I have created an App Registration that exposes an API and a scope.
I then create a frontend app/client with another App Registration and I can add my own API as delegated permission and ask Azure AD for a token to the API on behalf of me using normal OAuth flows.
Let's say a 3 client needs access to the API but not as a given user but as the application itself. In the UI of Azure AD, there are no "Application Permissions" for my own API when adding this 3rd API and try to give it access to an API. What is the equivalent of this and how do I set it up?
I have an older article that shows you how to do it through the manifest.
https://joonasw.net/view/defining-permissions-and-roles-in-aad
Currently there is no UI for defining app permissions, so you'll have to do it through the manifest or with PowerShell.
Essentially you need to define an appRole with an allowed member type of Application.
That is an app permission that can then be assigned to apps.
It will appear in the roles claim in the token.
{
"appRoles": [
{
"allowedMemberTypes": [
"Application"
],
"displayName": "Read all todo items",
"id": "f8d39977-e31e-460b-b92c-9bef51d14f98",
"isEnabled": true,
"description": "Allow the application to read all todo items as itself.",
"value": "Todo.Read.All"
}
]
}
I have an API App registered under Azure Active Directory -> App Registrations. This API App is exposing endpoints which will be accessed by clients from within the organization. The clients are not users but background services who will accessing the endpoints.
When I am trying to grant API Permission for the clients to access the API App I see the Application Permission as disabled/greyed out. Do I need to do something different when setting the API Permissions.
Please see the attached picture.
Has anyone come across this issue or am I doing something silly. Azure Admin in our organization told me he can't help with this as he hasn't see anything like this before.
Most probably you haven't defined any roles (i.e. Application Permissions) for your app registration and hence when you try to add permissions for the client application you only see an option for Delegated Permissions.
How to define Roles/Application Permissions
Go to Azure Portal > Azure AD > App Registrations > Registration for your API application > Manifest
Find the "appRoles" collection in Manifest JSON and if it's empty, add your own appRoles here. Example:
"appRoles": [
{
"allowedMemberTypes": [
"Application"
],
"description": "Apps that have this role have the ability to invoke my API",
"displayName": "Can invoke my API",
"id": "fc803414-3c61-4ebc-a5e5-cd1675c14bbb",
"isEnabled": true,
"lang": null,
"origin": "Application",
"value": "MyAPIValidClient"
}
]
Notice that I have kept "allowedMemberTypes" as "Application" so that it can only be used as Application Permission. Other possibility is to have "User" as the allowedMemberType, but that is for a different use case when you want to assign roles to users and that's not what you're looking for.
Now if you go to the client application registration to which you want to grant this role (Application Permission), you should be able to see "Application Permissions" as enabled.
You should also be able to see the Application Permission "MyAPIValidClient" with it's description available to be selected. Now I have defined only one Application Permission in example above, but as you can see it's an array, so you can define multiple ones as well. Just make sure you generate new GUID's to be assigend as "id" for each Application Permission.
I have a requirement to auto provision O365 groups in desired Geo location (i.e CAN, Default being EU), I'm using AAD app permissions to authenticate to Graph API. Need help in achieving this.
I'm aware that the teams created using delegated permission will be created in the regions specific to the delegated user and found the "preferredDataLocation" property of the graph group type is updated as that of the user.
I tried creating group with this property set to desired location code(i.e CAN) with application permission and I get the below error.
Request Body:
{
"description": "Muti-Geo Graph API",
"displayName": "Teams Multi-Geo Graph API",
"groupTypes": [
"Unified"
],
"mailEnabled": true,
"mailNickname": "TeamsMultiGeoGraphAPI",
"securityEnabled": false,
"owners#odata.bind": [
"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/XXXXXX"
],
"preferredDataLocation":"CAN"
}
Response:
"code": "Authorization_RequestDenied",
"message": "The requesting user is not authorized to set group preferred data location."
Please let me know if there is any way I can create O365 groups in desired geo location.
Note: Multi-Geo is enabled and CAN region is available in the tenant.
I had the same issue. Adding the Directory.ReadWrite.All to the list of permissions of my Azure AD App solved the issue.
Here are the list of the required permissions to perform this API call:
Group.Create, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Documentation: Here.
I created admin console in the User interface where admin can perform all the operations such create, delete the user, assign applications to user and remove application access to users from the user interface
I tired to remove application access to the users from the User Interface by using Microsoft graph API and Azure AD graph api
i used following azure AD graph api
https://graph.windows.net/tenantid/users/{userId}/appRoleAssignments/{appId}?api-version=1.6
but it is showing the error when i tested in the postman "Invalid resource identifier for EntitlementGrant."
