be on the server-side. The client receives an authorization code and provides that to the server, which then obtains the tokens and uses the tokens to obtain the data necessary. There shouldn't be any need to send an access token to the client.
It might be helpful to read this, which describes the standard OAuth flow:
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2

How to make API requests with an access_token for a Service Account

My end goal is to be able to retrieve place details from Google's API.
I need to do this as a Service Account, since this is kicked off as a background task on my server. Service Accounts require you to exchange a JWT (JSON Web Token) for an access_token. I finally got that working and am receiving an access_token. Phew.
Now however, I don't know what to do with this access_token.
The Place Details API says that the key parameter is required, but I don't have a key. Just an access_token. Using that value for key or changing the name of the paramater to access_token is not working.
Ultimately I need to be able to hit a URL like so:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference={MY_REFERENCE}&sensor=false&key={MY_ACCESS_TOKEN}
How do I use my Access Token to make a request to the Google Place Detail APIs?
Update 1
Still no success, but I thought I'd post the details of my request in case there's something wrong with what I'm submitting to Google.
I'm using the JWT Ruby library, and here are the values of my claim set:
{
:iss => "54821520045-c8k5dhrjmiotbi9ni0salgf0f4iq5669#developer.gserviceaccount.com",
:scope => "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/places",
:aud => "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
:exp => (Time.now + 3600),
:iat => Time.now.to_i
}
Looks sane to me.
Create the service account and its credentials
You need to create a service account and its credentials. During this procedure you need to gather three items that will be used later for the Google Apps domain-wide delegation of authority and in your code to authorize with your service account. These three items are your service account:
• Client ID.
• Private key file.
• Email address.
In order to do this, you first need a working Google APIs Console project with the Google Calendar API enabled. Follow these steps:
Go to the Google APIs Console.
Open your existing project or create a new project.
Go to the Service section.
Enable the Calendar API (and potentially other APIs you need access to).
You can now create the service account and its credentials. Follow these steps:
Go to the API Access section.
Create a client ID by clicking Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID...
Enter a product name, specify an optional logo and click Next.
Select Service account when asked for your Application type and click Create client ID.
At this point you will be presented with a dialog allowing you to download the Private Key as a file (see image below). Make sure to download and keep that file securely, as there will be no way to download it again from the APIs Console.
After downloading the file and closing the dialog, you will be able to get the service account's email address and client ID.
You should now have gathered your service account's Private Key file, Client ID and email address. You are ready to delegate domain-wide authority to your service account.
Delegate domain-wide authority to your service account
The service account that you created now needs to be granted access to the Google Apps domain’s user data that you want to access. The following tasks have to be performed by an administrator of the Google Apps domain:
Go to your Google Apps domain’s control panel. The URL should look like: www.google.com/a/cpanel/mydomain.com
Go to Advanced tools... > Manage third party OAuth Client access.
In the Client name field enter the service account's Client ID.
In the One or More API Scopes field enter the list of scopes that your application should be granted access to (see image below). For example if you need domain-wide access to the Google Calendar API enter: www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly
Click the Authorize button.
Your service account now has domain-wide access to the Google Calendar API for all the users of your domain, and potentially the other APIs you’ve listed in the example above.
Below is a description that uses a service account to access calendar data in PHP
The general process for service account access to user calendars is a follows:
• Create the Google client
• Set the client application name
• If you already have an Access token then check to see if it is expired
• If the Access token is expired then set the JWT assertion credentials and get a new token
• Set the client id
• Create a new calendar service object based on the Google client
• Retrieve the calendar events
Note: You must save the Access token and only refresh it when it is about to expire otherwise you will receive an error that you have exceeded the limit for the number of access tokens in a time period for a user.
Explanation of Google PHP Client library functions used:
The client object has access to many parameters and methods all of the following are accessed through the client object:
Create a new client object:
$client = new Google_Client();
Set the client application name:
$client->setApplicationName(“My Calendar App”);
Set the client access token if you already have one saved:
$client->setAccessToken($myAccessToken);
Check to see if the Access token has expired, there is a 30 second buffer, so this will return true if the token is set to expire in 30 seconds or less. The lifetime of an Access token is one hour. The Access token is actually a JSON object which contains the time of creation, it’s lifetime in seconds, and the token itself. Therefore no call is made to Google as the token has all of the information locally to determine when it will expire.
$client->isAccessTokenExpired();
If the token has expired or you have never retrieved a token then you will need to set the assertion credentials in order to get an Access token:
$client->setAssertionCredentials(new Google_AssertionCredentials(SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME,array(CALENDAR_SCOPE), $key,'notasecret','http://oauth.net/grant_type/jwt/1.0/bearer',$email_add));
Where:
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME is the the service account email address setup earlier.
For example:’abcd1234567890#developer.gserviceaccount.com’
CALENDAR_SCOPE is the scope setup in the Google admin interface.
For example: ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly’
$key is the content of the key file downloaded when you created the project in Google apps console.
$email_add is the Google email address of the user for whom you want to retrieve calendar data.
Set the client id:
$client-setClientId(SERVICE_CLIENT_ID);
Where:
SERVICE_CLIENT_ID is the service account client ID setup earlier.
For example: ‘abcd123456780.apps.googleusercontent.com’
Create a new calendar service object:
$cal = new Google_CalendarService($client);
Several options can be set for calendar retrieval I set a few of them in the code below, they are defined in the api document.
$optEvents = array('timeMax' => $TimeMax, 'timeMin' => $TimeMin, 'orderBy' => 'startTime', 'singleEvents' => 'True');
Get the list of calendar events and pass the above options to the call:
$calEvents = $cal->events->listEvents('primary', $optEvents);
Loop through the returned event list, the list is paged so we need to fetch pages until the list is exhausted:
foreach ($calEvents->getItems() as $event) {
// get event data
$Summary = $event->getSummary();
$description = $event->getDescription();
$pageToken = $calEvents->getNextPageToken();
if ($pageToken) { // if we got a token the fetch the next page of events.
$optParams = array('pageToken' => $pageToken);
$calEvents = $cal->events->listEvents('primary', $optParams);
} else {
break;
}
}
Get the Access token:
$myAccessToken=$client->getAccessToken();
Save the access token to your permanent store for the next time.
The language isn't important php, ruby, .net, java the process is the same. The api's console shows the Places API as supporting service accounts so it should be possible to access it.
As far as using the token please have a look at https://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client/ code as the usage is clearly defined in the code repository. Doesn't make any difference if the access token is for a service account or a single user the process for using the token is the same. See the section titled "Calling a Google API" in the following link: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2InstalledApp
The access token is sent in the http authorization header along with the request.For a calendar request it would look something like the following:
GET /calendar/v3/calendars/primary HTTP/1.1
Host: www.googleapis.com
Content-length: 0
Authorization: OAuth ya29.AHES6ZTY56eJ0LLHz3U7wc-AgoKz0CXg6OSU7wQA

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