Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dean Shiyu Chiang

Matthias Adam Leibmann

Glenn Block

Michael Thomas McLean

Ladislau Conceicao

Deepak Kumar Singh

Rong Guo

Timothy Yu-Rui Chen

Michael Thomas Mclean

Glenn David Block

A method and system for securing an anonymous discovery service may include receiving a request from a client device, the request being directed to an anonymous Autodiscover service, identifying a source from which the request originated from within the client device, and responsive to the source being of a first type of sources, transmitting a first response to the client and responsive to the source being of a second type of sources transmitting a second response to the client. The first response does not return a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a service endpoint, the second response returns a URL to a service endpoint. Furthermore, the anonymous discovery service may be a discovery service that requires no authentication.

Method and system of providing security for anonymous autodiscover services

Systems and methods for enabling cross-tenant access are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive an access request, from a user of a first tenant, requesting access to a resource of a plurality of resources on a shared collaborative channel of a second tenant. The computing device may further evaluate cross-tenant access policies of the first and second tenants to determine that access to the plurality of resources is authorized by the first and second tenants, validate that the user is a member of the shared collaborative channel, and generate a validation token indicating the user is validated to access the plurality of resources. Based on the validation token, the computing device may further validate that the user is in compliance with the cross-tenant access policies for accessing the resource and grant the user a set of permissions to access the resource.

Cross-tenant access to lightweight group assets

An asynchronous engine identifies API calls that are to be made in order to fulfill a received service request. The asynchronous engine secures a separate computing thread for making each API call, and generates the API calls on the separate computing threads. Workflows performed in responding to the service call interact with the asynchronous engine to obtain results from the API calls.

Independently threading API calls to service a request

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