How to Send-As a Distribution Group (via SSIS ScriptTask) via Exchange Online using Modern Auth?
We have a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) task that retrieves emails from a table in our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The emails contain From:, To:, Cc, and Bcc: addresses, in addition to the body and other data. The SSIS task then reads the data, connects to a local on-premises Exchange 2016 server to send the emails, and allows the SQL Server IP address to log in anonymously and send emails as any user in the From field, provided the address is valid on the Exchange server. We are considering removing the local on-premises Exchange 2016 server and need to modify the SSIS task to connect to Exchange Online to send the emails. We are exploring the use of Modern Authentication, App Registration, and Microsoft Graph to send the emails. The From addresses in the CRM can be an address of a User Mailbox, Shared Mailbox, or Distribution Group. Based on my research, it appears there is no way to send emails as a Distribution Group via Microsoft Graph. Therefore, I am forced to use SmtpClient and logging in as a user with Send-As permissions on all of the groups, which has its own drawbacks. What is the proper way to programmatically send as a Distribution Group? We have about 40 Groups we send as.
Validate Guest/Member users for accounts created before 2014
Old exchange accounts that were created before 2014-2015 don't have userType field. When we query such users their userType returns null: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/xxx?$select=createdDateTime,userType How do we differ in such case between Guest and Member accounts?