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Architecture of Microsoft Graph

Architecture of Microsoft Graph

- [Narrator] An important part of understanding Microsoft Graph Security is first understanding the architecture of Microsoft Graph. As I mentioned earlier, Microsoft Graph can be thought of three main things. The first is REST APIs. These REST APIs are behind a single endpoint. They're behind permissions and licenses. So I'll talk more about permissions momentarily, but let's first briefly talk about licenses. Microsoft Graph exposes a large set of APIs through a number of M365 services. You pay for those services as a part of your licenses. Microsoft Graph is going to respect those licenses. It is not going to get around those licenses. Permissions, keep that in the back of your mind. That's a deeper topic. We'll get into that in a moment, but for now, just imagine that these APIs are protected by authentication and authorization concepts. Then you have connectors. Connectors allow incoming data to enhance M365 experiences. So the question over here is that there are two places…

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