I'm trying to use the Office 365 api inside a Windows Service to link e-mails to in-house projects.
I've been able to authenticate myself using the Office 365 API documentation
Although I have some problems/questions.
First problem:
await outlookClient.Me.Folders["inbox"].Messages.ExecuteAsync();
Isn't working for me, I don't get any response, even after 5 min...
Another question is:
Is it possible to never ask for the office365 credentials when starting the program?
Because this is running in a windows Service.
Did anybody successfully implement this?
If so: Is it possible to get a full working example?
I've been trying different things now, but much examples are for asp.net of other where an authentication is always required.
I haven't done a service specifically, but it should work if you use the client credential auth flow.
That flow would give you the unattended scenario you want for a service. However, there does have to be consent at some point. The way it works with client credential flow is you would have a signup web page. An administrator from the Office 365 org would go that page and login and grant consent to your app. This would be a onetime thing. Your app would then be able to get a token silently that grants access to all mailboxes in the organization.
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I need help.
I need to create an app, which takes all events from different calendars from my company, and display them in computers in conferences rooms. This is created, works good. To authenticate I use Oauth 2.0 like google wants, but I tested it only on my computer. When the app was launched on the computer in the conference room, the app needed logging into google account, which surprised me, because I put my oauth 2.0 credentials into my code, so I thought that this would be enough.
How can I skip that part, to authenticate only from code level and not display Oauth popup message to user?
When you run your code locally you are authorizing it. If you are using the official Google api .net client library then it is storing your authorization credentials in the %appdata% folder on your machine. Once you move this to the computers in the conference rooms they have not been authorized and there for will require that you authorize them. So you should be able to just run it once on each machine and authorize it and it will be all set.
If you do however have a google workspace account, I would recommend you look into using a service account and configuring domain wide delegation this would stream line your process a bit.
The following example shows how to use a service account with domain wide deligation.
var credential = GoogleCredential.FromFile(PathToServiceAccountKeyFile)
.CreateWithUser("user#yourdomain.com") // delegate to user on workspace.
.CreateScoped(new[] {CalendarService.ScopeConstants.Calendar});
I am looking to integrate Gmail API in our .Net project (Both Windows & Web) so that user can send email or read users inbox, their list of folders (i.e. labels) and their respective mail to import in to our system.
During my initial research through google api documentation; Below are couple of questions come across:
For OAuth 2.0; OAuth credential needs to be created for type of application in google api console. I wanted to create wrapper around Gmail API (i.e. MyGmailAPIClass) so that same class can be shared between my windows & web projects along with common OAuth mechanism.
a. Do I need to create separate OAuth credential for Windows & Web and hence the OAuth implementation will differ based on type of application?
b. Can we use the same OAuth Credential for different types of application like windows, web or mobile apps? If yes; how can we achieve that?
I came across Service Account Credential stuff; Can we use that for application to access users email for sending and retrieving? How can we achieve that?
For Access and Refresh token; if we don’t store in some file or database; user consent screen will be prompted every time when user come to our application next time? I am not able to figure out valid use case for storing in file or database. The reason why I asked this because when In .net console sample; I turned off that mechanism after first successful sign-in when I again run the console sample again it will not show consent screen for granting permission?
Please suggest how should i proceed !! It would be good if someone can give any direction and also reference some working example.
I'm writing a desktop application that can access GMail via IMAP. But I'm not sure if I implemented OAuth correctly.
MailKit says I should use a Service Account (https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit/blob/master/FAQ.md#GMailOAuth2)
But Google says a Service Account should only be used if a Service wants to access it's own data, not the data of the user. Also I don't know how a different user can login in my application then.
I also found this tutorial and it's working for me (https://www.limilabs.com/blog/oauth2-gmail-imap-installed-applications)
But I don't know if it's a good practice. I can't hide the "ClientSecret" if I want do deploy my application. How to solve this? Also the user has to copy the auth key manually from the browser into the application.
Can someone suggest a quick, but state of the art solution? I'd like to build a Mail application and not an Oauth application ):
I am new to UWP and I am trying to make an app that includes sign in with Microsoft account. The problem is that I got very confused what API should I use and how to make the authentication.
After very long search I found that Microsoft have APIs and SDKs for everything - Outlook, OneDrive, Live, Office365, Microsoft Graph etc. But there is no clear documentation, what developer should use to authenticate a user and get his account details such as name and email.
It seems that the Live SDK could do the trick, but Microsoft state that this SDK is legacy and developers should use OndeDrive SDK. But OneDrive don't suit my needs, I can't get users email address and also I have to have developer account so I can build a sample app to test it. This is too much just for a test, isn't it?
After more research I found that Microsoft Graph could help, but it seems that it is only for business purposes or maybe I am wrong?
So in short what I try to achieve is making an app that let the user sign in with his Microsoft account. After successful authentication I need to get his account details so I can build him a profile in the app. And all of this I want to do it without having to make developer or business accounts.
Hope someone could help, becaouse the Microsoft documentation is very confusing.
Microsoft Graph does support the ability for you to sign in with a Microsoft Account, and then access the user's very basic profile and their personal consumer OneDrive and Outlook. Token acquisition is achieved through the new v2 endpoint (converged auth, that allows you to get a token for the signed in user, whether they are a consumer user through Microsoft Account or a commercial/business/school user through Azure AD).
I recommend taking a look at a couple of places. One place is https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/authorization/converged_auth and here on app registration and token acquisition: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-appmodel-v2-overview/ and here for get started for windows apps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-v2-devquickstarts-wpf/. NOTE: This last one uses a preview/experimental client library.
Hope this helps,
I am just starting out with a windows azure mobile services .net backend, and am running into so many headaches as a new programmer. I have gone into my azure mobile services account and downloaded the todoitems demo app (c# for .net backend). I then followed the tutorials regarding adding facebook authentication, but I am absolutely not pleased by this method, as it shuts down the app for a few seconds. As such, I set out determined to create a custom authentication login page which ties to my mobile backend.
I found this article and thought, "Great!" only to realize that I had no clue how to catch a user created account from a textbox and to pass it along to the public class RegistrationRequest. The example at the end of the link shows how to connect to a local machine - but I want it to connect to my actual database at the following location: https://mycustomapp.azure-mobile.net, return a token, and continueon.
What is frustrating is that I am able to obtain a facebook authentication token, as well as user information. BUT, I have no idea how to generate a windows azure mobile auth token so that the client may write/retrieve data from my azure table.
Essentially my question is this - using the above link, how in the world may I take a user's username and password from a textbox, run it through the RegistrationRequest, and not have to pop advil on this? Do I need to pass my facebook token? I assume not?
I am also not using a facebook SDK or anything like that - simply put, I am using the above site's code trying to get an auth token from my azure mobile services, despite having one from facebook already, to authenticate a user against my azure mobile services data table.
If you already have a FB token, the easiest way to login to your mobile service is by using the FB token, then you don't need to make a custom UI/etc.
This can be done by calling
var token = new JObject();
token.Add("access_token", "access_token_value");
await client.LoginAsync(MobileServiceAuthenticationProvider.Facebook, token);
see: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-windows-dotnet-how-to-use-client-library/#authentication, Client Flow for more
if you want to login to your service with a Facebook account, you do not need to implement a custom authentication and to capture user name and password in your own textbox controls.
You should be able to use MobileServiceClient.LoginAsync() and pass as parameters the provider that you want to use. Check this article fro more information.