Module 1: Summary | Microsoft Graph Fundamentals for Beginners

Key Takeaways

to wrap up this module let's do a quick review of some of the things we've learned about first off you've seen that microsoft graph provides a unified api that can be used to access data and intelligence stored throughout your organization that allows you to access data in microsoft 365 you can access device information and much much more by using tools such as microsoft graph explorer you can learn how to make calls get that data you need and then pull it into your custom applications we'll be learning more about that in the upcoming modules now as a developer this means you can learn a single endpoint as opposed to learning many individual service specific apis that's a big deal because we don't want to have to worry about learning a mail specific api and then maybe a calendar specific api it'd be nicer to just learn one and that is microsoft graph to be able to get data from a variety of sources and then finally we know that with microsoft graph you can enhance new or existing applications and automate workflows you can also increase efficiency and productivity by tapping into data that employees need you can include this type of data and intelligence in your own custom maps by calling the apis that we saw in microsoft graph explorer and later you'll see that through using client libraries we can actually make these calls using your chosen programming language and framework so that's a wrap on this first module in the next module you'll learn about a javascript application how to register that in azure active directory and make your first microsoft graph call