Getting the most out of the Microsoft Graph (formerly known as Office Graph) FABIAN WILLIAMS/ K2 Senior Technical Specialist

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1 Getting the most out of the Microsoft Graph (formerly known as Office Graph) FABIAN WILLIAMS/ K2 Senior Technical Specialist

2 Fabian Williams, MCSD, MCDBa, MCSE Sr. Technical Specialist K2 linkedin.com/in/fabiangwilliams

3 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

4 Developer vision

5 State of the world before Microsoft Graph Work and school Personal Many different APIs to access data Two separate auth stacks

6 Data spread across multiple services /yina_contoso_com/_api/v2.0/drive /designcouncil/_api/v2./drive s='graphquery:actor(me,action\:1020,or(action\:1020\,action\:1003,action\: 1001,action\:1024,action\:1005,action\:1037,action\:1039,action\:1036)'&Se lectproperties='docid,title

7 World today with Microsoft Graph Microsoft Graph ( Work and school & Personal

8 Single endpoint for: 1.Accessing data /me, /users, /groups, /messages, /drive,. 2.Traversing data /drive/items/<id>/lastmodifiedbyuser 3.Accessing insights /insights/trending What is Microsoft Graph? 4.Work/School and Personal

9 Integrating with Office 365

10 One Graph to rule them all One endpoint to access it: Operation GET my profile GET my files GET my photo GET my mail GET my calendar GET my manager GET last user to modify file foo.txt GET users in my organization GET group conversations GET people related to me GET my tasks GET my notes GET files trending around me Service endpoint

11 Goal to have all direct endpoint functionality in Microsoft Graph Functionality will likely show up first in direct endpoints Direct endpoints will continue to require resource specific access tokens We are starting the journey, more services are integrating

12 Building Apps using the Microsoft Graph Gateway to data and insights in Office365 Easy traversal of objects and rich relationships Web Standards, Open Platform Secure data access

13 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

14 Excel REST APIs

15 CRUD and navigation of a workbook s core elements Rich formatting and content/formula editing for cells, ranges and tables Data visualization through native charts Basic manipulation of external data bindings

16 Host: GET /beta/me/drive/items/<id>/workbook GET /beta/me/drive/items/<id>/workbook/worksheets GET /beta/me/drive/items/<id>/workbook/worksheets( sheet1 ) /range(address= A1:C1 )

17 People API

18 Search and browse for the people who matter most Dynamically ranks people based on communication, collaboration, business relationship signals. Augment search queries with topics discussed in previous communications Fuzzy matching for misspelled names Provides a complete view of an individual, combining properties from multiple Office 365 services. Organization charts don t always convey working relationships. Learn who your colleagues interact with most closely.

19 Host: GET /beta/me/people GET /beta/me/people?$filter=sources/any(s:s/type eq 'Directory') GET /beta/me/people?$search="alek Darou" GET /beta/me/people?$search="al topic: merger" GET

20 Events API

21 Attendees and Meeting Duration LocationConstraint, TimeConstraint MaxCandidates MeetingTimeCandidate with Confidence and Score (*)Only for Office 365 work and school accounts

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23 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

24 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

25 Use Microsoft Graph to build smart apps Gateway to data and insights in Office365 Easy traversal of objects and rich relationships Web Standards, Open Platform Secure data access

26 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

27 Roadmap More cloud services available on Microsoft Graph Intune, Skype, SharePoint Lists More smart intelligence and contextual data Richer graph queries Additional local regions Long term Expect Microsoft APIs on the Microsoft Graph

28 Session Flow Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Explore the Excel, People, Event, Mail API Demos Using Postman and a Visual Studio App Creating Sensible Apps using the Graph API Now and the Roadmap Ahead Questions Comments Answers

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