Using AdditionalData property in Microsoft Graph SDK for .Net

The AAD Directory Object classes in Microsoft Graph SDK for .Net have a generic property called ‘AdditionalData’ that can be used to send and receive data in the json payload. In certain scenarios where the regular class members are not available in the SDK we can still set their values via AdditionalData property. An example of this is to create a group that has resourceBehaviorOptions attribute (array of strings) populated…

Read More

Python Scripts may be detected as web-crawler when making Microsoft Graph requests.

Sometimes, a python script that is making Microsoft Graph requests may be detected by the gateway as a web-crawler if you are using a pool manager and block the request. The error will look similar to this: {‘error’: {‘code’: ‘UnknownError’, ‘message’: ‘\r\n403 Forbidden\r\n\r\n 403 Forbidden \r\n Microsoft-Azure-Application-Gateway/v2 \r\n\r\n\r\n’, ‘innerError’: {‘date’: ‘{UTC Date/Time}’, ‘request-id’: ‘{guid}’, ‘client-request-id’: ‘{guid}’}}} To overcome this issue the easiest way is to use the MS Graph SDK…

Read More

Download the user signInActivity from the beta endpoint using Microsoft Graph Powershell module.

You can use the Microsoft Graph Powershell module to download last sign in date / time for users from the Beta endpoint ( the signInActivity is currently not available in v1.0 ) and save the list to a .csv file. You must have the Microsoft Graph powershell module installed. This document will help you get started. My powershell script:

Read More

Using Microsoft.Identity.Web to request multiple different Azure AD Access Tokens

There are times a web application may need to log in a user and call different backend Azure AD protected web APIs. The web application would need to obtain different Access Tokens, one for each web API. In this post I will attempt to demonstrate how this can be done using MIcrosoft.Identity.Web nuget package. This sample shows how to get tokens for Microsoft Graph resource and a custom web API…

Read More