Read OneDrive files using Microsoft graph api - azure-active-directory

I'm trying to access my OneDrive (personal account) files using the Microsoft Graph API but I can't get it to work. I have read for days now whithout luck.
I'm using the "Client Credentials Flow". I have created an application in the Application Registration Portal and I have set application permissions. It works fine to get a token but when I try to read the root of OneDrive using this token it says "Access Denied", "Either scp or roles claim need to be present in the token.". This happens when I use the v2.0 version to get the token and then the v1.0 version to access OneDrive.
I.e. I use this URL to get the token:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token
and this URL to get the OneDrive root:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drive/root?$expand=thumbnails,children($expand=thumbnails)
It works fine when I do the "Authorization Code Flow".
What can be the problem?

For personal accounts and data associated to personal accounts (like a personal OneDrive), only delegated (authorization code flow) is supported. Client credential flow is not supported here. Client credential flow is only supported for commercial (Azure AD) scenarios.
Do you have a particular scenario in mind as to why you need to use client credentials flow (versus authorization code flow) against personal OneDrive?
Hope this helps,

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Office-Addin Single Sign On and API Scopes

The Office Addin for Excel provides the method:
OfficeRuntime.auth.getAccessToken(OfficeRuneTime.authOptions)
to call the Azure Active Directory, log in the user and gain access to the users profile. The method brings up a dialog box asking the users consent for the Office App to access their profile. The consent box also includes the grants to my Web App (Angular web site that runs in the Excel Taskpane) and includes the words "If you accept, will also have access to your user profile information"
All good. But my Web App communicates with my API, which requires an additional granting of consent for my API to access the users profile.
Is there any way to cause the dialog box invoked by 'getAcccessToken' to also grant permission to my API?
When I login using MSAL as a fallback method (not getAccessToken(), but using an excel dialog box with MSAL configured as per the various Microsoft Walkthoughts), the consent box DOES include both my WebApp and my WebAPI. And authentication works correctly.
I note that the Manifest file has a tag. I had hoped that adding the Scope to my API in here would cause the Office-Addin to request consent to it, but no banana, it does nothing.
Any Ideas?
I do note that getAccessToken() deliberately does not return an access token to MS Graph, with the Microsoft Documentation citing 'security concerns', and such access to Graph must be via Server Side Code using the On-Behalf-Of flow, perhaps similar reasoning does not permit me to gain consent to any API using getAccessToken(), but what then are these section in the manifest file for? I have really struggled to get SSO working with Office Addins, there are so many nuances and unexpected behaviours.
The getAccessToken method calls the Azure Active Directory V 2.0 endpoint to get an access token to your add-in's web application. That enables add-ins to identify users. Server-side code can use this token to access Microsoft Graph for the add-in's web application by using the "on behalf of" OAuth flow. This API requires a single sign-on configuration that bridges the add-in to an Azure application. Office users sign-in with Organizational Accounts and Microsoft Accounts. Microsoft Azure returns tokens intended for both user account types to access resources in the Microsoft Graph. Read more about that in the Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow article.
In answer to my own question,
It is NOT possible to cause the dialog box invoked by 'getAcccessToken' to also grant permission to my API
I have written a lengthy response to this in my answer to this question
Office-Addin MSAL Single Sign In SSO: How to Refresh the Access Token?

