From the course: Integrate Microsoft Graph in Your Applications
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Admin vs. delegated permissions
From the course: Integrate Microsoft Graph in Your Applications
Admin vs. delegated permissions
- [Instructor] Another very important concept that we need to master when working with Microsoft Graph, or for that matter, any API protected by Entra ID is app versus delegated permissions. Let's understand this. Well, stop me if you've heard this before. Microsoft Graph is built on the backbone of Microsoft Entra ID. But what does that mean? Well, Microsoft Graph is just a bunch of REST APIs. What that means is that it is a REST API that Microsoft has authored, and Microsoft has made available to us. So it follows all the Entra ID concepts. If you were to write your own API protecting your own data, the process for that would be pretty much identical to Microsoft Graph. Of course, Microsoft Graph has a different target, and it is a lot bigger than probably what we would build for our in-house applications. So the capabilities of Graph are a lot more. Essentially, this means that you're going to send an access token to Microsoft Graph, and in that access token, you're going to use…
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