As of now, I have created an application that has certain permissions to access Mail Information of certain users in an organization. Till this point, admin from the organization would create the service and provide the credentials.
However, as a plan to scale the application to multiple organizations, I'd like to send a mail to admin to grant access for the permissions and automatically get the credentials.
I'm open to alternative ideas. Any ideas if the above is even feasible?
This is quite impossible to automate the complete process creating, and admin still need to approve the permission in Azure AD. What you can do here is ,just create the application and if user tries to access the app but they can't give consent ,they need to trigger a request for admin approval that can be sent by an email .
To allows admin consent request to be sent via email Configure the admin consent workflow , please follow the docs - Azure AD | Microsoft Docs
Hope that process will help you .
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I am writing an api using the msgraph api which should be able to read mail from shared mailboxes. I have setup the application in Azure and have given the following permission (my app is running as its own service and not on behalf of an user)
What I am confused about is
Why does it show Delegated, all the rest of my permissions to the application show Application.
Since this is an application how does an user share a particular mailbox with this application, what I can think of is to create a service account, then this application impersonates that service account and then uses the service account to access the shared mail, but this sounds like a really complicated process and am wondering if I'm heading down the correct path.
thanks in advance.
From the Microsoft graph permissions reference, Mail Permissions Mail.Read.Shared and Mail.Send.Shared require a signed in user which is why the permissions show up as delegated. To the best of my knowledge, there isn't currently a way to access shared mailboxes via Ms graph without a signed in user.
Please let me know if this helps, and if you have further questions.
My application wants to access all users' mailboxes. For that, I am getting permission from Admin consent. Now I want to get the user details of the admin who consented to the application. I know we can't use Me context ('/me' API end-point) as we are getting consent without a signed-in user.
Is there any way by which we can get user details of the admin who consented to our application using the access token?
Thanks in advance.
To the best of my knowledge, the access token does not contain user details of the admin who consented to your application. One way to get this information is by viewing activity reports in the Azure portal. You might also consider working with the activity reports API provided by Microsoft Graph.
Please let me know whether this helps and if you have further questions.
We have an app registered on Azure AD (we got app ID, secret, redirect URL). This app is a daemon/background application which is performing actions on behalf of a user, there is no signed-in user that can grant permissions. In particular, the app will periodically retrieve all emails from a particular outlook mailbox called my.test#org.com
We are following the permission scoping documentation and the permission documentation when there is no signed in user.
In my understanding we need
to give application-permissions on the API permissions page in Azure AD
create a security group which is somehow assigned to the mailbox we want to read from via
New-ApplicationAccessPolicy
-AppId e7e4dbfc-046f-4074-9b3b-2ae8f144f59b
-PolicyScopeGroupId EvenUsers#contoso.com <-- would I put here my.test#org.com or the ID of the security group?
-AccessRight RestrictAccess
-Description "Restrict this app to members of distribution group EvenUsers."
Is my understanding correct that both of the above steps are needed. It seems strange that in the first step we can only give tenant wide permissions to the application when we really only need to limit it to one particular mailbox.
Thanks for the help
The above steps looks good to me and i would do the same as well. Just provide necessary Graph permissions while you grant permissions to access your/others mailboxes - as described in the documentation/steps.
My organization has an institutional e-mail account in Outlook 365.
There is a small number of users who are responsible for managing that mailbox, reading, answering, forwarding and sending messages from that account.
I am writing a web application (PHP) to automate some messaging operations, so I implemented access to that account using Microsoft Graph. But this requires to login using that account's credentials, and I wouldn't like to share account's password (which I have) with those users.
Is it possible to to grant permission for those users' accounts so MS-Graph will allow them to read/write/send messages from that account, once they have logged in? If so, how would it done?
If this post lacks some relevant information I'm not remembering now, please comment and I'll edit to add it.
Thank you very much.
You could use admin consent for that purpose. Administrator can grant access for the entire tenant, and users will not be prompted for consent afterwards
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-permissions-and-consent#requesting-consent-for-an-entire-tenant
I'm building an app that shows users people they might be interested in talking to. If a user says he's interested in a person I show them, I want my app to create this person as a contact in my user's SalesforceIQ.
How do I do this? I see from the API documentation https://api.salesforceiq.com/#/ruby#documentation_contacts_create-a-contact that I can create a contact if I know my user's username and password, but of course I don't want my users to give me this information. Is there some way for the user to OAuth or whatnot by clicking a button that authorizes me to add things to their SalesforceIQ?
The SalesforceIQ API uses HTTP Basic authentication and does not currently support OAuth according to their documentation.
For a SalesforceIQ user to grant API access to your app to create contacts and for other privileges, the SalesforceIQ admin creates an API Key and API Secret for your app which is then used for the HTTP Basic authentication username and password. This way no user needs to provide your app with their credentials. This is configured in the SalesforceIQ admin UI under Settings > Integrations > Create New Custom Integration.
For the admin to provide these credentials to your app, you can have a UI where the SalesforceIQ admin enters this for your app to store and use with the API for their account.
This is described in the following places, briefly in the API Reference and in detail in a Help Desk article with screenshots of what the SalesforceIQ admin needs to do:
API Reference: Requesting Access
API Reference: Security and Authentication
Help Article: Set up API access