Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph (MS Graph) is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that you can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security.

• Overview of Microsoft Graph (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Graph REST API v1.0 endpoint reference (Microsoft)
• device resource type (Microsoft)
• Use query parameters to customize responses (Microsoft)

Graph Explorer

Graph Explorer is a developer tool that let’s you learn about Microsoft Graph APIs. Use Graph Explorer to try the APIs on the default sample tenant to explore capabilities.

• Graph Explorer (Microsoft)

Microsoft Graph Powershell

• Connect-MgGraph (Microsoft)

Installation

• Install the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (Microsoft)

powershell

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Install-Module Microsoft.Graph -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force

Import module

$MaximumVariableCount = 10000
$MaximumFunctionCount = 10000
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph

Authentication

Interactive authentication

A browser opens to authenticate to your tenant.

Connect-MgGraph

Device authentication

Navigate to a URL and enter a device code to authenticate.

Connect-MgGraph -UseDeviceAuthentication

Access token

Authenticate using your own access token.

Connect-MgGraph -AccessToken $AccessToken

Python

• Microsoft Graph Beta SDK for Python (GitHub)

Installation

Enable long paths in Windows

See Maximum Path Length Limitation (Microsoft).

# Run as administrator
powershell
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem" -Name "LongPathsEnabled" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

Install MS Graph SDK (BETA version)

pip install msgraph-beta-sdk

Azure CLI

• Azure CLI Reference (Microsoft)

ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>

az rest --method GET --url "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me" --headers "Authorization=Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN"