Developer guidance: MS Graph API or Azure AD Graph API

Are you an application developer who’re planning to build custom apps, but confused between whether you can use Microsoft Graph API or Azure AD Graph API? If yes, then this is for you.

• We strongly recommend that you use Microsoft Graph instead of Azure AD Graph API to access Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) resources.
• Our development efforts are now concentrated on Microsoft Graph and no further enhancements are planned for Azure AD Graph API.
• There are a very limited number of scenarios for which Azure AD Graph API might still be appropriate
• For more information, see the following,
• Microsoft Graph or the Azure AD Graph blog post
• Migrate Azure AD Graph apps to Microsoft Graph.

Hope this helps.

App developer guidance – Microsoft Graph API

Well, you might be using Microsoft Graph or Office 365 REST API or Azure AD Graph API’s, where you may see some functionality is not yet available in Microsoft Graph when compared to Office 365 REST APIs or Azure AD Graph APIs.

In that case, I would suggest the following guidance:

• For Office 365, if you don’t see the functionality you’re looking for, you can use the endpoint-specific Office 365 REST APIs.
• For Azure Active Directory, please refer to the Microsoft Graph or Azure AD Graph blog post on the features that are only available through Azure AD Graph API.

Also,

• If you are starting a new app, please use Microsoft Graph.
• If you are maintaining an existing project, use this documentation set for reference.
• In addition, plan your move to the latest APIs in Microsoft Graph to take advantage of all the new functionality and innovation there.
• If you are adding new functionality to an existing project, integrate that new functionality by using Microsoft Graph.

Hope this helps.

Cloud developer guidance: Microsoft Graph or Azure AD Graph?

This is one of the frequent query which i come across. whenever i talked to my app developer customers community. They wanted to know whether they should be using Microsoft Graph (developer.microsoft.com/graph) or Azure AD Graph (graph.windows.net); also i see good number of discussion threads talking the same. In order to conclude this and provide guidance/roadmap, Dan published this wonderful article. I would recommend to have a look at that before you start developing. Please refer https://dev.office.com/blogs/microsoft-graph-or-azure-ad-graph 

In general, we recommend the use of Microsoft Graph over Azure AD Graph, as Microsoft Graph is where we are investing for Microsoft cloud services.

Enjoy!!