What's new in Bicep templates for Microsoft Graph?

This article summarizes recent documentation and feature updates for Microsoft Graph Bicep templates. For more announcements, community discussions, and support, see the Microsoft Graph Bicep types GitHub repository.

July 2025

• Microsoft Graph Bicep is now generally available and supported in production environments, following the Microsoft APIs terms of use.
  • Microsoft Graph Bicep types v1.0.0 release which has the br:mcr.microsoft.com/bicep/extensions/microsoftgraph/v1.0:1.0.0 type version.
  • Minimum required Bicep version: v0.36.1.
• Debug logging is now supported. First enable debug logging using Azure PowerShell and then use the Azure CLI deployment operations command to see debug information with the Microsoft Graph request and response properties.
• Stream properties, like logo on the applications resource, are now supported. Create a client application with a logo demonstrates how to binary logo file as a stream property of an application.
• Creating your own client application to deploy Microsoft Graph resources interactively (using the user on-behalf-of flow) is now supported. Try out this dotnet command-line template deployment sample app available in GitHub.

March 2025

• Warning: The built-in Bicep extension for Microsoft Graph is retired. Only dynamic types are supported. All samples and quickstarts now use dynamic types.
• The Microsoft Graph Bicep types v0.2.0-preview release includes:
  • Enhanced relationship management (such as members and owners) for adding or removing any number of items. Template authors can choose between append (default) or replace semantics. For details, see the Configure a security group's user members, using user principal names sample and the modeling relationships in Microsoft Graph Bicep types article.
  • Support for setting the owners relationship on both applications and servicePrincipals.
  • Ability to output all relationship arrays, as shown in the Configure a security group's user members, using user principal names sample.

January 2025

• Bicep templates for Microsoft Graph now support national clouds.
• Introduced the read-only users Bicep type for beta and v1.0 with the Microsoft Graph Bicep types v0.1.9-preview release. See the Configure a security group's user members, using user principal names sample for usage.