Connect my web application with Microsoft account

Question

Hi everyone

I am creating a web application and I need to do the following

Allow the user to connect his account on my web app with his Microsoft account, so when creates a meeting in my web app it will automatically create a meeting in his calendar

Similar to the outlook calendar app on slack.

I was able to authenticate the account and get the access token, and use it in the graph API to create the meeting

But this token expires after 1 hour and I need this process to be permanent, and the refresh token requires action from the user himself

I need the user to connect his account once, and then he doesn't need to do anything

Is there anyway to do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Suhaib Saleh

TokenLifetimePolicy can help you in this scenario. As per this table the maximum value AccessTokenLifetime is 1day.

Please refer to the above documentation for more details.

You can also refer to refresh token. The default lifetime for the refresh tokens is 24 hours for single page apps and 90 days for all other scenarios. So, if you want to get refresh token the only way is to use auth code flow or ROPC flow.

Please go through these relevant documentation also.
Configurable token lifetimes in the Microsoft identity platform (preview)
Configure token lifetime policies (preview)

Hope this helps.

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