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SharePoint Online REST API Authentication In POSTMAN

Answering my own question in case it helps somebody. As mentioned in comment by @SharePointer you need to register an app in Azure AD in order to authenticate against it. That app that you register ...
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SharePoint Online REST API Authentication In POSTMAN

I've successfully achieved it using this tutorial. Sharepoint configuration part Register a new app by following https://YourTenant.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx link generating Client ...
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Sharepoint authentication without CSOM, JS or 3rd party dlls

Your code needs two changes to work with both SharePoint On-Prem and SharePoint Online. First, change the type of the second parameter from NetworkCredential to ICredentials. Second, you need to add ...
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SharePoint Online REST API Authentication In POSTMAN

Just adding this here since the Azure Portal is slightly different now. Login to Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com for your O365 Tenant Either use the Search at the top of the page for App ...
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SharePoint Setup Account (SP_Install) really necessary?

Short answer, no. You don't need it. It's just a super, no bars account that all the rest of the accounts' permissions are designated from. As part of the "best practice" its one of those ...
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Connect to Sharepoint Online REST API using Java

Here is a demo for your reference, We access SharePoint online and use REST API to upload a file in JAVA. 1.Get the security token from Microsoft authentication portal: public String ...
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The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden

if you are trying to run it using network credential try the below code clientContext.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials; Also try adding headers context....
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Authenticating to Office 365 vNext with Multi-Factor Authentication enabled

I was able to find a solution for this by decompiling the CSOM and watching the exchange via Fiddler. *If someone with 300+ reputation can add a "vNext" tag that would be appreciated. It's really ...
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SharePoint Setup Account (SP_Install) really necessary?

The sp_install user should only be used to execute the base/initial installation of SharePoint. The sp_farm account is used after the setup in the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. And after that all ...
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SharePoint AD FS Relying Trust Endpoint issues

Multiple endpoints in the same relying trust is possible if the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer has UseWReplyParameter enabled. This should help out with SharePoint Hosted Apps. $tit = Get-...
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Access Sharepoint from console using token

Just regenerate the token. Add the App For SharePoint nuget package to your console app. Install-Package AppForSharePointWebToolkit Then write the code to generate the token and context object. ...
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How to authenticate to SharePoint Online (Office 365) using REST API

I don't think it's possible to use digest or basic in Online. From my perspective, you have different possible solution depending on your requirements. From my POV there are three options ...
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SharePoint 2016 - ADFS - persistent cookie - office client integration - authentication prompt

Try this solution: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity Check if EnableADAL key is present If not present then create new REG_DWORD key with name EnableADAL and value 0 This worked ...
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SharePoint 2013 is keep prompting

Make sure that The image is not checked-out, try to upload it again as a new version and check it in. The library/folder that holds the image doesn't have a unique permission. The image itself doesn'...
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SharePoint Setup Account (SP_Install) really necessary?

I've always intalled my SP farms with SPInstall (often named SPAdmin in my cases). When prompted by the setup program for the account to run the farm with, I enter SPFarm. After that, everything is ...
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Is it possible to create a SharePoint provider-hosted low-trust add-in that works with an on-premises ACS?

When using high trust, you are using the same JWT tokens. The difference is that in high trust system, your app is so cool and so trusted, that SharePoint trusts your app for token generation. ...
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How to use the FedAuth cookie in 'ClientContext'

For that purpose I would strongly recommend you to use PnP AuthenticationManager class, which already contains methods for obtaining ClientContext with different authentication mechanism. For example ...
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SharePoint 2016 - ADFS - persistent cookie - office client integration - authentication prompt

And, here's an update: KB3203432 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3203432/descriptionofthesecurityupdateforsharepointserver2016june13-2017 did seem to fix this problem (the 401 vs 403 ...
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Use App Password to Authenticate with PowerShell PnP

Yes. You can use app password to authenticate SharePoint Online site using PowerShell PnP. Hit below URL: Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://contoso.sharepoint.com It will open a pop-up like below where ...
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what kind of claims based authentications we can use in SharePoint 2010

Their are 3 differnt way to implement the claims authentication. Windows authentication methods NTLM Kerberos Anonymous Basic Digest Forms-based authentication methods LDAP SQL Server database or ...
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Can't login to newly created webapp / site coll

It can be solved by disabling loopback check. Refer this link: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/shyjumohan/disable-loop-back-check-in-windows-server-2012/ FYI, Microsoft has introduced a ...
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Getting into loop when trying to access two SharePoint 2013 web-apps configured to use ADFS

This is probably far too late, but here is my proposed answer. ADFS will use the same fedauth cookie for a signed in user, even if you configured two relying parties separately. That is because it ...
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Is it possible to create a SharePoint provider-hosted low-trust add-in that works with an on-premises ACS?

For On premise SharePoint farms, you need to create High trust Add-ins which uses S2S authentication mechanism. And you can run code on logged in user context using High trust add-ins. For SharePoint ...
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Delegating/Forwarding SharePoint on-prem (ADFS) identity to call Exchange Online API

You can use one of ADFS features called ActAs. When user is authenticated with ADFS in some ASP.NET application, usually there is a "BootstrapToken": ((IClaimsIdentity)Thread.CurrentPrincipal....
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SharePoint 2016 - ADFS - persistent cookie - office client integration - authentication prompt

I was having the exact same problem. Using SharePoint 2016, Office 2016, and ADFS 4.0/2016, the only way I can get it to work is to disable ADAL. ADAL is not supported for on-premise Exchange, so I ...
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Log in to Sharepoint 2016 using your Enterprise Office 365 account

First of all, SharePoint Online works with the login name using UPN (user principle name) which is in most cases it will the user's email ID. so if your login ID is same as UPN (Microsoft's ...
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Suddenly most users are getting prompts for credentials

Most likely some AJAX call to a resource that the users are lacking permissions to access. I would guess that the two users without the issue got some kind of admin role. Check the console in your ...
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Sharepoint 2010 get REST API. Fetch Data behind authentication using Javascript

SharePoint REST API doesnt support authentication. Incase of O365, you can use OAuth concept to get your app authenticated (But you have on-prem environment). So you have to use the concept, which is ...
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Loading Content Across Site Collections (SP Online)

This is actually quite a known issue when trying to fetch the User profile photo and binding it to the html in other sharepoint page. To fix, we used the userphoto.aspx layouts page which helped us ...
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