How to authenticate to personal OneDrive with Graph REST API

I'm trying to write an R package to let users access the files in their OneDrive folders from R. The API is Microsoft Graph.
Everything is working fine with OneDrive for Business (which is basically SharePoint under the hood, as I understand it). However, I can't get it to work with personal OneDrive.
Custom app registration, consumers authorization endpoint
When I use an app registration under my own AAD tenant, I get the following error from the consumers AAD authorization endpoint:
AADSTS50020: User account 'xxxxx#gmail.com' from identity provider 'live.com' does not exist in tenant 'Consumers' and cannot access the application 'd44a05d5-c6a5-4bbb-82d2-443123722380'(AzureRtest_cli) in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account.
Custom app registration, 9188040d-6c67-4c5b-b112-36a304b66dad endpoint
From this page it appears that the token should be for the tenant 9188040d-6c67-4c5b-b112-36a304b66dad instead of the generic consumers. When I tried that, I obtained a seemingly valid token. However, talking to the https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0/drive endpoint results in a cryptic 401 error.
Azure CLI app registration, consumers endpoint
As a hack, I tried piggybacking off the Azure CLI's app registration. This fails with
AADSTS65002: Consent between first party application '04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46' and first party resource '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000' must be configured via preauthorization. Visit https://identitydocs.azurewebsites.net/static/aad/preauthorization.html for details
Azure CLI app registration, 9188040d-6c67-4c5b-b112-36a304b66dad endpoint
Finally, I tried using the CLI app registration with this tenant, which also failed:
unauthorized_client: The client does not exist or is not enabled for consumers. If you are the application developer, configure a new application through the App Registrations in the Azure Portal at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2083908.
What are the exact steps I need to do to get to my personal OneDrive?
It turns out I had a bug in my code: I was using the tenant consumers.onmicrosoft.com instead of consumers. The process to communicate with Graph for personal OneDrive that worked for me was:
Use the authorization code flow as described here, with the following specs:
tenant: consumers
client id: for my custom app registration
scope: https://graph.microsoft.com/{scope} offline_access openid where the scope is one of those listed here
Use the API endpoint https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0.
With regard to that last point, note that the documentation here is incorrect or at least outdated, as it still gives https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0 as the endpoint for personal OneDrive requests.

Authentication flow Service to Service Microsoft Graph and Bookings API

I am building a custom mobile application that has a client, custom backend server (I'm building) and interacts with numerous other api's. One of these api's is Microsoft bookings.
The problem I'm facing is I need to be authenticated via server to server, with a shared client secret. I'm aware of the numerous docs from MS but have yet to find a solution. I'm wondering if Server to server is even possible with Bookings.
I am able to get an access_token server to server with these permissions. (I have granted 'all permissions' to this app in Azure AD already).
"roles": [
"Calls.JoinGroupCall.All",
"OnlineMeetings.Read.All",
"OnlineMeetings.ReadWrite.All",
"Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy",
"Calendars.Read",
"People.Read.All",
"Application.ReadWrite.All",
"Calls.InitiateGroupCall.All",
"Directory.ReadWrite.All",
"Calls.JoinGroupCallAsGuest.All",
"Sites.Read.All",
"Sites.ReadWrite.All",
"Sites.Manage.All",
"Files.ReadWrite.All",
"Directory.Read.All",
"User.Read.All",
"Calendars.ReadWrite",
"Mail.Send",
"ProgramControl.Read.All",
"ProgramControl.ReadWrite.All",
"Calls.Initiate.All"
],
Those are the permissions from the decoded token. When I go to make calls to the Bookings api I receive 401.
I can however use this token to access different graph endpoints no problem.
I will note, that I am able to make successful calls to the bookings api through Graph Explorer with my account, not related to this 'Application in Azure AD'.
Does this resource in Azure AD need a bookings License?
Is this even possible S2S?
Are there any other ways to bypass this without user credentials?
Thanks.
So I spent over a week trying to solve this problem due to the MS doc nightmare. I'm only posting to help others!
Bookings doesn't support service to service yet. So if you wan't to implement this without a user physically signing in, IE. If you have a dedicated booking admin account credentials you have to hard code the clients credentials.
I found my answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/49814924/9105626
Microsoft Bookings API doesn't seem to support "Application Permissions" so far.
Only permissions available are "Delegated Permissions", which means your token has to be acquired with the context of a signed-in user.
Here are two Microsoft documentation sources that I came across:
Microsoft Graph Permissions Reference - Please look at the "Bookings Permissions" section.
Microsoft Bookings Samples
I know you mention Server to Server authentication using a client secret. AFAIK, that case will NOT work directly, because clientId and clientSecret only provide an application's identity (which can't be assigned any permissions because there are no relevant application permissions available for this API).
Just in case you can have some User context involved, here is code from bookings samples link above, to acquire the token in a Native application using ADAL
var authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext("https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/");
var authenticationResult = await authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(
"https://graph.microsoft.com/",
clientApplication_ClientId,
clientApplication_RedirectUri,
new PlatformParameters(PromptBehavior.RefreshSession));
// The results of this call are sent as the Authorization header of each HTTPS request to Graph.
var authorizationHeader = authenticationResult.CreateAuthorizationHeader();
Suggestions on ways to make this scenario work
On Behalf Of Flow
Your mobile application client could prompt a user for credentials to act on Behalf of the user and call your backend web API, which in turn calls the downstream API like Bookings API. This is called Service to Service Calls on behalf of the User
Here is a code sample which shows exactly this with a native application (WPF) and an SPA. In your case, just replace the WPF application with your mobile client application for understanding purposes and rest of the scenario becomes very similar.
Calling a downstream web API from a web API using Azure AD
ROPC Grant (Not Recommended)
Resource Owner Password Credentials grant can help as your application will have end user password available to it, but it has multiple issues and any security guidance will discourage you from using it.
ROPC opens up security risks, doesn't follow best practices and has functionality issues as well. ROPC doesn't work with MFA enabled users as well as federated authentication users.
For all practical purposes, you should avoid ROPC as long as possible. You can find the same recommendation in ADAL documentation itself and multiple other documentations from Microsoft or even generally about OAuth 2.0.

