Cause (Documented platform behavior): The SharePoint tool requires identity passthrough (On-Behalf-Of) with a user identity; app-only tokens are rejected.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/d9568cdc285118df903f65aa86303d075cc5c1d1/articles/foundry/agents/how-to/tools/sharepoint.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Troubleshooting: this error means application identity is used; the SharePoint tool requires user identity passthrough.
Search phrasings: foundry sharepoint tool AppOnly OBO tokens not supported; azure ai agent sharepoint service principal error
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- SharePoint tool calls fail with an authentication error when the agent is invoked by a service principal / managed identity.
- Context
- Product: Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Component: SharePoint (Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieval) tool Operation: Agent run invoking the SharePoint tool with an app/service identity Affected versions: current docs (azure-ai-docs d9568cd) Environment: unknown Trigger: Calling the agent with application-only credentials instead of a signed-in user.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- AuthenticationError: AppOnly OBO tokens not supported by target service
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Foundry Agent SharePoint tool] 'AuthenticationError: AppOnly OBO tokens not supported by target service'
Recommended action: Invoke the agent with a delegated user token (OBO); do not use app-only auth for SharePoint grounding.
Option: Use delegated user identity [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Steps:
1. Acquire a user token in the client app
2. Call the agent with that user context
Expected: SharePoint results returned per user permissions
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- c2eaa844-0a1d-4515-a2a4-82f513b6ca96
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Invoke the agent with a delegated user token (OBO); do not use app-only auth for SharePoint grounding. Option: Use delegated user identity [evidence: official_recommended_action] Steps: 1. Acquire a user token in the client app 2. Call the agent with that user context Expected: SharePoint results returned per user permissions
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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