What is the main Ad's and Con's using MS Graph API vs MS Azure SDK

Question

We have teh need to interact with our customers AD from Jira in order to handle automatically user onboarding.

For that we have 2 deifferent approach :

1. Using Microsoft Graph API We call directly from Jira Script Runner plugin using groovy script POST and GEt methods, this directly within Jira environment

2. Using Microsoft Azure SDk for python

Using this approach will need to build a python script which is store in the dedicated location on the VM and calling that scrip from Jira using Groovy script

In the first approach we are using only 4 API call only for how request and we are all time scripting within Jira environement.

ON the second approach we need to deal with 2 types of script ( python and groovy)

Based on your advise, do you see what could be the best based on your experience in order to help me chose one or the other ?

Thanks for help regards

Answer 1

See https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-graph-api

We strongly recommend that you use Microsoft Graph instead of Azure AD Graph API to access Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) resources. Our development efforts are now concentrated on Microsoft Graph and no further enhancements are planned for Azure AD Graph API. There are a very limited number of scenarios for which Azure AD Graph API might still be appropriate;

Hence I will suggest Microsoft Graph