How to get user properties from Azure AD

Question

I'm using standart snippet from MS library to get users and their properties from my azure AD . But unfortunately I found that this snippet doesn't get all properties that users have and only get their display name, fullname, surname, thats all, other properties are null , but I need to get all properties that users have. Im already google this question a lot and only found solution for LDAP that does not fit for me.

Image of JSON output of user properties:

[{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},{"Properties":{},"Id":null,"Display":null,"Department":null,"GivenName":"Example","Surname":"Example","UserPrincipalName":"Example@Example.com"},

So question is, how to get all user properties from Azure AD using C#?

My user model:

 public async Task<List<ResultsItem>> GetUsers(GraphServiceClient graphClient)
    {
        List<ResultsItem> items = new List<ResultsItem>();

        // Get users.
        IGraphServiceUsersCollectionPage users = await graphClient.Users.Request().GetAsync();

        // Populate the view model.
        if (users?.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (User user in users)
            {

                // Filter out conference rooms.
                string displayName = user.DisplayName ?? "";
                if (!displayName.StartsWith("Conf Room"))
                {

                    // Get user properties.
                    items.Add(new ResultsItem
                    {
                        Mail = user.Mail,
                        Display = user.DisplayName,
                        Id = user.Id,
                        Department = user.Department,
                        GivenName = user.GivenName,
                        Surname = user.Surname,
                        UserPrincipalName = user.UserPrincipalName                           
                    });
                }
            }
        }
      var jsonEmployees = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(items); // Convert to JSON
      return items;
    }

Answer 1

According to your description, I registered the AD v2.0 app and used MSAL for retrieving the access token by using the User.Read and User.ReadBasic.All scopes. Use fiddler to capture the network traces when getting users, I could get the response as follows:

As Microsoft Graph List users states as follows:

By default, only a limited set of properties are returned ( businessPhones, displayName, givenName, id, jobTitle, mail, mobilePhone, officeLocation, preferredLanguage, surname, userPrincipalName ).

To return an alternative property set, you must specify the desired set of user properties using the OData $select query parameter. For example, to return displayName, givenName, and postalCode, you would use the add the following to your query $select=displayName,givenName,postalCode

For a simple way, I just use the Microsoft Graph Explorer and access https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=Department,Mail,Display,Id,GivenName,Surname,UserPrincipleName as follows:

When using the client library, you could use the following code:

var users = await graphClient.Users.Request().Select("Department,Mail,Display,Id,GivenName,Surname,UserPrincipleName").GetAsync();

Details you could follow the Query options section under Microsoft Graph .NET Client Library Overview .

Moreover, you need to check if there has any more records and retrieve all users via the following code snippet:

var userList = new List<User>();
IGraphServiceUsersCollectionPage pagedCollection = await graphClient.Users.Request().Select("Department,Mail,Display,Id,GivenName,Surname,UserPrincipleName").GetAsync();
if (pagedCollection != null)
{
    do
    {
        List<User> usersList = pagedCollection.CurrentPage.ToList();
        foreach (var user in usersList)
        {
            userList.Add(user);
        }
        pagedCollection = await pagedCollection.NextPageRequest.GetAsync();
    } while (pagedCollection != null);
}

UPDATE:

I leveraged the Microsoft Graph Snippets Sample for ASP.NET 4.6 sample and registered my AD V2.0 app and replaced the ida:AppId and ida:AppSecret setting under my web.config file. It could work on my side as follows:

Using fiddler, I could capture the network trace for https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users and it could correctly return the user properties. I would recommend you debug your application and check the result after invoked await graphClient.Users.Request().GetAsync(); , also check the properties of the user instance when you iterate the users collection.