Unable to update multiple properties on a user with a single request

Question

I was unable to update any of the following user properties(SharePoint Online): aboutMe, birthday, hireDate, interests, mySite, pastProjects, preferredName, responsibilities, schools, skills. With other user properties in one request. Following the documentation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-update?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

For example:

    public async Task UpdateUserTask(string userId)
    {
        User user = new User
        {
            AboutMe = "Im dev",
            GivenName = "Some One"
        };

        var _graphClient = GetGraphServiceClient();

        await _graphClient.Users[userId].Request().UpdateAsync(user);
    }

Implementation of GetGraphServiceClient:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/choose-authentication-providers?tabs=CS#client-credentials-provider

private GraphServiceClient GetGraphServiceClient()
    {
        string tenantId = "{myTenantId}";
        string clientId = "{myClientId}";
        string clientSecret = "{myClientSecret}";

        string[] scopes = new[]
        {
            "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default",
        };

        TokenCredentialOptions options = new TokenCredentialOptions
        {
            AuthorityHost = AzureAuthorityHosts.AzurePublicCloud
        };

        ClientSecretCredential clientSecretCredential = new ClientSecretCredential(
            tenantId, clientId, clientSecret, options);

        return new GraphServiceClient(clientSecretCredential, scopes);
    }

Response:

Code: BadRequest.
Message: The request is currently not supported on the targeted entity set

Although if you update these properties separately, they are successful updated (AboutMe and GivenName)

What I have:

API permissions for writing and changing data:

• Directory.ReadWrite.All,
• Sites.ReadWrite.All (for set SharePoint Online props),
• User.ReadWrite.All.
• Full premissions

And global admin rule.

Is there a way to update these properties using a single request?

I will be grateful for any answer :)

If you make the same query in Microsoft Graph Explorer, the result will not change

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}
{
    "aboutMe": "Im dev",
    "givenName": "Someone"
}

Answer 1

There is a note in the documentation that the following properties cannot be updated by an app with only application permissions:

aboutMe, birthday, employeeHireDate, interests, mySite, pastProjects, preferredName, responsibilities, schools, and skills.

Which is exactly your case because you've added only application permissions to your app in Azure.

Update

Another limitation can be that User is a composite type and some properties are covered by different services and Graph API doesn't support updates across multiple services.

According this User object in Azure AD has the following properties:

accountEnabled, ageGroup, assignedLicenses, assignedPlans, assignedPlans, assignedPlans, businessPhones, city, companyName, consentProvidedForMinor, country, createdDateTime, createdObjects, creationType, department, displayName, employeeHireDate, employeeId, employeeOrgData, employeeOrgData, employeeType, externalUserState, faxNumber, givenName, identities, imAddresses, isResourceAccount, jobTitle, mail, mailNickname, manager, mobilePhone, officeLocation, onPremisesExtensionAttributes, onPremisesImmutableId, onPremisesLastSyncDateTime, onPremisesProvisioningErrors, onPremisesProvisioningErrors, onPremisesSamAccountName, onPremisesSecurityIdentifier, onPremisesSyncEnabled, otherMails, passwordPolicies, passwordProfile, postalCode, preferredLanguage, provisionedPlans, ,provisionedPlans proxyAddresses, showInAddressList, state, streetAddress, surname, usageLocation, userPrincipalName, userType

When updating User, those properties cannot be updated together with Sharepoint Online properties.

aboutMe, birthday, hireDate, interests, mySite, pastProjects, preferredName, responsibilities, schools, skills