Outlook Add-in: Token Viewer

This sample add-in demonstrates how to retrieve and parse the various tokens available to an Outlook add-in, including:

• The Exchange user identity token
• The callback tokens used for making EWS or REST calls
• The single-sign-on token

Key components

This sample includes two main parts, the add-in that retrieves and displays the tokens, and the back-end Web API that does validation of the Exchange user-identity token.

Add-in

The add-in is contained in the TokenValidationService/Add-in folder.

Web API

The Web API is implemented in the TokenValidationService project.

Configure the sample

Register the add-in

Because this sample retrieves an SSO token, you must register the add-in in the Application Registration Portal to get an app ID and secret.

1. Register an app using the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/outlook/add-ins/authenticate-a-user-with-an-sso-token#registering-your-add-in. You do not need to register a Web app unless you intend to modify this sample to call Microsoft Graph.
2. Open the add-in manifest manifest-outlook-token-viewer.xml.
3. Replace all instances of YOUR_APP_ID in the manifest with the app ID generated in your app registration.
4. Update the <Scopes> element in the manifest to reflect the permissions you configured in the Microsoft Graph Permissions section of your app registration.
5. Open the Web.config file and replace all instances of YOUR_APP_ID in the manifest with the app ID generated in your app registration.

Provide user consent

Because you will sideload this add-in, you need to provide user consent to enable the SSO flow. Follow the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/outlook/add-ins/authenticate-a-user-with-an-sso-token#providing-consent-when-sideloading-an-add-in to provide consent.

Run the sample

Sideload the add-in

Follow the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/outlook/add-ins/sideload-outlook-add-ins-for-testing to sideload manifest-outlook-token-viewer.xml.

Note: This step only needs to be done once unless you modify the manifest. If you modify the manifest, you need to remove the add-in, then sideload the updated manifest.

Run the project

Open TokenValidationService.sln in Visual Studio and press F5 to debug the project. Select a message in Outlook and use the add-in buttons to view the tokens or validate the identity token.

Copyright

Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.