Restricting Microsoft Graph (or Azure AD Graph) read permissions - azure-active-directory

Further to the question raised here
Get all user properties from microsoft graph
Yes, I can obtain full user profile data using the graph query but from the perspective of the tenant, can I restrict the graph query to only be able to access the basic profile data?
Azure AD graph has delegated permissions for user.readBasic.all which restricts this. We have a 3rd party app that accesses the Azure directory to retrieve basic data to set up accounts in its user directory and we need to restrict this to the basic data due to the security risk. We cannot rely on the 3rd party just doing the right thing all the time.
So I need a way to set the app to allow app permissions (not delegated as the read occurs every 4 hours without human involvement) for user.readBasic.all.

If you want restrict the returned field from the "user.readBasic.all", the best way is you implement a custom handler(API/Service and so on). No directly official channel to do this now. (user.readBasic allows the app to read the full profile of the signed-in user, because after the user sign-in it means he has authorized the APP to get his information.)
You can check the blog for graph permission for here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aaddevsup/2018/05/21/finding-the-correct-permissions-for-a-microsoft-or-azure-active-directory-graph-call/
And for the detail of the "user.readBasic.all" you have pointed from official link(https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/permissions_reference#user-permissions) Allows the app to read a basic set of profile properties of other users in your organization on behalf of the signed-in user. This includes display name, first and last name, email address, open extensions and photo. Also allows the app to read the full profile of the signed-in user.

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Inviting a consumer to Azure AD B2C with custom in-app attributes

Inviting a consumer user to Azure AD B2C has been covered by other Stack Overflow questions & answers, and AFAIK requires the use of custom policies that entail a signed JWT being created and used during invite redemption.
What I'm trying to figure out: In our application, we have differently permissioned user groups and different organisations managed by internal RBAC logic. We identify & authorize users based on their oid claim in the access token that's returned to msal-react/msal-browser and used to authenticate against our backend's API.
In Microsoft Graph, a user can be invited and the API will respond with the created user's oid. However, this is the wrong type of user and not appropriate for B2C scenarios.
With the custom policy route not creating the user object in AAD B2C at the time of invite, and therefore without knowing the user's oid at the time of inviting them to the application, what might be the best way to configure their in-app profile and have them identifiable to the application itself upon first login?
My thought at the moment is to have the application store the emails of users that are invited who have not yet redeemed/signed-in. We can configure the emails claim to be returned upon login, which is checked against the invited emails store when an oid claim is returned that isn't present in the database. This can then trigger a function to update the user's internal id with the oid in their first login's claim.
If this is inadvisable or if there's a better way, I'd be very grateful to hear it.
It would work, or just pre create the user up front via MS Graph API. Then you have an email and objectId available.
You could also put an extension attribute on the account indicating whether the user has redeemed their invite. That would allow you to monitor who has redeemed, and also be a way to provide a different experience depending on if the user has redeemed or not redeemed the link.

Microsoft Graph external user access

I have an issue with accessing user data with microsoft graph api.
Context : I have a web app with a calendar inside for my users. I would like to give the user the possibility to synchronise this calendar with their microsoft calendar. I did the same thing with google calendars and it works well.
Problem : I registered an app on azure and setup my code with the correct access to login and get a token from the graph api.
It kinda works but i can only log in with the address i used to create my app on azure.
So lets say my admin address on azure is test#azure.com , then i can log in and access the data i want . But if i try with another address like for example test#customer.com, then it fails and display this message :
I keep looking for a way but the Microsoft graph documentation doesn't seem to talk about this problem.
I tried to add the account as an external user, like the message says (and maybe i did it wrong i'm not really sure of this part) but then i can log in but the data i can access doesn't match the data on the account i tried with, as if adding the user as an external user created a "new" user in my organisation.
What I want : I would like to be able to access the data of any user that try to log in with a microsoft email (if they accept the permissions of course).
It's my first time using the graph api so maybe i'm missing something simple...
Thanks
Based on the So thread reference:
When a user authenticates against your tenant, you only have access to the data controlled by your tenant. In other words, if test1#outlook.com authenticates against yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com tenant, you don't gain access to their outlook.com email.
Reason you're able to see the outlook.com email from Graph Explorer is that Graph Explorer is authenticating against their outlook.com account.
In other way, Graph Explorer is authenticating test1#outlook.com against the outlook.com tenant, not yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com.
When a user authenticates against a given tenant, that token only provides access to data within that single tenant. Microsoft Graph does not allow you to cross tenant boundaries.
Thanks Hong for the comment, you may also set your app registration to "multitenant + personal accounts"
So Reference: MS Graph External User 401 Unathorized

