Microsoft Graph enables you to integrate with the best of Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security services in Microsoft 365, using REST APIs and client libraries. Additionally, it offers security and intelligence that can boost user productivity, creativity, and team collaboration, and protect business resources and users' data.
Users and groups
At the core of Microsoft Graph are the concepts of the user and group.
A user in Microsoft Graph is one among the millions who use Microsoft 365 cloud services. It is the focal point whose identity is protected and access is well-managed. The user's data is what drives businesses. Microsoft Graph services make this data available to businesses in rich contexts, real-time updates, and deep insights, and always only with the appropriate permissions.
A Microsoft 365 group is the fundamental entity that lets users collaborate. It integrates with other services, enabling richer scenarios in task planning, teamwork, education, and more.
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Users
Microsoft Entra ID and most productivity, collaboration, intelligence, and education services
The user is a core focus of Microsoft Graph, around which many Microsoft Graph services build user-centric functionality.
Connecting users' data, Microsoft 365 services, and your apps
Starting with users and groups at the core, Microsoft Graph forms a network of Microsoft 365 services and features that manage, protect, and extract data to support a wide range of scenarios. Microsoft Graph lets you access this wealth of user data while always respecting proper authorization.
Services and features
Some services in Microsoft Graph make their debut there, others have been well-known as standalone services and are now converging in Microsoft Graph. Their API sets follow a streamlined design as detailed in the Microsoft REST API guidelines, and are now accessible through the single Microsoft Graph REST endpoint https://graph.microsoft.com. The rest of this article lists the major services and features by category.
Identity and access management
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Identity and access management
Microsoft Entra ID
Creates and manages directory resources such as users, groups, and applications. Manages access to resources and data. Gives customers access to sign-in and account risk data in Microsoft Entra ID.
Lets users set up appointments and meetings on the web and on mobile and desktop devices. It is part of the Outlook messaging communication hub in Microsoft 365 that also lets users manage emails and contacts.
Lets users communicate, organize messages, and manage priorities in their workflows, on the web, and on mobile and desktop devices. It is part of the Outlook communication hub in Microsoft 365 that also lets users manage contacts and schedule meetings.
Contacts manager on the web and on mobile and desktop devices. It is part of the Outlook messaging communication hub in Microsoft 365 that also lets users manage emails and schedule meetings.
Lets users manage their personal tasks across work and life. It is also integrated with Outlook, Teams, Planner, and Cortana, which makes it the single destination for user's personal tasks in Microsoft 365.
Lets apps and services interact with users through various communications-related features; for example, enabling bots to handle calls, integrating online meetings in line of business scenarios, showing users' presence status (preview), and looking up records for calls and online meetings (preview).
Empowers employees to make learning a natural part of the day by bringing learning into the flow of work within the tools and platforms of Microsoft 365 that they already use. Discover, share, and track learning across a variety of sources from a center of learning in Microsoft Teams.
Lets managers and frontline workers manage staff scheduling or capture data from workforce management systems to create optimized schedules for a business.
Gets information about persons as ordered by their relevance to a user, determined by the user's communication and collaboration patterns and business relationships.
Uses advanced analytics and machine-learning techniques to provide insights into how people spend their time and who they spend it with. This data can help people plan their day, gain insights into their different work patterns, and help them balance work and life.
Microsoft Edge is one of the applications that administrators manage through the Microsoft 365 admin center. As an alternative to using the Microsoft 365 admin center, apps can use the Microsoft Graph API to manage the same Edge settings configured through the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Universal Print is a Microsoft 365 cloud-based print infrastructure that enables a simple, rich, and secure print experience for users and reduces administrative and management effort for IT.
Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that lets administrators easily set up and manage Windows 365 Cloud PCs for users in their organization. Individual end users can securely stream their rich, personalized Windows experience from the Microsoft cloud to any device, any time, with their Cloud PC.
Lets Managed Service Providers (MSPs) remotely manage multiple customer tenants for compliance and threat detection, and help get tenant devices in a healthy and secure state.
Provides access to the health status and message center posts about Microsoft cloud services. A notable example that uses the service communications API is the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, and more
Provides a unified gateway to security insights and actions across Microsoft and ecosystem partners.
Provides access to eDiscovery capabilities used in the process of identifying and delivering electronic information that can be used as evidence in legal cases.
The Microsoft Graph notifications API is deprecated and stopped returning data in January 2022. For an alternative notification experience, see Microsoft Azure Notification Hubs. For more information, see this blog post.
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User notifications
User notifications
Enables app experiences to build user-centric and cross-platform notification experiences including user-based fan-out, universal dismiss, and accessing notification history.
Provides information relevant for education scenarios, including schools, classes, students, teachers, and assignment info. Enables ISVs to build applications for the classroom that save teachers time and promote teamwork and collaboration.
A multi-vertical, cross-industry, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) platform that includes support for the education sector, enabling applications to manage and move user and roster data from a student information system (SIS).
Targets organizations to enable their users and customers to book services directly on the web or Facebook. Lets business providers manage customer preferences, services and pricing, staff lists and schedules, and other common business information.
Enables management of financial data, automation and securing of the supply chain, sales management and improved customer service, management of projects, and optimization of operations with the all-in-one business management solution.
SharePoint Online, Exchange, OneDrive for Business
Enables partners to build customized versions of their applications integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks or accidental or malicious deletion or overwriting of content by employees. Business continuity assurance is a critical concern for many companies. Microsoft 365 Backup Storage APIs provide peace of mind by delivering reliable, performant and at-scale backup/restore confidence.
