Azure and Graph API

As seen in the previous documentation, Microsoft Office 365 is a very rich and complete environment. Combined with its development environment, "Azure", it provides a wide range of highly performant and optimized tools.

In this chapter, we will discover how to enable our Microsoft Azure tools to communicate with the Graph API and send/receive data across our 365 products.

The Graph API is a programming interface offered by Microsoft that allows access to and interaction with data and services from Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and other Microsoft services. It simplifies the management of users, groups, files, and other resources via RESTful requests.

As shown in this diagram, the Graph API is an essential core component between Microsoft applications and user interfaces.

In this documentation, we will see how to use the Graph API to retrieve Teams user data. For example, retrieving the statuses (Available, Away, Offline, Busy, etc.) of employees in a company in JSON format.