Delegate and impersonate as a user with admin/app credentials

One thing I do currently in an enterprise app is logon to a single admin email account that has delegation over other users and using delegation, we are able to manipulate email/calendar/contacts of users.
I'm looking to use the Microsoft Graph API and I have managed to use admin delegation and gain access to various resources, however last modified (on Onedrive/Sharepoint) is showing the app instead of an individual user.
I understand I can use Oauth and logon as individual users, capture a token and then do what I need under the context of that user, but, I need to do this server side where tasks run. Is there anyway to use admin approved delegation/impersonation from the app so that the users don't have to signin?
e.g. standard that works:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/my-site.office.com/drive/root:/file.txt:/content
Looking to add a user tag, but this doesn't work:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/user/{id-of-user}/sites/my-site.office.com/drive/root:/file.txt:/content`
After searching for ages, the closest I have read seems to be in here however, I was wondering if there was a standard way of doing this - I haven't been able to get the JWT part of this working (and not sure if this is even the correct thing I am looking for).

Authentication Process Get Azure AD group the user is a member of and do logic

Is there a way to get the Group the User is member of so we can process the authentication, or even throw exception so the token will not be created.
The reason we need groups is that we can not create OU in Azure AD whereas we could before in LDAP. We retrieved the distinguished name and therefore had very rich information about said user.
Lastly, we do see that you could create an OU on-premises but read that Graph API would not recognize it or could not retrieve it.
We are attempting to do logic within the SecurityTokenValidated stage of Authentication process and we break the process whenever we try to use:
string UPN = context.AuthenticationTicket.Identity.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.Name).Value
Is this because we are using MSAL?
The best approach for you to take here is to make use of the group claims capability of Azure AD. (And for get OUs. OUs are not represented in Azure AD at all.)
Dushyant Gill's blog post on this is relatively old, but still very much relevant: http://www.dushyantgill.com/blog/2014/12/10/authorization-cloud-applications-using-ad-groups/. In short, the process is:
Enable group claims for your application by setting the groupMembershipClaims property in your application. After setting this, when a user signs in to your application, the list of groups they are a member of will be included in the token (if the number of groups is smaller than the limit).
Update your application's authorization code to make use of the group membership claims (if present).
Update your application to query the Azure AD Graph API if the groups membership claim is not present (i.e. if the "overage" claim is present). This happens only when the user is a member of more than 150-250 groups. (Use the _claim_name and _claim_sources claims as indications that the Graph API needs to be called directly.)
As described in the documentation for Azure AD Graph API permissions, in order for your application to call the getMemberGroups method, the app must have the "Read all groups" permission (Groups.Read.All). This permission requires admin consent, but once consent has been granted, the request can be made using the signed-in user's access token.

Microsoft Graph api 403 access denied when reading other users

I'm creating an application in with angular and nodejs and I need to be able to read another user's list of events. Right now I am attempting to use "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/otherusername#companyurl.com/events" this gives me the 403 "Access is denied. Check credentials and try again.". However, if I use "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/myusername#companyurl.com/events" it works(as most would expect). My question is, why is it when I use outlook I can use scheduling assistant to see the events for "otherusername#companyurl.com" without being an admin but in my application I cannot see their events due to credentials?
The library I'm using to connect to microsoft graph api is https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-js
The delegated permissions I have set in azure are
View users' email address
Sign users in
Read user contacts
Have full access to user calendars
Read user calendars
Send mail as a user
Read directory data
Read all users' basic profiles
Sign in and read user profile
Application permissions (I understand these require admin)
Read calendars in all mailboxes
Graph api permission scopes
Any help is appreciated, thankyou.
Fugal - This is by design. You can use FindMeetingTimes API to schedule meetings with other users. This can be accomplished with just Calendar.Read permission. See http://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/api-reference/beta/api/user_findmeetingtimes for more info.
For you to view another user's calendar using /events endpoint, you need a special permission (something like Calendar.Read.Shared) that we are still in the process of adding. Once we add that, you will be able to use /Events to access any calendar that another user has explicitly shared with you. But if you want to just schedule meetings, FindMeetingTimes should be sufficient.

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