Office 365 Developer : Required permissions/plans for an Office 365 account to access using Office 365 REST APIs

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Are you an Office 365 developer and want to use Office 365 APIs such as mail, contacts, calendar, and files to access then you need to have the following permissions/part of plans:

Permissions: To access you need to have an Office 365 business account with global administrator privileges.

Plans: Also this can be one of the following plans:

  • Office 365 Midsize Business

  • Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, E4, E5 or K1

  • Office 365 Education A2, A3, or A4

  • Office 365 Developer

If you don’t have the above, then you will get an error when you try to connect with Visual Studio (using Office 365 Tools > Add > Connected Service).

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Hope this helps.