Azure AD Graph API reference
The Azure Active Directory (AD) Graph API is an OData 3.0 compliant service that you can use to read and modify objects such as users, groups, and contacts in a tenant. Azure AD Graph API exposes REST endpoints that you send HTTP requests to in order to perform operations using the service. The reference topics in this guide show you how to perform specific operations against the resources exposed by the Graph API. Many of the topics are interactive. They expose a Try It feature that you can use to change the parameters of selected operations and observe the responses that are returned from a demo tenant.
This article applies to Azure AD Graph API. For similar info related to Microsoft Graph API, see Major services and features in Microsoft Graph.
Caution
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph is deprecated and is currently in its retirement path. We recommend that you migrate your apps to Microsoft Graph.
- To start migrating your apps, see Migrate your apps from Azure AD Graph to Microsoft Graph.
- For the latest announcement, see Important: Azure AD Graph Retirement.
Click the appropriate link below to see the documentation and example for a specific operation. For more general information about the Graph API and its supported features, as well as advanced topics such as differential query, batch processing, directory schema extensions, and others, see Graph API concepts.
Signed-in user (me) operations
Signed-in user operations overview | Get user | Update user | Get manager | Assign manager
User operations
User operations overview | Get users | Get a user | Create users (work or school account) | Create user (local account) | Update user | Reset a user's password | Delete user | Get manager | Assign manager | Get direct reports | Get memberships | Invalidate all refresh tokens | User functions and actions
Group operations
Group operations overview | Get groups | Get a group | Create group | Update group | Delete group | Get members | Add members | Delete member | Group functions and actions
Contact operations
Contact operations overview | Get contacts | Get a contact | Update contact | Delete contact | Get manager | Assign manager | Get direct reports | Get memberships | Contact functions and actions
Directory Role operations
Directory roles operations overview | Get directory roles | Get a directory role | Get directory role templates | Activate a directory role | Get members | Add members | Delete member | Directory role functions and actions
Domain operations
Domains operations overview | Get domains | Get a domain | Create a domain | Update a domain | Delete a domain | Get domain verification records | Get domain service configuration records | Domain functions and actions
Policy operations
Policy overview | Get policy | Create policy | List policies | Update policy | Delete policy | Assign policy | List applications and service principals with specific policy assigned | List policies assigned to application or service principal
Functions and actions
assignLicense | changePassword | checkMemberGroups | getAvailableExtensionProperties | getMemberGroups | getMemberObjects | getObjectsByObjectIds | isMemberOf | servicePrincipalsByAppId | restore | verify
Entities and complex types
Entities
Application | AppRoleAssignment | Contact | Contract | Device | DirectoryLinkChange | DirectoryObject | DirectoryRole | DirectoryRoleTemplate | Domain | DomainDnsRecord | DomainDnsCnameRecord | DomainDnsMxRecord | DomainDnsSrvRecord | DomainDnsTxtRecord | DomainDnsUnavailableRecord | ExtensionProperty | Group | LicenseDetail | OAuth2PermissionGrant | Policy | ServiceEndpoint | ServicePrincipal | SubscribedSku | TenantDetail | TrustedCAsForPasswordlessAuth | User
Complex types
AddIn | AlternativeSecurityId | AppRole | AssignedLicense | AssignedPlan | CertificateAuthorityInformation | KeyCredential | KeyValue | LicenseUnitsDetail | OAuth2Permission | PasswordCredential | PasswordProfile | ProvisionedPlan | ProvisioningError | RequiredResourceAccess | ResourceAccess | ServicePlanInfo | ServicePrincipalAuthenticationPolicy | SignInName | UserIdentity | VerifiedDomain
Additional resources
- Learn more about Graph API supported features, capabilities, and preview features in Graph API concepts
- See Permission scopes to learn how the Graph API exposes permission scopes to secure access to Azure AD data, and how to configure your client to use them.