I would like to follow Microsoft instructions and use Microsoft Graph v1.0 instead of Azure Graph Api. Unfortunately i don't see possibility to allow user for password reset.
Additionally i would like to discover possibilities for Self service password reset using graph API. My purpose is to create custom page for resetting password for user. Application authentication will be build using ROPC approach.
You could use Update user to update user's passwordProfile property to reset user's password.
An example:
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id | userPrincipalName}
{
"passwordProfile":
{
"forceChangePasswordNextSignIn":false,
"password": "**"
}
}
For Self service password reset, just take advantage of Get access on behalf of a user and use Delegated Permission to allow users to reset their own passwords.
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I am trying to send email using UserNamepassword provider with delegated permission but getting error as below
AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000'. Trace ID: 66ecbe3d-56d1-4850-8310-dd33cb8d3900 Correlation ID: b2f61146-44d3-4997-ab99-5370bbac6b04
When I tried with Application permission with send.mail, I am able to send email as any user.
but as per the company restrictions i need to send email using delegated permission.
How to achieve this as error is with respect to Multi factor authentication as MFA has been enabled on our account.
IPublicClientApplication publicclientapplication = PublicClientApplicationBuilder
.Create(clientId)
.WithTenantId(tenantId)
.Build();
UsernamePasswordProvider authprovider = new UsernamePasswordProvider(publicclientapplication, scopes);
await graphServiceClient.Me
.SendMail(email, false)
.Request().WithUsernamePassword("Username", passwordstring(stringpassword))
.PostAsync();
Please help here with options.
If the user has multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled, then you can’t use username/password to obtain tokens, because ROPC flow does not support MFA, according to the documentation:
If users need to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to
the application, they will be blocked instead.
The easiest way is to use the auth code flow, which supports users with MFA enabled to log in to the application. When using this flow, you need to log in to the user to obtain the authorization code, and then use the authorization code to redeem the access token.
My use case is whenever i get a trigger from Cosmos DB in Azure functions, need to interact with Azure digital twin APIs without any human interaction.
From the below link, I understood we can use service principal to achieve it.
Is it possible to configure Azure Digital Twins API access for a Daemon App?
But I don't know how to authenticate service principal with digital twin APIs.
1)What type of authentication is required and how the flow will be?
2)If it is Oauth2, what is the grant type and scope for accessing digital twin?
Thanks in advance.
There is an (almost) undocumented way to use the Digital Twins API without an On-Behalf-Of flow. I use it for automated tasks to manipulate the contents of ADT or to give certain applications read-only view of the data. It all starts with a role assignment. See this snippet from the YAML that I use to provision my ADT instance when I first make it.
- roleId: 98e44ad7-28d4-4007-853b-b9968ad132d1 # Space Administrator
objectId: abcd1234-5556-44a2-1234-402dbd999619 # Service Principal object ID
objectIdType: ServicePrincipalId
tenantId: 1234567-8901-2345-abcd-123456789 # Azure subscription tenant
The ServicePrincipalId object type is described on this page but is never mentioned in any of the samples again. This snippet gives Space Administrator rights to a service principal. You can then use a client secret to retrieve an access token that will allow you access to ADT. When making an app registration for ADT in your Azure Active Directory, go to Certificates & Secrets and make a new client secret.
The next step is to retrieve the objectId of the Service Principal, this is not the objectId of the application registration. When you go to the Overview tab of your App Registration you can copy the Application ID and perform the following command in the cloud console:
az ad sp show --id {the id you copied}
This will show a lot of details about your Service Principal including the objected. Copy this as well.
Almost there, to retrieve an Access Token you need 4 things:
Authority: https://login.microsoftonline.com/{your tenant id}
ClientId: The application id of your app registration.
ClientSecret: The client secret you created.
DigitalTwinsAppId: This is always 0b07f429-9f4b-4714-9392-cc5e8e80c8b0
Retrieving the Access Token in .NET Core
var authContext = new AuthenticationContext({Authority});
var clientCredential = new ClientCredential({ClientId}, {ClientSecret});
var result = await authContext.AcquireTokenAsync({DigitalTwinsAppId}, clientCredential);
return result.AccessToken;
Add that to your headers (HttpClient example below) and you are good to go!
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
1)What type of authentication is required and how the flow will be?
As the post you have referred to, you should use OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow.
The main flow is here: Call Digital Twins from a middle-tier web API.
2)If it is Oauth2, what is the grant type and scope for accessing
digital twin?
You can refer to this sample:
grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer
And for scope, it should be the digital twin API you want to access. (eg. spaces, devices, users or sensors). See API summary.
I'm trying to connect to exchange online and do certain operations with the emails using Microsoft Graph API 1.0 and this is all done in a demon program. I'm using Client Credential workflow for authentication, below is the small piece of code
AuthenticationContext authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, azureEndPoint, tenant));
ClientCredential clientCredential = new ClientCredential(clientId, clientSecret);
AuthenticationResult authenticationResult = await authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(resource, clientCredential);
But for this code to return the authentication token I have to get Application Permissions to the azure app id against microsoft graph api. The caveat here is if the permission is granted, the application id will have access to read emails of all users in the organisation and due to this reason tenant admin has strictly refused to grant the permission.
