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How to impersonate another user using the web API?
Impersonation involves two different user accounts: one user account (A) is used when executing code to perform some task on behalf of another user (B). User account (A) needs the prvActOnBehalfOfAnotherUser privilege, which is included in the Delegate security role.
Is there a way to impersonate a user?
In other words, user (A) is allowed to do something if and only if user (A) and the impersonated user (B) have the privilege necessary for the action. There are two ways you can impersonate a user, both of which are made possible by passing in a header with the corresponding user id.
How is impersonation used in Microsoft Dataverse?
Impersonation is used to execute business logic (code) on behalf of another Microsoft Dataverse user to provide a desired feature or service using the appropriate role and object-based security of that impersonated user.
How to find the impersonator of an entity?
When an operation such as creating an entity is performed using impersonation, the user who actually performed the operation can be found by querying the record including the createdonbehalfby single-valued navigation property. A corresponding modifiedonbehalfby single-valued navigation property is available for operations that update the entity.
How to call Microsoft Graph on behalf of a user?
You can call Microsoft Graph on behalf of a user from the following kinds of apps: Back-end Web APIs: For example, in scenarios where a client app, like a native app, implements functionality in a Web API back end. With the Microsoft identity platform endpoint, both the client app and the back-end Web API must have the same Application ID.
How to use OAuth on behalf of flow?
Conceptual Documentation on Microsoft Docs: Your scenario exactly matches the OAuth 2.0 on-behalf-of flow as explained on Microsoft Docs for Azure AD here Service-to-service calls that use delegated user identity in the On-Behalf-Of flow
How to get access on behalf of a user?
If the user has not consented to any of those permissions and if an administrator has not previously consented on behalf of all users in the organization, they will be asked to consent to the required permissions. The following is an example of the consent dialog box presented for a Microsoft account user.