Microsoft Graph API > setting manager property not working

Question

I am using MS Graph API to update the user's manager using a C# console application. This was working until a few days ago. It no longer seems to work. I am not getting any errors.

As a test, I used PowerShell to set the manager --> "Set-MgUserManagerByRef". This works fine.

Did something change?

Thanks.
sk

Answer 1

Hi @Steven Kang

Nothing seems to have changed, I just used a C# console application to assign managers to employees and it works fine. Refer to my code:

using Azure.Identity;  
using Microsoft.Graph;  
  
var scopes = new[] { "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default" };      
var tenantId = "tenant id";  
var clientId = "client id";  
var clientSecret = "client secret";  
      
// using Azure.Identity;  
var options = new TokenCredentialOptions  
{  
    AuthorityHost = AzureAuthorityHosts.AzurePublicCloud  
};   
 
// https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/azure.identity.clientsecretcredential  
var clientSecretCredential = new ClientSecretCredential(  
 tenantId, clientId, clientSecret, options);  
  
var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(clientSecretCredential, scopes);  
  
await graphClient.Users["employee id"].Manager.Reference  
 .Request()  
 .PutAsync("manager id");  

Note that you can only assign managers to employees and cannot assign direct reports to managers.

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