How to check password writeback connectivity status through Microsoft Graph? - microsoft-graph-api

Within a tenant that is synced via Azure AD Connect with an on-premises AD it is possible to enable password writeback if you met some requirements (have needed license, configured Azure AD Connect, enabled option in Azure).
Within the Azure Portal this state can be checked and be changed and it uses the following Azure API call:
https://main.iam.ad.ext.azure.com/api/PasswordReset/CheckWritebackConnectivityStatus
Unfortunately this call can't be done by myself, cause I don't have a valid token for this endpoint. So exists there any similar call within Graph (v1.0 or beta) to check if writeback is enabled or is it possible to get a valid token for this endpoint?

Currently no method is available within MS Graph to retrieve this information. So at least a feature request was made.

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item within versionoverrides invalid 'webapplicationinfo' on Exchange on prem with Azure AD Hybrid

We have a working outlook app using version 1_1 on O365. We are testing this with an exchange on prem only setup but with azure AD hybrid. The graph API functions we need work within this environment thanks to testing on graph api exporer.
When we push the manifest to exchange either via the exchange admin portal or via powershell we receive an error relating to webapplicationinfo being invalid. We have this within versionoverride 1.1 and that within versionoverride 1.0
If I remove the webapplicationinfo section which includes the scope, this will import ok, but when the app performs the function to get the auth token it fails, for which I am sure because the scope wasnt authorised.
No where i can find that says on prem is not supported. I find a lot of reference to 2016 CU3 but nothing specific to on prem. Can someone assist?
Exchange 2016 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3), released in September 2016 for Exchange on-premises servers, adds support for REST API integration with Microsoft 365. If your app uses v1.0 of the Mail, Calendar, or Contacts API, you will now also find a seamless authentication and application experience in hybrid deployments, regardless of whether the mailbox is on-premises or in the cloud, provided that the deployment meets specific requirements.
See Use REST APIs to access mailboxes in Exchange hybrid deployments (preview) for more information.

Using Client Credentials with Microsoft Graph OneNote API on Office 365 Business

I am building an app (HTTPS calls from LabVIEW) that will update my enterprise OneNote notebooks on Office 365 without the need for any user interaction. Hence I have opted for using the Client Credentials flow and granting Application permissions in Azure AD to my app (Read and write all OneNote notebooks) through Microsoft Graph.
I have referred to the instructions mentioned in the following pages:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/onenote-auth-appperms
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/permissions_reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-v2-protocols-oauth-client-creds
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/auth_v2_service
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/onenote-create-page
I am able to get an access token from Microsoft Graph but once I try to use it to update my notebooks by making a POST call to the URL
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onenote/pages
I get the error:
"The OneDriveForBusiness for this user account cannot be retrieved." Code - 30108
However, I am fully able to access OneDriveForBusiness online using the same account which created the app and the tenant ID of which I used to grant permissions. Can someone please clarify if there are certain restrictions regarding the type of O365 and OneDriveForBusiness subscriptions that are necessary for my requirements? Which particular subscription or their combinations thereof should allow me to achieve the flow I need?
You cannot use /me with Client Credentials. /me is an alias for /users/{currentUserId but since you're using Client Credentials, there is a User in context for the API to map that alias to. You are effectively calling /v1.0/users/NULL/onenote/pages in this case.
You need to explicitly specify the User you want to access:
/v1.0/users/{userId or userPrincipalName}/onenote/pages

