Access Required Response from Azure Active Directory

Question

Going by the code provided by Microsoft (I'm assuming), I am unable to query my Azure Active Directory. Every time I call the following, I get a response of {Authorization Required.} :

ActiveDirectoryClient client = AuthenticationHelper.GetActiveDirectoryClient();
IPagedCollection<IUser> pagedCollection = await client.Users.ExecuteAsync();

I'm new to Azure Active Directory and I'm new to the Graph and thought that the samples provided would function. They do not and I am hoping someone here can tell me either what is wrong with the code or how do I grant myself authorization to my own directory? I thought the AccessKey would be the authentication method, but apparently that's useless as it's not used in their examples.

Answer 1

Basically, to call the REST which protected by Azure AD which support OAuth2.0 to authorize the third-party application, we need to pass a bearer token.

And to go through the code sample, please ensure that you followed the steps list by the README.md.

Note: there is something not clear in the README.md about config the permission. The code sample is using the Azure AD Graph instead of Microsoft Graph, we need to choose the Windows Azure Active Directory instead of Microsoft Graph . And I have report this issue here .

You can see that there is a static filed named token in class AuthenticationHelper which will be set the value when the users sign-in using the code in Startup.Auth.cs like below:( not using cert)

// Create a Client Credential Using an Application Key
ClientCredential credential = new ClientCredential(clientId, appKey);
string userObjectID = context.AuthenticationTicket.Identity.FindFirst(
    "http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/objectidentifier").Value;

AuthenticationContext authContext = new AuthenticationContext(Authority, new NaiveSessionCache(userObjectID));
AuthenticationResult result = authContext.AcquireTokenByAuthorizationCode(
                                    code, new Uri(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path)), credential, graphResourceId);

AuthenticationHelper.token = result.AccessToken;

And here is the detail progress to acquire the token via the OAuth 2.0 code grant flow:

More detail about this flow you can refer here .