Auto-create user/drive using delegated permissions and Microsoft Graph

I am using the acquireUserCode, acquireTokenWithDeviceCode flow found in adal-node library to authenticate my application and user. This process works successfully and I am then able to make MS Graph calls with the returned token. Where I am stuck is using the /users/{id}/drive endpoint. The docs state:
If a user's OneDrive is not provisioned but the user has a license to use OneDrive, this request will automatically provision the user's drive, when using delegated authentication.
My understanding is that the device code is a form of delegated permissions but the drive is not being created. Instead I get a 404 response. The user is properly licensed. In testing I have granted all graph delegated permissions to the application registration and "granted" them through the UI. Any pointers where in the chain I should be looking if this scenario is supported? Thanks!

Programmatic (API calls) User Authentication using Azure AD B2C instead of login.microsoftoneline.com form

New to Azure AD... So please don't be too harsh if this is off target. :-)
Technology Stack - Latest Angular 2 with C# Middle tier and latest .Net Framework.
Ideally, What we want to do is use Azure AD B2C to store user credentials and to do the authentication - but we want our 'own' forms on our site to do the login Forms capture and logging - then pass the credentials through an API (REST?) Call (using MS Graph SDK?) to Azure AD B2C and then check the call return for the Authorization content message.
Couple of reasons - control of the application flow, Logging and the "flickering of the URL" (i.e. going from our site URL to login.microsoft... URL and then back to our sites URL).
Is this doable without doing a hack?
Thank you in advance for your help and patience!
You are looking for the "Resource Owner Password Credentials".
This is not currently supported for Azure AD B2C, but you can give user feedback to the B2C team that you want this through the Azure Feedback Forum: Add support for Resource Owner Password Credentials flow in Azure AD B2C and headless authentication in Microsoft Authentication Library
You should also see updates at that location if and when they implement this feature.
The resource owner password credentials flow is now in preview.
In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2C, the following options are
supported:
Native Client: User interaction during authentication happens when
code runs on a user-side device. The device can be a mobile
application that's running in a native operating system, such as
Android, or running in a browser, such as JavaScript.
Public client flow: Only user credentials, gathered by an application, are sent in
the API call. The credentials of the application are not sent.
Add new claims: The ID token contents can be changed to add new claims.
The following flows are not supported:
Server-to-server: The identity protection system needs a reliable IP
address gathered from the caller (the native client) as part of the
interaction. In a server-side API call, only the server’s IP address
is used. If a dynamic threshold of failed authentications is exceeded,
the identity protection system may identify a repeated IP address as
an attacker.
Confidential client flow: The application client ID is
validated, but the application secret is not validated.
From here.
Note that one disadvantage of doing what you're requesting is precisely that you can do "login forms capture and logging", so your application has a chance to see the credentials and perhaps take copies of them; thus your users have to trust you to behave.
The normal web-based flow means that your application doesn't need to be trusted; it never even sees the password at all.

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