I tried my luck with consent framework but that requires user intervention to enter his/her id and password which is not possible in case of a demon program. I read few blogs like below but they all end up entering the user id password to get to the redirect url which defeats the whole demon thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/exchangedev/2015/01/21/building-daemon-or-service-apps-with-office-365-mail-calendar-and-contacts-apis-oauth2-client-credential-flow/
Is there any way I can give read/write access to azure application id for specific email ids in the tenant? Or alternatively any smart way to somehow get to the mailbox without user intervention?
Thanks in advance,
Vivek
You can only use app permissions with client credential grant flow.
To access only specific users' emails, you'd have to do a different approach.
This does require each user to consent individually.
Have the users login to your app, require consent for access to their email.
Upon returning to your app, acquire a refresh token and store it securely.
A refresh token is user-specific.
Then in your daemon service you acquire an access token for each user using their refresh token.
If the acquire fails because the refresh token has been invalidated,
the user will need to be notified to login again.
This is now resolved as microsoft has introduced a new concept of limiting application permissions to specific mailboxes or set of mailboxes using Group Policies. Check here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/auth-limit-mailbox-access
I am trying to reset another user's password through the Graph API (specifically graph.windows.net, though the same behavior occurs using graph.microsoft.com as well).
I believe all security is properly set up. The application registration has the Directory.ReadWrite.All permissions and the service principal is a Global Administrator. There are no errors regarding insufficient privileges, but whenever I try to provide a password inside the password profile I get an error.
PATCH request to
https://graph.windows.net/{tenant_id}/users/{userPrincipalName}?api-version=1.6
with the following body gives me a 204 response.
{
"passwordProfile": {
"password": null,
"forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true
}
}
But the same request with a password of "P#ssword1" or any other valid password returns a 400 Bad Request with the message "One or more properties contains invalid values."
Anyone encountered anything like this? These are accounts being synced from local AD but the password reset has been turned on in Azure and you can manually reset the passwords in AAD. Any help or advice is much appreciated.
It turns out this was a problem with how AD sync is set up in their environment. Apparently a federated domain syncing to Azure AD locks out the ability to reset passwords via the Graph API but the error messages don't tell you its a permissions issue.
It's outline here under unsupported operations, my problem was not understanding the full AD environment set-up: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/concept-sspr-writeback
According to your description, I assume you want update user's password through the Graph API.
According to this document, when we update the passwordProfile property, the following permission is required: Directory.AccessAsUser.All.
Based on my test, we can modify someone's password by using the following steps:
Grant the permission by following this document.
Check the password in the profile whether satisfy minimum requirements as specified by the passwordPolicies property.
Use the following request to update someone's password.
The Request URL:
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}
And the request body:
{
"passwordProfile": {
"forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
"password": "P#assword1"
}
}
If successful, this request returns a 204 No Content response code.
You're calling the wrong URL, graph.windows.net is the legacy Azure AD Graph API. The Microsoft Graph APIs are located at graph.microsoft.com. While these APIs are similar in function, they're calling paterns are very different.
As kikang mentioned, in order to change a user's password you need need to request the Directory.AccessAsUser.All scope. There are a few important cavetes with this scope:
This is a Delegated scope, so it can only be requested when using Authorization Code or Implicit OAuth flows. It cannot be used with Client Credentials.
Before a User can consent to Director.AccessAsUser.All, you must first obtain Admin Consent from an Admin on the user's AAD tenant/instance.
Once you have the proper scopes consented, you need to issue a PATCH to the /user resource.
Your call will look similar to this:
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me
Content-type: application/json
{
"passwordProfile": {
"forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
"password": "A-Strong-Password"
}
}
How can a user reset his password using Microsoft Graph client.
I am not able to find the right way to do it.
Thanks.
Tom is correct about this the Delegate Scope Directory.AccessAsUser.All allowing the signed-in user to change their password. The standard User.ReadWrite can update most properties, but it cannot update the user's password.
It is, however, a supported operation. The SDK includes the PasswordProfile class you need to pass into Graph. The syntax would look something like this:
await graphClient.Me.Request().UpdateAsync(new User() {
PasswordProfile = new PasswordProfile() {
Password = "newPassword",
ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = true
}
});
How can a user reset his password using Microsoft Graph client
Unfortuntly, it seems that we can't reset password with Microsoft Graph client currently. According to the Microsoft graph update user API, we required to use the delegated permission type: Directory.AccessAsUser.All.
When updating the passwordProfile property, the following permission is required: Directory.AccessAsUser.All.
Delegated permissions are used by apps that have a signed-in user present. For these apps either the user or an administrator consents to the permissions that the app requests and the app is delegated permission to act as the signed-in user when making calls to Microsoft Graph.