how can I Obtain ClientContext in office 365 with fixed credentials (do not prompt user)

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I am prototyping a tool that runs every few minutes and goes off to an office 365 site and to retrieve and then process information.

At the moment I have started with the MSDN guide "Remote Authentication in SharePoint Online Using Claims-Based Authentication" which points to a very helpful code sample that gets a clientcontext object based on a user logging in and then extracts the cookie.

I want to be able to run my code within task scheduler, so that you will be able to specify the office username and password in a configuration somewhere.

Does anyone have any code that will do this or a starting point. something like

using (ClientContext ctx = SomeClass.GetContext(targetSiteUrl, username, password))
{
    if (ctx != null)
    {
        //dostuffhere
    }
}

I have seen this blog post Automatic Login for SharePoint using Claims authentication but the code on the site doesn't appear to be complete / I cannot get it working

Just to note that I am referring to the current release of office 365 (based on 2010) and not the newly available beta of 2013

I may have found the answer. I will be in a position to implement on Wednesday this week. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjohnson/archive/2011/05/14/part-2-headless-authentication-with-sharepoint-online-and-the-client-side-object-model.aspx — Buzzby, Sep 10 '12 at 14:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 14:12

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so, are you wanting to allow a user to access something without them being a registered user in SharePoint? if so, you may want to look into elevating the current users privileges in code.

answered Sep 04 '12 at 14:12

haydnD

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That is not quite what i'm trying to do. I don't think you can elevate code via the Client side object model. I still need a way of getting the initial clientContext object – Buzzby Sep 04 '12 at 15:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 10:53

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Can confirm that this post here has the answer. ou use the MSOnlineHelper class to do the headless authentication

answered Sep 18 '12 at 10:53

Buzzby

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 11:54

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Use the SharePointOnlineCredentials class to instantiate clientContext.Credentials.

The SharePointOnlineCredentials class represents an object that provides credentials to access SharePoint Online resources.

answered Jul 08 '13 at 11:54

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how can I Obtain ClientContext in office 365 with fixed credentials (do not prompt user)

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