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Using MSAL in the EWS Managed API and doing auto token expiration and renewal in Delegate and Client Credential Azure oAuth Flows

With the full depreciation of Basic Authentication around the corner I've put together a Github doc to show one implementation of using MSAL with the EWS Managed API that supports both Hybrid Modern Authentication and token caching and refresh. It can be found  https://github.com/gscales/EWS-BasicToOAuth-Info/blob/main/EWA%20Managed%20API%20MASL%20Token%20Refresh.md
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Using the MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) in EWS with Office365

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 ...
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