Notes on learning to work with the Microsoft Graph API

Microsoft Graph is a REST API which allows you to access Microsoft Cloud services (e.g. Office 365 service like Microsoft Teams, OneDrive,Planner, SharePoint, etc.. but also enterprise mobility and security services like Azure AD, Identity Manager, etc..) resources using a single endpoint. You can use it for example for querying data in Outlook/Exchange and OneDrive but in the past couple of weeks I mainly used it for Microsoft Teams. The easiest way to get started with the Microsoft Graph API is the Microsoft Graph Explorer.

I learned quite a lot from the 30 days of Microsoft Graph blog series - a highly recommended starting point - for other resources take a look at the references section below.

References:

• Overview of Microsoft Graph
• Getting started with Microsoft Graph (Youtube 00:04:46)
• Graph explorer  - https://aka.ms/ge
• Microsoft Graph tutorials
• A lap around the Microsoft Graph Toolkit - https://aka.ms/mgtlap
• Build apps with Microsoft Graph - Associate (Microsoft Learn)
• Getting started with Microsoft Graph API for developers