Getting Started with Microsoft Graph and Schema Extensions

Key Takeaways

however when I'm with mark hi there and delivered the options so mark what are what are the extensibility options in Microsoft graph yeah so there's two primary extensibility options with Microsoft graph there's open extensions which we talked about in a previous video and there's schema extensions which is what we're talking about in this video okay so what are the advantages of schema extensions so schema extensions like open extensions can be put onto a number of different types inside of Microsoft graph and they allow you to add your own information to the the types inside of Microsoft graph okay but the primary advantage to schema extensions is that you have really great control of it from the application plus you can actually filter your types based upon those properties so for instance if you put a property on users that contains their favorite color then you can filter down to users with just a particular favorite color okay so and can I create an extension for anything so you can't create extensions on every type inside of Microsoft graph but the major types like user and group and device and email and calendar event yes you can create extensions on those okay and would there be a disadvantage or something yeah so so scheme eccentrics are a little bit more complicated to use than open extensions you have to create them upfront when you create them you start a lifecycle attached to the to the schema extension itself and so it starts as in development and then it means it's only available to your application and then you promote it to available and at that point in time it's available to any application in any tenant and then eventually you can mark it as deprecated so there is a little bit more to know about schema extensions that open exchanges but it has its advantages too okay awesome that sounds exciting can we check a quick demo sure yeah so here we are in graph Explorer again logged in as Megan Bowen you already have a schema extension created in this particular case but we're gonna go ahead and create a group and put that schema extension on there okay so again we're going to show more samples we're gonna add our extensions category mm-hm at which point in time we see some extensions some open extension and some scheme extension properties show up okay so the first thing we're going to try to do is filter groups by extension property we can see that there's no groups that currently have either of these extensions on it okay we can also go look at the available schema extensions which is just going to fetch this scheme extensions out there we can see that there's a couple extensions that have been created in our tenant mm-hmm and we're gonna go ahead and create a new group with a particular extension property on it so we're posting here to groups we have all the normal information for a group but we also have our extension property directly on group so it's a tin Mis V underscore courses and you can see that we have three properties on on that so now if we run that query as mentioned previously we can go ahead and filter by groups with a particular extension property and look for matches that we care about awesome that was great Mart thank you so much for the overview sure I hope you all enjoyed the video please check our documentation on graft Microsoft com thank you