Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Last July Microsoft announced here they would be disabling basic authentication in EWS on October 13 2020 which is now a little over a year away. Given the amount of time that has passed since the announcement any line of business applications or third party applications that you use that had been using Basic authentication should have been modified or upgraded to support using oAuth. If this isn't the case the time to take action is now. When you need to migrate a .NET app or script you have using EWS and basic Authentication you have two Authentication libraries you can choose from ADAL - Azure AD Authentication Library (uses the v1 Azure AD Endpoint) MSAL - Microsoft Authentication Library (uses the v2 Microsoft Identity Platform Endpoint) the most common library you will come across in use is the ADAL libraries because its been around the longest, has good support across a number of languages and allows complex authentications scenarios with support for SAML etc. The ...

This is part 2 in my REST series in which we will look at AppOnly tokens. These are the Tokens you would look to use when you want to write an application or script that would access every mailbox in an Office365 Tenant.  For an Admin or DevOps person looking at what they might want to do with the new REST API this is useful when your looking to write something that will tweak a config setting on all Mailboxes to comply with a certain Organization policy (no matter how insane) or do some custom Item task that isn't supported in any of the Admin cmdlets. To simplify AppOnly tokens as much as I can they are an Oauth Access token that are requested using Certificate Authentication. Then depending on what Application permission scopes have been allowed for the app in Azure eg your script or app will be able to access that particular Mailbox data across all the Mailboxes within your tenant. In EWS if you understood how i...

This is part 2 of my MKR1000 article, in this previous post  I looked at sending a Message via EWS using Basic Authentication.  In this Post I'll look at using the new Outlook REST API  which requires using OAuth authentication to get an Access Token. The prerequisites for this sketch are the same as in the other post with the addition of the ArduinoJson library  https://github.com/bblanchon/ArduinoJson  which is used to parse the Authentication Results to extract the Access Token. Also the SSL certificates for the login.windows.net  and outlook.office365.com need to be uploaded to the devices using the wifi101 Firmware updater. To use Token Authentication you need to register an Application in Azure https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/add-common-consent-manually  with the Mail.Send permission. The application should be a Native Client app that use the Out of Band Callback urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob. You ...