Azure Active Directory Management (Read/Write to AAD)

When you integrate Nintex K2 Five with SharePoint Online, you must consent permissions to the K2 for Office 365 app. In addition to SharePoint Online permissions, this app also requests read-only permissions to your Azure Active Directory (AAD). This permission, along with the SharePoint requested permissions, allows solutions to read data from AAD and read and write data to SharePoint Online. If you need to build solutions that write data to AAD, you must consent the write permission using the Azure Active Directory Management for K2 app. Use this topic to reconfigure your existing AAD service instance and consent to the Azure Active Directory Management for K2 app requested read and write permissions.

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  1. Confirm the AADMGMT OAuth resource exists
  2. Rebind the AAD service instance to use the AADMGMT OAuth resource
  3. Consent to the Azure Active Directory Management for K2 app in your AAD tenant

Background

When the AAD service instance is configured against the K2 for Office 365 app, all SmartObject methods are exposed even though the underlying OAuth tokens and app do not expose AAD editing permissions by default. This means that it is possible to build a solution that attempts to use these edit methods, but those calls fail. Below is an example of the error received if you use an AAD-based SmartObject method that attempts to write data. In this example, the Update method of the User SmartObject is called. Notice in the error the message "Insufficient privileges to complete the operation."