Idont know what to do can anyone help me about these error and how to resolve these problem.
You may be getting this error because you are trying to delete the application access using AppId of the application. Please make sure to use "AssignmentID" from Azure Portal which is unique ID of the specific role assignment and links the user/group and the service principal object.
Go to Azure Active Directory > Users > Select specific User > Applications > Select any application to navigate to "Assignment Details" blade.
See screenshot below -
This unique id is also available as "ObjectID" if querying application role assignments through Graph API -
https://graph.windows.net/{TenantID}/users/{UserID}/appRoleAssignments
Here is the sample output of the above API call.
"odata.metadata": "https://graph.windows.net/sasharms.onmicrosoft.com/$metadata#directoryObjects/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.AppRoleAssignment",
"value": [
{
"odata.type": "Microsoft.DirectoryServices.AppRoleAssignment",
"objectType": "AppRoleAssignment",
"objectId": "r7rDMrnDo0uCuwnosRwwzuziiF5B8s9FnsotYya5DMU",
"deletionTimestamp": null,
"creationTimestamp": "2018-05-10T14:10:49.8197813Z",
"id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"principalDisplayName": "SaurabhSharma",
"principalId": "32c3baaf-c3b9-4ba3-82bb-09e8b11c30ce",
"principalType": "User",
"resourceDisplayName": "WebAppOpenIdGraphApi",
"resourceId": "90658e39-2559-48fb-a27a-5e50cca94288"
}
This Id is ideally used for performing various operations against the application using any programmatic interfaces like PowerShell and Graph APIs.
I am trying to add required permissions to an Azure AD application. I already know how to replicate information from a downloaded manifest through a PATCH REST call, e.g.
"requiredResourceAccess": [
{
"resourceAppId": "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
"resourceAccess": [
{
"id": "7b9103a5-4610-446b-9670-80643382c1fa",
"type": "Scope"
},
{
"id": "5df07973-7d5d-46ed-9847-1271055cbd51",
"type": "Scope"
}
]
}
]
As explained by Christer Ljung on his blog http://www.redbaronofazure.com/?page_id=181.
But the mystery remains how I can "convert" human-readable scopes such as Mail.Read to these obscure guids. I have read the following blog of Sahil Malik's at http://blah.winsmarts.com/2015-1-Programmatically_register_native_apps_in_Azure_AD_or_Office_365.aspx that explains how to get a list of available guids for a particular ServicePrincipal. E.g. through an http get to https://graph.windows.net/<tenant-id>/servicePrincipals()?api-version=1.6&$filter=appId%20eq%20'00000002-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000'> (Exchange) but when I try to get the list of available scopes of ServicePrincipal 00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000 (I believe the one for Graph API) the return value is just empty.
Interestingly, with Fiddler I was able to capture an http post request which contains all the guids when adding the permissions through Azure Portal.
Anyone any clue how I can do this programmatically?
After investigation, I discover a way to get permission guid using azure-cli. Share here in case anyone is finding this:
get all permisson and their GUID of a certain service principal by display-name, app-id or object-id. (Note that display-name is not unique and can maps multiple service principal)
$ az ad sp list --filter "displayName eq 'Microsoft Graph'" --query '[].oauth2Permissions[].{Value:value, Id:id, UserConsentDisplayName:userConsentDisplayName}' -o table
Value Id UserConsentDisplayName
------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ServiceHealth.Read.All 55896846-df78-47a7-aa94-8d3d4442ca7f Read service health
ServiceMessage.Read.All eda39fa6-f8cf-4c3c-a909-432c683e4c9b Read service messages
TermStore.ReadWrite.All 6c37c71d-f50f-4bff-8fd3-8a41da390140 Read and write term store data
TermStore.Read.All 297f747b-0005-475b-8fef-c890f5152b38 Read term store data
TeamMember.ReadWriteNonOwnerRole.All 2104a4db-3a2f-4ea0-9dba-143d457dc666 Add and remove members with non-owner role for all teams
Team.Create 7825d5d6-6049-4ce7-bdf6-3b8d53f4bcd0 Create teams
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteForUser 093f8818-d05f-49b8-95bc-9d2a73e9a43c Manage your installed Teams apps
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteSelfForUser 207e0cb1-3ce7-4922-b991-5a760c346ebc Allow the Teams app to manage itself for you
...
