customAuthenticationExtension: validateAuthenticationConfiguration

Namespace: microsoft.graph

An API to check validity of the endpoint and and authentication configuration for a customAuthenticationExtension object, which can represent one of the following derived types:

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) CustomAuthenticationExtension.Read.All CustomAuthenticationExtension.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application CustomAuthenticationExtension.Read.All CustomAuthenticationExtension.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the admin must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

  • Authentication Extensibility Administrator
  • Application Administrator

HTTP request

To validate the endpoint and authentication configuration for a customAuthenticationExtension by its ID.

POST /identity/customAuthenticationExtensions/{customAuthenticationExtensionId}/validateAuthenticationConfiguration

To validate the endpoint and authentication configuration that's specified in the request body for a customAuthenticationExtension. The custom authentication extension object may not exist yet and you can use this endpoint to validate the configuration before creating the custom authentication extension.

POST /identity/customAuthenticationExtensions/validateAuthenticationConfiguration

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action. Supply a endpointConfiguration and authenticationConfiguration if querying at the root level. Otherwise, for a specific custom extension, do not supply a request body for this method.

Parameter Type Description
endpointConfiguration customExtensionEndpointConfiguration The HTTP endpoint for the custom authentication extension to be validated.
authenticationConfiguration customExtensionEndpointConfiguration The authentication configuration for the custom authenticaion extension to validate.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 200 OK response code and a authenticationConfigurationValidation in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Supply and validate a potential custom authentication extension configuration

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/customAuthenticationExtensions/validateAuthenticationConfiguration
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "endpointConfiguration": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.httpRequestEndpoint",
        "targetUrl": "https://australia.contoso.com/users"
    },
    "authenticationConfiguration": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.azureAdTokenAuthentication",
        "resourceId": "api://extensibilityapi.azurwebsites.net/f9c5dc6b-d72b-4226-8ccd-801f7a290428"
    }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.authenticationConfigurationValidation",
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": "IncorrectResourceIdFormat",
            "message": "ResourceId should be in the format of 'api://{fully qualified domain name}/{appid}'"
        },
        {
            "code": "DomainNameDoesNotMatch",
            "message": "The fully qualified domain name in resourceId should match that of the targetUrl"
        },
        {
            "code": "ServicePrincipalNotFound",
            "message": "The appId of the resourceId should correspond to a real service principal in the tenant"
        }
    ],
    "warnings": [
        {
            "code": "PermissionNotGrantedToServicePrincipal",
            "message": "The permission CustomAuthenticationExtensions.Receive.Payload is not granted to the service principal of the resource app"
        },
    ]
}

Example 2: Validate the configuration of a specific existing custom authentication extension

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/customAuthenticationExtensions/9f39f3bb-457c-4a2a-8099-0e480e7ea142/validateAuthenticationConfiguration

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.authenticationConfigurationValidation",
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": "IncorrectResourceIdFormat",
            "message": "ResourceId should be in the format of 'api://{fully qualified domain name}/{appid}'"
        },
        {
            "code": "DomainNameDoesNotMatch",
            "message": "The fully qualified domain name in resourceId should match that of the targetUrl"
        },
        {
            "code": "ServicePrincipalNotFound",
            "message": "The appId of the resourceId should correspond to a real service principal in the tenant"
        }
    ],
    "warnings": [
        {
            "code": "PermissionNotGrantedToServicePrincipal",
            "message": "The permission CustomAuthenticationExtensions.Receive.Payload is not granted to the service principal of the resource app"
        },
    ]
}