Programmatically get EWS accesstoken

Question

I have a working EWS connection, but at the moment I have to fill in my username and password everytime that I stop the app. Eventually alot of different users will use the application. Is there a way to programmatically get an accesstoken which I can store in the localstorrage? (I don't want to save the password)

    ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP2);

    ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials(username, password);
    service.setCredentials(credentials);

    service.setUrl(new URI("https://domain/EWS/Exchange.asmx"));

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '16 at 13:18

It's called impersonation (the mail server admin must run a power shell command to assign superuser privileges to a designated mail account).

Here is the link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dd633680(v=exchg.80).aspx

Also here is a working example of how I use impersonation for hundreds of users. What you need is to store the usernames in a hashset or dictionary instead of an access token (there is no access token in EWS).

Private _ExchangeServicesMainThread As New Dictionary(Of String, ExchangeService)
Private _UserIdState As New Dictionary(Of String, Integer)
Private _Connections As New Dictionary(Of String, StreamingSubscriptionConnection)
Private _Subscriptions As New Dictionary(Of String, StreamingSubscription)

Private Function InitializeService(pUsername As String) As ExchangeService
    Dim oExService As ExchangeService
    Dim strEmailAddress As String = pUsername & config.MailDomain
    Dim strAdminEmailAddress As String = config.ExchangeServerAdminUserName & config.MailDomain

        oExService = New ExchangeService(config.ExchangeVersion)
        oExService.UseDefaultCredentials = False
        oExService.Url = New Uri(config.SecureHTTP & config.EmailServer & config.ExchangeManagedAPIEndpoint)
        oExService.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential(config.ExchangeServerAdminUserName, config.ExchangeServerAdminPass, config.ActiveDirectoryDomain)
        oExService.ImpersonatedUserId = New ImpersonatedUserId(ConnectingIdType.SmtpAddress, strEmailAddress)

        Return oExService
End Function

Assuming you have an initialized dictionary of all the users then loop though your dictionary so that you assign an exchangeservice to each one of them and store this username/exchangeservice in a new dictionary

    For Each strUserName As String In _UserIdDictionary.Keys
        _ExchangeServicesMainThread.Add(strUserName, InitializeService(strUserName))
    Next

Thank you for your answer! To bad they don't have a accesstoken. I can't get access to the exchange as admin so this won't be an option for me. Stil it's helpful to know that there is no accesstoken. — Arnout, Apr 29 '16 at 07:02

Programmatically get EWS accesstoken

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