Tenant does not have a SPO license

I have an error while trying to use Microsoft Graph to write a script to upload an Excel file to OneDrive then read the Excel file.
I followed Microsoft documentation to obtain the access token without user. I successfully got an access token but I got an error while using the access token to call the OneDrive API.
Here is the response:
{
"error": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Tenant does not have a SPO license.",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "5ec31d17-3aea-469f-9078-de3608f11d0d",
"date": "2017-10-10T04:34:05"
}
}
}
I don't understand why I need to have SPO license while calling graph API and how to get it. Because of this error message so I'm trying to buy a SPO license.
According to this document, I think I should see many products in the license pages but while logging in with Azure Portal and go to the License page, I see only 2 products: Azure AD Premium and Enterprise Mobility Suite:
In case anyone else has a similar issue, I was getting the same error message when using an Office 365 Home license. It turns out SPO stands for SharePoint Online, and you need an Office 365 Business account to have it. So as far as I can tell, you can't use the Microsoft Graph API to access OneDrive without having SharePoint (which only comes with the business licenses). This isn't really made clear anywhere that I could find.
Answering a couple of things here.
Background: Microsoft Graph is the developer gateway or API to many Microsoft cloud services, like Office 365, Azure Active Directory, EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite), personal Outlook, personal OneDrive and more. Use of the API is free, but to access the data behind it, you need to actually have those services - in some cases they may be free and in other cases you may need to pay for them.
As for adding Office 365 to your existing tenant. I believe you've signed up for Azure using a Microsoft Account. This means that you already have an Azure Active Directory tenant. You can still purchase/acquire Office 365 for that tenant. All you need to do is create a new Azure AD user (not a Microsoft Account) in your tenant, and make them a company admin. Then you should be able to sign-up for Office 365 - if it asks if you already have a tenant or account, sign in with the AAD account you just created. And voila, you should have an Azure AD tenant with a subscription to Azure AND now a subscription to Office 365.
Hope this helps,
In case anyone else has a similar issue, I was getting the same error message when using a personal Microsoft account, just like OP.
So, if you are using a personal account in a registered Azure Active Directory(AAD) app, that type isn't Personal Microsoft accounts only or Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox) you will get this error. Also, you need to use the correct endpoint to avoid errors.
The main problem is our account type. As a personal account, there are some restrictions to access one drive files. These restrictions are:
You can only use Oauth2 Code Flow or Oauth2 Token Flow. Both are interactive approaches. [1][2]
Your application registered in AAD needs be Personal Microsoft accounts only or Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox) and each one have a different endpoint to acquire the access token (That you can saw clicking on endpoint button, near the delete app button in app page). [3]
Enable these delegated permissions to your application registered in AAD: Files.Read, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite, and Files.ReadWrite.All.
With these restrictions in mind, you can set up a workflow in Postman following these two steps(I'm using endpoints of Personal Microsoft accounts only app type and using Oauth2 Code Flow):
Important note: To use code flow, you need to enable Access tokens in Implicit grant and hybrid flows on Authentication ADD app sidebar menu.
Aquire access token:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/consumers/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&response_type=token&redirect_uri=ONE_OF_REGISTERED_REDIRECT_URI&scope=Files.Read Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite Files.ReadWrite.All
After you fill in your information on Postman's request, I recommend using a browser and network inspection to login with a Microsoft account and permit the app. You are getting the access token via network inspection.
List one drive root files:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children
Add a new header:
Authorization
With value:
Bearer ACCESS_TOKE_OF_STEP_1
In my angular application, due to this interactive way restriction to access one drive files, I changed my authentication method to use Microsoft Authentication Library(MSAL) to avoid every time that need send an API request open a popup window to authenticate a valid Microsoft account.
Both OneDrive for Business and the Excel APIs require Office 365. Based on your screenshot, this looks like a standalone Azure Active Directory tenant (i.e. not linked to O365).
The reason for the SPO License message is that OneDrive for Business is a special SharePoint Online document library that is automatically provisioned for users.
Are you able to access the OneDrive contents (including the Excel file) manually through browser after logging in with your account in the same tenant?
If you are able to access the drive and file manually, please use Graph Explorer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer to sign in using the same account and make the call to get the Drive contents. When you’re signing-in, you would be presented with a consent page listing the permissions needed to be granted. Please make a note of those permissions and check whether the permission match to those required for accessing the drive.
If you do not have appropriate SPO license yet, you can try setting up a free Office-365 trial account (https://products.office.com/en-in/business/office-365-enterprise-e3-business-software) and test the APIs.
To add to Kikutos' answer answer, you can use this Azure sample to acquire the token via MSAL.NET.
The only thing you need to change is the Instance property, which needs to be set to:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/consumers/

Microsoft Graph API with Azure User Provisioning

What I want to do is quite simple: provision Office 365 and Azure Account from my Web App. And I want it to be available not only for me but for all the IT Departments (from other organizations too) that logs in my App.
From my understanding the steps I have to take are:
Register App on apps.dev.microsoft.com and get ID And Secret.
Enable the Scopes I'm interested in (in my case Directory.ReadWrite.All and User.ReadWrite.All) -- Enabled from both Delegated Permissions and Application Permissions
Gone through the LOGIN PROCESS
https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=[My Client]&response_type=code&redirect_uri=[My Account]/Account/Office&response_mode=query&scope=openid%20User.Read%20offline_access%20Directory.ReadWrite.All
Confirm the code I receive back on my Return URL
POST https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token?...secret and so on...
Now what I get is an object with Access Token, Renew Token and so on and so forth.
If I use it to get users, it's all working:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
But when I try to perform other operations the token seems invalid.
For instance:
Get Azure subscriptions (the account is admin of several subscription):
https://management.core.windows.net/subscriptions ==> UNAUTHORIZED
What I'm doing wrong? Is the IDEA behind it correct?
I really need to be done at a "global" level without config manual steps on every subscription or putting in some "TenantID" manually.
You've requested a token with scoped for the Microsoft Graph API which is why you can use API endpoints surfaced by https://graph.microsoft.com/.
The call to https://management.core.windows.net/subscriptions is not part of Microsoft Graph API so you're token isn't valid for that resource. That call is into the Service Management REST API. Authenticating for this API is documented here.

Connect to Azure SQL using Azure Active Directory from an Azure Website?

A have an Azure Website running which connects to an Azure SQL through Entity Framework 6. Everything runs and I'm using standard username/password (sql login) to connect.
Now, I would like to switch over to using AAD for authenticating to sql. I already have an AD Application set up for the website.
My question is:
How do I connect with my cert or clientid/clientSecret?
How do I ensure that the SqlAzureExecutionStrategy is still in function
Any guidance is much appreciated
Thanks!
There are three ways connecting to SQL database by using Azure Active Directory authentication.
Connecting using integrated (Windows) authentication
Connecting with an Azure AD principal name and a password
Connecting with an Azure AD token
More detail about the Azure AD authentication for the Azure SQL database, you can refer here.
And if you were trying the config the connecting with access token the code sample provided by this blog is helpful. Also it is helpful to familiar with to authenticate with Azure AD with the client credential flow using the certificate from this link.
And based on my understanding, the connection string you used doesn't effect the Connection Resiliency feature which provided by the Entity Framework.
This is what can be done in this scenario.
Generally, when you first acquire a token you will get an information when the token expires. With this you should keep the time-tracking and repeat your connection code acquiring a token before the token expires.

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