How to get users info list from Azure AD app by calling Microsoft Graph API from ASP.NET Core Web API?

Question

I have written this code - this API is supposed to return user's information list of my Azure AD app (has delegated permission - User.ReadBasic.All). I have done settings for

"TenantId": "","ClientId": "" & "ClientSecret": "" 

in appsettings.json file. But I am getting an "401 Unauthorized" error even if I sent the request with token from Postman.

namespace WebApplication4.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    [ApiController]
    public class UsersController : ControllerBase
    {
        private readonly ITokenAcquisition _tokenAcquisition;

        public UsersController(ITokenAcquisition tokenAcquisition)
        {
            _tokenAcquisition = tokenAcquisition;
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetUsers()
        {
            try
            {
                // Acquire the access token for Microsoft Graph
                var token = await _tokenAcquisition.GetAccessTokenForUserAsync(new[] { "User.ReadBasic.All", "User.Read" });

                // Create the GraphServiceClient with an authentication provider
                var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(new AuthProvider(token));

                var usersRequestBuilder = graphClient.Users;

                var users = await usersRequestBuilder
                    .GetAsync(requestConfiguration: request =>
                    {
                        request.QueryParameters.Select = new[] { "displayName", "userType", "mail" };
                    });

                return Ok(users);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError, "An error occurred while fetching users.");
            }
        }

        private class AuthProvider : IAuthenticationProvider
        {
            private readonly string _token;

            public AuthProvider(string token)
            {
                _token = token;
            }

            public async Task AuthenticateRequestAsync(RequestInformation request, Dictionary<string, object>? additionalAuthenticationContext = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
            {
                // Set the Authorization header
                request.Headers.Add("Authorization", $"Bearer {_token}");
                await Task.CompletedTask;
            }
        }
    }
}

I am attaching the image - This is how I've added token in request header.

I am also getting the correct token. But when I am sending the get request I am getting 401 Unauthorized. Instead I want the user info.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The error you are facing is due to not configuring the Scope in the appsettings.json.

I added the Scope as access_as_user in the Azuree AD app as shown below.

appsettings.json :

{
  "AzureAd": {
    "Instance": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/",
    "TenantId": "<tenantID>",
    "ClientId": "<clientID>",
    "Scopes": "access_as_user"
  },
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft.AspNetCore": "Warning"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "MicrosoftGraph": {
    "BaseUrl": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0"
  }
}

Below is the complete ASP.NET Web API code to authenticate and get a list of user information from an Azure AD app by calling the Microsoft Graph API.

UsersController.cs :

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Graph;
using Microsoft.Identity.Web;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;

namespace WebApplication5.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    [ApiController]
    public class UsersController : ControllerBase
    {
        private readonly ITokenAcquisition _tokenAcquisition;
        private readonly ILogger<UsersController> _logger;

        public UsersController(ITokenAcquisition tokenAcquisition, ILogger<UsersController> logger)
        {
            _tokenAcquisition = tokenAcquisition;
            _logger = logger;
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetUsers()
        {
            try
            {
                var token = await _tokenAcquisition.GetAccessTokenForUserAsync(new[] { "User.ReadBasic.All", "User.Read" });
                var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(new AuthProvider(token));

                var users = await graphClient.Users
                    .Request()
                    .Select(u => new { u.DisplayName, u.UserType, u.Mail })
                    .GetAsync();

                return Ok(users);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                _logger.LogError(ex, "An error occurred while fetching users.");
                return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError, "An error occurred while fetching users.");
            }
        }

        private class AuthProvider : IAuthenticationProvider
        {
            private readonly string _token;
            public AuthProvider(string token)
            {
                _token = token;
            }
            public async Task AuthenticateRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage request)
            {
                request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", _token);
                await Task.CompletedTask;
            }
        }
    }
}

Program.cs :

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer;
using Microsoft.Identity.Web;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
builder.Services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
    .AddMicrosoftIdentityWebApi(builder.Configuration.GetSection("AzureAd"))
        .EnableTokenAcquisitionToCallDownstreamApi()
            .AddMicrosoftGraph(builder.Configuration.GetSection("MicrosoftGraph"))
            .AddInMemoryTokenCaches();

builder.Services.AddControllers();
builder.Services.AddEndpointsApiExplorer();
builder.Services.AddSwaggerGen();
var app = builder.Build();
if (app.Environment.IsDevelopment())
{
    app.UseSwagger();
    app.UseSwaggerUI();
}
app.UseHttpsRedirection();
app.UseAuthentication();
app.UseAuthorization();
app.MapControllers();
app.Run();

I granted admin consent for User.ReadBasic.All and User.Read as shown below.

Postman Output :

In Postman, I configured the Authorization header with the following values.

Make sure to add the Scope as below in the Postman.

Scope : api://<clientID>/access_as_user

I added the below callback URL from Postman to the Azure AD app's Authentication settings as a Web URI.

https://oauth.pstmn.io/v1/callback

I successfully retrieved the user information list from the Azure AD app by calling the Microsoft Graph API in Postman, as shown below.