Azure AD is a distributed computing system which means, all of the data must be duplicated to the various data centers. You can read about the architecture of Azure here. We occasionally see a case where a customer is using Microsoft Graph to programmatically create a user, group, application, etc. and getting the object id back from that request and then using that id to do some kind of management…
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Introduction Microsoft Graph has a couple of primary ways you can get information about a user in Azure AD. This not only includes things like the user attributes but also groups the user is a member of, access to mail, and etc. Each endpoint does require specific permissions but generally speaking, a user can get the basic information about him/herself via the “me” endpoint. The “me” endpoint From our docs…
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