$ az ad sp list --filter "appId eq '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000'" --query '[].oauth2Permissions[].{Value:value, Id:id, UserConsentDisplayName:userConsentDisplayName}' -o table | head
Value Id UserConsentDisplayName
------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ServiceHealth.Read.All 55896846-df78-47a7-aa94-8d3d4442ca7f Read service health
ServiceMessage.Read.All eda39fa6-f8cf-4c3c-a909-432c683e4c9b Read service messages
TermStore.ReadWrite.All 6c37c71d-f50f-4bff-8fd3-8a41da390140 Read and write term store data
TermStore.Read.All 297f747b-0005-475b-8fef-c890f5152b38 Read term store data
TeamMember.ReadWriteNonOwnerRole.All 2104a4db-3a2f-4ea0-9dba-143d457dc666 Add and remove members with non-owner role for all teams
Team.Create 7825d5d6-6049-4ce7-bdf6-3b8d53f4bcd0 Create teams
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteForUser 093f8818-d05f-49b8-95bc-9d2a73e9a43c Manage your installed Teams apps
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteSelfForUser 207e0cb1-3ce7-4922-b991-5a760c346ebc Allow the Teams app to manage itself for you
...
Run the below command to get full information of certain service principal including its oauth2Permissions and servicePrincipalNames, etc.
az ad sp show --id 00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000 >microsoft_graph_permission_list.json
# microsoft_graph_permission_list.json
{
...
"appDisplayName": "Microsoft Graph",
"appId": "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
"objectId": "b19d498e-6687-4156-869a-2e8a95a9d659",
"servicePrincipalNames": [
"https://dod-graph.microsoft.us",
"https://graph.microsoft.com/",
"https://graph.microsoft.us",
"00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000/ags.windows.net",
"00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
"https://canary.graph.microsoft.com",
"https://graph.microsoft.com",
"https://ags.windows.net"
],
"appRoles": [...],
"oauth2Permissions": [
{
"adminConsentDescription": "Allows the app to read and write the full set of profile properties, reports, and managers of other users in your organization, on behalf of the signed-in user.",
"adminConsentDisplayName": "Read and write all users' full profiles",
"id": "204e0828-b5ca-4ad8-b9f3-f32a958e7cc4",
"isEnabled": true,
"type": "Admin",
"userConsentDescription": "Allows the app to read and write the full set of profile properties, reports, and managers of other users in your organization, on your behalf.",
"userConsentDisplayName": "Read and write all users' full profiles",
"value": "User.ReadWrite.All"
},
{
"adminConsentDescription": "Allows the app to read the full set of profile properties, reports, and managers of other users in your organization, on behalf of the signed-in user.",
"adminConsentDisplayName": "Read all users' full profiles",
"id": "a154be20-db9c-4678-8ab7-66f6cc099a59",
"isEnabled": true,
"type": "Admin",
"userConsentDescription": "Allows the app to read the full set of profile properties, reports, and managers of other users in your organization, on your behalf.",
"userConsentDisplayName": "Read all users' full profiles",
"value": "User.Read.All"
},
...
]
...
}
Few things to say about this topic.
First, it is important to note that all of the OAuth2Permission Scopes are registered on the main Application Object in the developer's tenant. Thus, in general, you would not have access to that information, since it would be in a tenant where you are not a user. So as an external developer, these permission scopes are not discoverable via our APIs.
Second, you are able to see that the Azure Portal has access to this information because it has elevated access to query the OAuth2Permissions for all resources in all tenants. This is how our UX is able to populate all the permissions for all the various external and internal resources that you want to use in your tenant. The portal will first check which service principals are in your tenant (service principals get provisioned most commonly once you consent to use the application), then it will look up the Application Object that corresponds to that service principal, and find all the permission scopes. This behavior will hopefully allow you to only see the resource applications which are relevant to you, rather than populating your screen with all possible resources.
Finally, moving forward we are looking to take a step back from having to statically register permissions that clients require to call resource applications. Instead we will be pushing a new Incremental and Dynamic Consent framework. You will note that here that we are taking a dependency on the scope names, rather than the ObjectID GUIDs of those permissions as we did in the past. But still, I agree with you in general that the discoverability of the scopes that resources expose is very heavily dependent their own public documentation. I imagine in the future there might be an endpoint which exposes all the scopes available on a particular resource, but I know of no such work to do this in the near future.
Let me know if this helps!