"Basic Auth" Deprecated in Business Central. OAuth grant types

Francesco 1

Since "Basic Auth" has been marked as deprecatedin Business Central SaaS, we have not a valid option to change it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/upgrade/deprecated-features-w1

Microsoft says that we should use OAuth. However, the only "Grant_type" that is manage in the documentation is "Authoritation_code". It works fine but, it needs user interact so no daemon apps are supported.
I've tried to setup a "client credentials" grant_type without suceed. Is it even posible?

There is also something called "Automation APIs". These ones can be called as OAuth "client credentials" but there are precreated APIs for administration propouses and we can't create custom ones. Is this right?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/itpro-introduction-to-automation-apis

I spent a lot of time with this problem and I can't see the solution. Is there something that I am missing?

Shashi Shailaj 7,581 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-03-01T05:47:55.677+00:00

@Francesco ,
As far as what I have read on this , client credential flow will not work in this scenario . Could you please post this in the business central forum where the community can help further on the automation APIs part of the query ? Please post it at https://community.dynamics.com/business/f/dynamics-365-business-central-forum .

Thank you