In 2021 Microsoft implemented “Sites.Selected” Graph API permissions to allow application access (without a signed in user) to specific sites (entire site only). In 2024 Microsoft implemented granular access – to specific list/libraries, as well as to specific documents/files and list items. Now name convention is *.SelectedOperations.Selected. Permissions come in two flavors – delegated and […]
Below is how I authenticate and call Microsoft Graph API to work with SharePoint from Python application. Plain no MSAL or Azure libraries used: secrets is a Python file where I assign client secret to variable clientSc (so my secret is not shared on github). This is ok for demo purposes but generally, you should […]
There is a Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module provided by Microsoft which simplifies usage of Microsoft Graph API. Below is how to authenticate to MS Graph and how to search within SharePoint and Teams Microsoft 365 content using Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module. Authentication Interactive authentication code sample: For daemon app authentication we need a certificate configured in Azure […]
Microsoft Graph API allows you to work with all the Microsoft 365 content – including search through Exchange e-mail messages, Yammer (Viva Engage) and Teams chat messages and surely OneDrive and SharePoint content (please refer to the original doc). Let me focus on searching in SharePoint Online and OD here but you can use the […]
Microsoft Graph API allows you to work with all the Microsoft 365 content – including search through Exchange e-mail messages, Yammer (Viva Engage) and Teams chat messages and surely OneDrive and SharePoint content (please refer to the MS’s original doc). After we got a registered Azure app configured correctly, including Authentication and API permissions provided […]
Being authenticated to Microsoft 365 tenant means Microsoft 365 knows who is trying to get access. To actually be able read/write or manage resource, your app must be Authorized to this resource. For details – pls refer to MS authorization and Microsoft Graph API permissions. But again, in short in our case that means we […]
Before we can make search call to Microsoft 365 in our code – we need to be authenticated. There are many kinds of authentication flows Microsoft supports. For more details – please refer to Microsoft Identity Platform documentation but in short – there are two kind of authentications – as current user and as daemon […]
Why do we need to implement search in our applications? Use-cases for search on behalf of current user Along with the usual ones – where you just need your app to search for some data and bring it to user – there is one different scenario I’d like to share: You need to quickly detect […]