What is inside the Microsoft identity platform token?
For details on what’s inside the access token, clients should use the token response data that’s returned with the access token to your client. When your client requests an access token, the Microsoft identity platform also returns some metadata about the access token for your app’s consumption.
How is an access token generated in SharePoint?
This access token is generated if the add-in is making a call to SharePoint by using the user+add-in policy.
Can a client communicate with a CMG with a token?
Even with a site token, clients can’t communicate with a CMG if client settings don’t allow it. For more information, see About client settings: Cloud services. This method requires the client to first register with the management point on the internal network. Client registration typically happens right after installation.
Why do resources always own their access tokens?
This is why a resource setting accessTokenAcceptedVersion to 2 means that a client calling the v1.0 endpoint to get a token for that API will receive a v2.0 access token. Resources always own their tokens (those with their aud claim) and are the only applications that can change their token details.
How to get access token in REST API?
All the research i did points mostly to articles where the REST api is called to get access token by using connected app credentials, but all of these involve passing password as an attribute to get the access token.
Which is the application ID of the client using the token?
The application ID of the client using the token. The application can act as itself or on behalf of a user. The application ID typically represents an application object, but it can also represent a service principal object in Azure AD. Only present in v2.0 tokens, a replacement for appid. The application ID of the client using the token.
What happens when a Microsoft access token expires?
When the access token expires, the client must use the refresh token to (usually silently) acquire a new refresh token and access token. You can adjust the lifetime of an access token to control how often the client application expires the application session, and how often it requires the user to re-authenticate (either silently or interactively).