Microsoft Outlook events

This article provides the properties and schema for Microsoft Outlook events, which are published by Microsoft Graph API. For an introduction to event schemas, see CloudEvents schema.

Available event types

These events are triggered when an Outlook event or an Outlook contact is created, updated or deleted or by operating over those resources using Microsoft Graph API.

Event name Description
Microsoft.Graph.EventCreated Triggered when an event in Outlook is created.
Microsoft.Graph.EventUpdated Triggered when an event in Outlook is updated.
Microsoft.Graph.EventDeleted Triggered when an event in Outlook is deleted.
Microsoft.Graph.ContactCreated Triggered when a contact in Outlook is created.
Microsoft.Graph.ContactUpdated Triggered when a contact in Outlook is updated.
Microsoft.Graph.ContactDeleted Triggered when a contact in Outlook is deleted.

Example event

When an event is triggered, the Event Grid service sends data about that event to subscribing destinations. This section contains an example of what that data would look like for each Outlook event.

Microsoft.Graph.EventCreated event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.EventCreated",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Events/<event-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "created",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<event id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Event",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Microsoft.Graph.EventUpdated event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.EventUpdated",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Events/<event-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "updated",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<event id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Event",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Microsoft.Graph.EventDeleted event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.EventDeleted",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Events/<event-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "deleted",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<event id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Events('<event id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Event",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Microsoft.Graph.ContactCreated event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.ContactCreated",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Contacts/<contact-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "created",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<contact id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Contact",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Microsoft.Graph.ContactUpdated event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.ContactUpdated",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Contacts/<contact-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "updated",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<contact id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Contact",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Microsoft.Graph.ContactDeleted event

{
	"id": "00d8a100-2e92-4bfa-86e1-0056dacd0fce",
	"type": "Microsoft.Graph.ContactDeleted",
	"source": "/tenants/<tenant-id>/applications/<application-id>",
	"subject": "Contacts/<contact-id>",
	"time": "2022-05-24T22:24:31.3062901Z",
	"datacontenttype": "application/json",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"data": {
		"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Notification",
		"Id": null,
		"SubscriptionExpirationDateTime": "2019-02-14T23:56:30.1307708Z",
		"ChangeType": "deleted",
		"subscriptionId": "MTE1MTVlYTktMjVkZS00MjY3LWI1YzYtMjg0NzliZmRhYWQ2",
		"resource": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
		"clientState": "<client state>",
		"resourceData": {
			"Id": "<contact id>",
			"@odata.etag": "<tag id>",
			"@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/beta/Users('userId@tenantId')/Contacts('<contact id>')",
			"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.Contact",
			"OtherResourceData": "<some other resource data>"
		}
	}
}

Event properties

An event has the following top-level data:

Property Type Description
source string The tenant event source. This field isn't writeable. Microsoft Graph API provides this value.
subject string Publisher-defined path to the event subject.
type string One of the event types for this event source.
time string The time the event is generated based on the provider's UTC time
id string Unique identifier for the event.
data object Event payload that provides the data about the resource state change.
specversion string CloudEvents schema specification version.

The data object has the following properties:

Property Type Description
changeType string The type of resource state change.
resource string The resource identifier for which the event was raised.
tenantId string The organization ID where the user or contact is kept.
clientState string A secret provided by the user at the time of the Graph API subscription creation.
@odata.type string The Graph API change type.
@odata.id string The Graph API resource identifier for which the event was raised.
id string The resource identifier for which the event was raised.
organizationId string The Outlook tenant identifier.
eventTime string The time at which the resource state occurred.
sequenceNumber string A sequence number.
subscriptionExpirationDateTime string The time in RFC 3339 format at which the Graph API subscription expires.
subscriptionId string The Graph API subscription identifier.
tenantId string The Outlook tenant identifier.
otherResourceData string Placeholder that represents one or more dynamic properties that may be included in the event.

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