I am new to Microsoft Graph and SharePoint Framework. Recently developing spfx webpart with Graph API's integration.
I have registered the app in https://apps.dev.microsoft.com portal and AAD implementation through hello.js.
The first time browsing to the page, it redirects to Microsoft app login page and prompt for credentials.
Once authentication successful then it's working fine, from then on it does not prompt for credentials.
Is there any possiblities to access MS Graph API directly using Application Id, and Secret without prompting for login?
Yes, you will want to use the client credential flow to do this. You will only have access to organizational data (/me won't work for example, but /users will). There is an article on getting access here.
You will need to log in as an admin one time per application to authorize your app to use your tenant's data. You can do this at:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/adminconsent?
client_id=6731de76-14a6-49ae-97bc-6eba6914391e
&state=12345
&redirect_uri=http://localhost/myapp/permissions
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I have to read User emails (particular subfolder), One Drive, Team Channels and Sharepoint after some regular intervals at the background using Microsoft Graph API but not without having the user consent which should be taken only once when they logged in to the web based application first time and not afterwards. I am not sure where to start from and how this can be achieved? Should the token be stored forever in some database securely OR Is it the AAD?
Would really appreciate any pointers/APIs/Libraries/concepts or links which can help in moving towards this direction.
If you want to get the token without user, client credentials flow can be used. The flow permits a web service (confidential client) to use its own credentials, instead of impersonating a user, to authenticate when calling another web service.
In the client credentials flow, permissions are granted directly to the application itself by an administrator. So it is necessary to use the application permissions. You could call Microsoft Graph API with the access token.
For example, call this API to get message:
You need to add one of the application permissions to API permission(navigate to Azure Active Directory-> your application), and click grant for your tenant.
I'm having difficulties finding documentation for auth0 and microsoft graph integration. My end goal is to have a SPA that can login with a microsoft profile to auth0 (connected to azure ad). Then I want my app to get a token for microsoft graph and do some api calls.
As I've understood it so far, auth0 does not allow you to get the access token to different identity providers in a front end application, but rather that they should use a proxy to get this token. My flow therefore is:
I login with a SPA auth0 app (using a microsoft identity)
This is then used to authenticate to a backend server using a api registration in auth0
The backend has its seperate machine-to-machine app in auth0
Backend api uses this seperate app to get access token to auth0 management api
Current user is fetched (based on the logged in user from front end app login) from management api,
Here i find an access token under the azure identity (if I do the same in the front end, the access tokens are omitted)
Token does not work to call graph, I am unsure of where to send it next.
I am aware that the above is probably completely wrong, that's why I am here :)
My questions are:
1) Is it even possible to get an access token for microsoft graph starting from a login to auth0 in the way I want it to. If not, can it be done from a backend?
2) Does anyone have a link that discusses this, ideally with some code samples.
To answer your first question:
1) Is it even possible to get an access token for microsoft graph starting from a login to auth0 in the way I want it to. If not, can it be done from a backend?
I have had the chance to authenticate apps using the microsoft identity library called MSAl whose documentation is found here. It gives a pretty detailed way to authenticate directly from your SPA.
I have also used the microsoft javascript sdk as it comes inbuilt with token caching and refreshing so that I do not need to build that for myself.
In relation to this,
Does anyone have a link that discusses this, ideally with some code samples.
You can find the samples well described in the samples section of the SDK
I hope this helps.
I'll try to connect to the content api for shopping via API.
I'de tried some different oAuth ways (e.g. "three-step-method" with access key and baerer-token) but for a spezific integration I need the "credentials-oAuth".
Currently I tried as following:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth?
client_id=[my client id]&
scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content&
redirect_uri=[some random request bin -> added in Authorised redirect URIs ]&
response_type=code
If I call this via Postman, I'll be redirected to the login page of Google. But why?
How can I solve this problem?`
BG
David
Shopping API data is private user data. In order for your application to access private user data it must have the permission of the user who owns that data.
We use OAuth2 to do that. The user must consent to your application accessing its data. In the below image the application Google analytics windows is asking the user for permission to access their Google analytics data.
If I call this via Postman, I'll be redirected to the login page of Google. But why?
You are seeing a login screen with Postman is simple the user needs to be logged in before they can grant access to their data.
How can I solve this problem?
You dont as there is no problem the user must login to grant your client application consent to its data. This is working exactly as it should
Service accounts
Update to answer comment Service accounts are special Google accounts that can be used by applications to access Google APIs programmatically via OAuth 2.0. A service account uses an OAuth 2.0 flow that does not require human authorization. Instead, it uses a key file that only your application can access. This guide discusses how to access the Content API for Shopping with service accounts.
I am building a sample ASP.NET 5 (vNext) web application to act on behalf PowerBI users through Power BI API.
I followed all the steps here to register my application and I have the ClientId.
The app was added to my Azure Active Directory realavaloro.onmicrosoft.com
My web application is able to redirect the user to the authority https://login.windows.net/common/oauth2/authorize/passing as query parameters the response_type, clientId, resource and redirect_uri
"response_type": "code"
"resourceUri": "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api",
"clientId": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"redirectUri": "http://localhost:59136/"
The browser is properly redirected to the microsoft page and the user enters his Power BI credentials. If authenticated, it is redirected to the redirect_uri with the code + session_state
The problem is that I don't fully understand this mechanism.. :)
If I use my PowerBI test account credentials (diego#realavaloro.onmicrosoft.com) the authentication is successful and the browser is redirected properly with code + session_state
But if I try to authenticate with other PowerBI credentials, for example joe#companyb.com it fails to authenticate with the Bad Request message:
AADSTS70001: Application with identifier 408c866f-ad71-4354-b9fd-c954cae84dd7 was not found in the directory companyb.com
I thought any user with an account in PowerBI would be able to, through our web application, user his PowerBI account through the API provided our web application has permission.
But it seems that if we want that to happen with this approach every user would need their own Azure Active Directory to authenticate against.
Is there anything I am missing here?
Is there any option to allow our application act on behalf ANY Power BI user?
Thank you!
PS: I built my test web application following guidelines at https://github.com/PowerBI/getting-started-web-app-asp.net
I will answer myself. The reason I my web application couldn't authenticate external users with their Power BI credentials was (duh!) because I had not configured my web application in Azure AD as multi-tenant.
Thanks to this great presentation https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3551 I found some good answers including the meaning of multi-tenant :)
I still have to investigate the Azure libraries to manage all these Authentication headers for me and get my head around OAuth2 but at least I can say now that the authentication works for external users.
We want to integrate our mobile app with OneDrive , but i do not want my user to explicitly login into OneDrive.
The flow which i want is like.
Our app will authenticate the user based on his credentials stored in our organization's LDAP.
Once the user is authorized we want to enable him to his OneDrive account through our application.
Short answer, no.
OAuth 2.0 is the only public api for authentication, as stated on the OneDrive API Documentation.
You can verify authorization against LDAP first, but the user is going to have to log in to authorize access to their OneDrive at some point, somewhere.
An open source library is doing the same - checkout --
https://github.com/liveservices/LiveSDK-for-iOS