Understanding the difference between application and delegated permissions from OAuth2 Authentication Flows perspective

It’s well documented in the Permissions and consent docs and the Developer Glossary page that there are 2 types of permissions for an access token: delegated permission and application permission. In simpler terms, delegated permission is the permission granted to a signed in user while application permission is the permission granted to an application. The main difference between the two is that the former requires a user to sign in…

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GUID Table for Windows Azure Active Directory Permissions

Introduction This blog is meant to help users who need to get the Windows Azure Active Directory Permissions (WAAD) Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) in order to create AAD Applications using the Microsoft Graph API, or for other reasons where they just need to get the GUID for a certain WAAD permission. For further information regarding AAD permissions please refer to the blog post : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aaddevsup/2018/05/21/finding-the-correct-permissions-for-a-microsoft-or-azure-active-directory-graph-call/   Note: That these GUIDs…

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Finding the Correct Permissions for a Microsoft or Azure Active Directory Graph Call

Introduction This post is to help define how one can find out which permissions are needed for a specific Graph API call. Assuming you want to have granular control over each AAD Application Registration, having the exact permissions required to do exactly what you need helps to secure your environment from users abusing permissions that you may have granted in excess. Whenever someone wants to utilize the Microsoft or AAD…

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