Microsoft's Graph is a RESTful web API that enables you to access Microsoft Cloud service resources. These span from Office 365 apps and data, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Azure services and all the data held within.

The Graph API is essential to programmatically engage with the Microsoft cloud and automate boring administrative tasks, create templates for complicated tasks and or essentially freeing up your time from mundane activity to do more fun interesting things.

The workshop will cover the following:
Agenda
Introduce myself
Setup your own demo M365 Developer Tenant

What is Graph API
What can it do?
Introduce Graph API Reference
Introduce the Graph Explorer
- Activity to use Graph Explorer
Application Registration, what is it and why?
Register an Azure AD Web Application
- Activity: Register an application in Azure AD
Defining Application Scope
- Activity: Grant access to M365 tenant
Authentication Methods
- Activity: Set a password
- Activity: Use a certificate to authenticate
Postman for API development
- Activity: Setup postman to use with Graph API
- Activity: Querying Graph API with Postman
Using scripts with Graph API (PowerShell/Python)
- Activity: Writing scripts to engage with Graph API
- Activity: Writing scripts to GET data
- Activity: Writing scripts to PUT data
Securing your password
- Activity: Methods to protect client secrets
Securing the application authentication
- Activity: Restricting access to application with conditional access.

All participants will get access to a GitHub repository with full instructions, workbook to follow, example scripts and links to supporting documentation.

While Microsoft Graph is the vehicle being used in this session the lessons learned will allow the participant to connect to and use any other RESTful API with confidence.

The participants will learn how to use Graph API to simplify their daily tasks and have the start of a journey in programmatically evolving their job.