Send WordPress Emails Using Office 365/ Microsoft Graph APIs | WP Outlook Email Integration

Configure WordPress to seamlessly send emails and notifications through Outlook by replacing the default SMTP with Microsoft Graph APIs/Office 365 Suite. Enhance your email communication by integrating these powerful tools, ensuring reliable and efficient delivery of messages from your WordPress platform. This can be achieved by using our Sync for Azure AD Office 365 plugin.

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To Configure Microsoft Graph API for Azure AD and Office 365 you would need the following Pre-requisites.

• You will need Azure AD Global Administrator Access.
• Our WordPress User Sync for Azure AD Office 365

Steps to configure User Sync for Azure AD Office365 plugin:

1. Configure the Azure AD App registration

Follow the steps below to configure Azure AD Sync plugin:

• Log in to Azure AD Portal https://portal.azure.com/ as an Administrator.
• You will be represented with the home screen of Azure Active Directory.
• Under the Azure Services section, select Microsoft Entra ID.

• In the left tab, under the Manage section, select App registrations tab.

• Click on the New Registration option.

• Assign the Display Name in the name field and choose the account type.
• In the Redirect URI field, provide the URL of your WordPress site and click on Register button.

• After the registration of an application, Azure AD assigns an unique application ID to your application.
• Navigate to the Overview tab, in the left pane.
• Copy the Application ID and the Directory ID, this will be your Client ID and Tenant ID.

• From the left navigation pane, navigate to the Certificates & secrets tab.
• Click on New client secret. Enter the description and expiration time and click on the ADD option.

• Copy the value of Secret Key. This will be your Client Secret Key.

 Add API Permissions to your Azure AD Application:

• Go to API Permissions from the left navigation pane and click on Add a permission option.

• Select Microsoft Graph under the Microsoft APIs tab.
• Select Application Permissions and search for the Mail.

• Under Mail select Mail.Send permission and click on the Add Permissions button.

• Similarly Search for User in the Application Permission.



• Under User select User.Read.All permission and click on the Add Permissions button.

• Click on Grant admin consent for Default Directory and click on Yes on grant admin consent confirmation.

You have successfully configured the Azure AD app to send email on your WordPress Site.

2. Configure User Sync for Azure AD Office365 plugin

• Navigate to the User Sync for Azure AD/Office365 plugin.
• Under the Manage Application tab, click on the Get Started button of Manual (Custom App) to get the Manual App Configuration form.


Application ID	Paste the Application ID from Azure AD App.
Client Secrets	Paste the Client Secret from the Azure AD App.
Redirect URI	Enter the URL of your WordPress site.
Tenant ID	Paste the Directory ID from Azure AD App.

• Paste the required information copied from the Azure AD App.

• Click on Save button to save the configurations.

3. Test Connection

• Go to Users Section in your Azure Active Directory and copy the UserPrincipalName of any user

• Enter the UserPrincipleName / ID of any user of your Azure AD Application and click on the Save button.
• Click on the Test Configuration button to check if the correct user attributes are getting for the entered UserPrincipleName value.

• On successful configuration you will be to able to view the attributes recieved from Azure AD.

4. Send Emails Using Microsoft Graph API

• Navigate to the Mail tab of the plugin.

• There are two types of functionality provided by our plugin to send an email to user using Microsoft graph

• Send Emails Manually
• Send Emails on User Registration

You have successfully configured User Sync for Azure AD Office365.

Additional Resources

• What is Single Sign-On (SSO)?
• What is SAML?
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• User Data Synchronization

If you are looking for anything which you cannot find, please drop us an email on office365support@xecurify.com