How to create users and groups in bulk in Azure AD/Azure via Graph API as not able to find any way?

Question

How to create users and groups in bulk in Azure AD/Azure via Graph API as not able to find any way?

Answer 1

Hi Mytoast Admin,

Thanks for reaching out.

You can use Json batching mentioned at the link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/json-batching which is the concept of combining multiple Graph request into one and make a batch call. One such example is shown below to add multiple users.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$batch

{
    "requests": [{
            "id": "1",
            "method": "POST",
            "url": "/users",
            "body": {
                "accountEnabled": true,
                "displayName": "allentest01",
                "mailNickname": "allentest01",
                "userPrincipalName": "allentest01@{tenant}.onmicrosoft.com",
                "passwordProfile": {
                    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
                    "password": "{password-value}"
                }
            },
            "headers": {
                "Content-Type": "application/json"
            }
        }, {
            "id": "2",
            "method": "POST",
            "url": "/users",
            "body": {
                "accountEnabled": true,
                "displayName": "allentest02",
                "mailNickname": "allentest02",
                "userPrincipalName": "allentest02@{tenant}.onmicrosoft.com",
                "passwordProfile": {
                    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
                    "password": "{password-value}"
                }
            },
            "headers": {
                "Content-Type": "application/json"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Based upon this link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/json-batching#batch-size-limitations JSON batch requests are currently limited to 20 individual requests.

In similar way you can you use this for creating groups. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/group-post-groups?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

and for creating multiple groups at a time, you can also use JSON batching of Graph as mentioned above.

To Add and remove multiple users to a group in once.

There is not an endpoint which we can use to remove users from AAD Group in batch. But there is a batch endpoint which combines multiple requests in one HTTP call. It also have a limitation of 20. So we can't delete too many users in one call.

Working C# example is below. Please comment if following is required in PowerShell.

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(authProvider);

var additionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>()
    {
        {"******@odata.bind", new List<string>()}
    };
(additionalData["******@odata.bind"] as List<string>).Add("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}""); // first user id
(additionalData["******@odata.bind"] as List<string>).Add("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}""); // second user id

var group = new Group
{
    AdditionalData = additionalData
};

await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"]
   .Request()
   .UpdateAsync(group);  

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Answer 2

I commented your answer and asked for further clarification with batch update in powershell. So please give me an answer, also for your source code offering: "Working C# example is below. Please comment if following is required in PowerShell"
Yes it is required ;-)