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  3. BlackBerry Work, Notes, and Tasks Administration Guide for BlackBerry UEM
  4. Managing BlackBerry Work
  5. Steps to configure email notifications for BlackBerry Work
  6. Configure email notifications for BlackBerry Work
  7. Enable Microsoft Graph API to allow BEMS Cloud to communicate with Microsoft Office 365

Enable
Microsoft Graph
 API to allow
BEMS
 Cloud to communicate with
Microsoft Office 365

Complete this task only if your
BEMS
 Cloud environment requires new client app registrations.
You must can use
BEMS
 Cloud to access
Microsoft Office 365
 to access users’ mailboxes and send notifications to users’ devices when new email is received in the user's mailbox using
Microsoft Graph
 API. When you configure the
Microsoft Graph
 API, your environment is using modern authentication. After you configure the
Microsoft Graph
 API, you must configure the autodiscover.
In 2022,
Microsoft
 started to deprecate the
Microsoft Exchange Web Services
 (EWS) for
Microsoft Exchange Online
 APIs and replacing the EWS with the
Microsoft Graph
 API. For more information, visit techcommunity.microsoft.com and read 'Upcoming API Deprecations in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online'.
  1. In the management console, click
    Settings > BlackBerry Dynamics > Email notifications
    .
  2. Click the
    Microsoft Graph
     tab.
  3. Click The Edit icon.
  4. Select the
    Use Microsoft Graph client
     check box.
  5. In the
    Authentication type
     section, select an authentication type based on your environment and complete the associated tasks to allow
    BEMS
     to communicate with
    Microsoft Office 365
    :
    Authentication type
    Description
    Task
    Client Secret
    This option uses a client secret to allow the
    BEMS
     service account to authenticate to
    Microsoft Office 365
    . The client secret is created during the application registration process.
    In the
    Client Secret
     field, enter the
    Value
    for the client secret. For instructions on obtaining a client secret, see Obtain an Entra app ID for BEMS with client secret authentication.
    Client Certificate
    This option uses a client certificate to allow the
    BEMS
     service account to authenticate to
    Microsoft Office 365
    .
    1. For the
      Certificate file (.pfx)
      , click
      Browse
       and select the client certificate file. For instructions on obtaining the .PFX file, see Associate a certificate with the Entra app ID for BEMS
    2. In the
      Password
       field, enter the password for the client certificate.
  6. In the
    Authentication Authority
     field, enter the Authentication Server URL that
    BEMS
     accesses and retrieve the OAuth token for authentication with
    Microsoft Office 365
    . By default, the field is prepopulated with https://login.microsoftonline.com/common.
    The authentication server URL must be in the format of https://login.microsoftonline.com/
    tenantname
     or https://login.microsoftonline.com/
    tenantid
    .
  7. In the
    Client App ID
     field, enter the
    Entra
     app ID for the credential authentication. For instructions, see Obtain an Entra app ID for BEMS with credential or passive authentication.
  8. In the
    Server Name
     field, type
    https://graph.microsoft.com
    .
  9. In the
    End User Email Address
     field, type an email address to test connectivity to
    Microsoft Office 365
     using the service account. Click
    Test connection
    . You can delete the email address after you complete the test.
  10. Click
    Save
    . 
  11. Configure the Autodiscover and Exchange Options in Configure email notifications for BlackBerry Work. You can configure the settings using one of the following authentication types: Credential, Credentials + Modern Authentication, Client Certificate + Modern Authentication, or Passive Authentication type.