Azure Active Directory Group Delta API

Question

I am using the Azure Active Directory Group API for my tenant to list all the groups. I am using GET DELTA

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/group-delta?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/delta?$select=resourceBehaviorOptions,groupTypes,membershipRuleProcessingState,mail,visibility,displayName,mailEnabled,createdDateTime,creationOptions,proxyAddresses,securityIdentifier,resourceProvisioningOptions,id,securityEnabled,mailNickname,members

According to the documentation, this call when I make for the first time should give me all the meta-data related to groups and in the end it should give me a "delta-link". This delta link when called later would just give the changes that have been made in the meta-data of group since then.

However during the first call only when I should be getting all the meta-data, I am getting resources with annotations @removed. According to my understanding I should get the changes only when I call the delta link and not for the first time when I am getting all the data

I wanted to know if this is a feature (Microsoft returns @removed for groups which were removed let's day 10 days ago). Or this is a bug?

Answer 1

Hi @Shambhavi Rai · Thank you for reaching out.

Doesn't look like a bug, as for me it is working as expected. Below is the response after adding a user to Group02.

I then copied the delta link and ran a GET call using that link and I do not see any result in the Value array afterwards as there are no changes done.

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Answer 2

Hi @AmanpreetSingh-MSFT , thanks for your response

However I am seeing this issue with my account, during the first call when I should get the meta-data of all the groups, I get a few resources looking like this as well, my expectation after reading the documentation was that these type of resources are returned only after all the meta-data has been returned once and we go for the subsequent delta call using delta link provided at the last page of response.