Windows 10: what is "Migrate service principals from the retiring Azure ADGraph APIs to Microsoft Graph"

Pauline T. - OC-CA · Dec 7, 2024

I received an email from *** Email address is removed for privacy *** with a recommendation to "Migrate service principals from the retiring Azure ADGraph APIs to Microsoft Graph".I have no idea what it means. I looked at on line articles and still do not understand. Is recommendation for developers or IT professionals managing enterprise systems?I am a single user of MS programs Windows 10 and Office 365 on a PC and MS Surface Pro. Is there anything that I need to do to ensure programs continue to run properly? Or should I ignore this message as not applicable?Thank you.Pauline

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Brink · Dec 7, 2024

Public preview of Microsoft Graph APIs to manage Windows 10 updates

Gain rich control over the approval, scheduling, and protection of content delivered from Windows Update thanks to the new Microsoft Graph APIs, now available in public preview! Powered by the Windows Update for Business deployment service, these APIs enable IT professionals and app developers to:

Approve and schedule specific feature updates to be delivered from Windows Update – including skipping or not taking feature updates.

Stage deployments over a period of days or weeks using rich expressions (ex: deploy 20H2 to 500 devices per day, beginning on May 11, 2021)

Bypass pre-configured Windows Update for Business policies to immediately deploy a security update across your organization.

Deliver safer update results by leveraging automatic pilots for any deployment.

Microsoft Graph is the gateway to Microsoft 365, making it easy to build apps that span organizations, users, and devices. By connecting deployment service capabilities with Microsoft Graph, app developers can easily build rich update management tools and extend these experiences with contextual user data (such as leveraging a user’s calendar data when scheduling an update).

And the best part is, if you have one of the following Windows or Microsoft 365 subscriptions, you can start using the deployment service today!

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 (included in Microsoft 365 F3, E3, or E5)

Windows 10 Education A3 or A5 (included in Microsoft 365 A3 or A5)

Windows Virtual Desktop Access E3 or E5

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

What is the Windows Update for Business deployment service?

The Windows Update for Business deployment service is the bridge between you and Windows Update. It allows you to approve and schedule content approvals directly through a service-to-service architecture.

Here is a common scenario for the deployment service:

Using a management tool, you select the target devices and approve content to be deployed. This tool may be PowerShell, a Microsoft Graph app, or a complete endpoint management solution such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

The tool conveys your approval, scheduling details, and device selection to the deployment service.

The deployment service processes the content approval and compares it with previously approved content. Final update applicability is determined and conveyed to Windows Update, which then offers the approved content to devices on their next check for updates.

This service-to-service architecture complements existing Windows Update for Business policies while providing unique benefits:

Update management now goes beyond the individual device – allowing you to easily understand what updates are applicable to your organization and how best to stage deployments.

Reacting to update challenges is faster than ever before – whether you need to pause or accelerate a deployment.

New features and capabilities are immediately delivered to all in-support Windows versions – no operating system servicing required.

The Windows Update for Business deployment service is an enterprise-grade solution that provides full control over managed content and is already certified compliant with several industry compliance standards, including: ISO 27001, FedRAMP High, HiTRUST, and SOC II.

Try the service today

With today’s public preview release, you can use the Windows Update for Business deployment service directly through the Microsoft Graph API and associated SDKs, as well as Azure PowerShell. If you're an IT pro, you can leverage these APIs and SDKs within your in-house solutions. If you're a management tool vendor, these APIs and SDKs can help you provide deployment service capabilities to your customers through multi-tenant apps.

To begin exploring the deployment service, we encourage you to use Microsoft Graph Explorer or a proven industry solution, such as Postman.

Using Microsoft Graph Explorer to interact with the deployment service

Microsoft Graph Explorer is a tool that makes it simple to make requests and see responses against Microsoft Graph. To begin using Microsoft Graph Explorer with the deployment service, sign in using your tenant.

Next, provide consent for Graph Explorer to access the deployment service on behalf of your organization. Click the settings gear icon next to your account after signing in and choose Permissions. Select WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All and then select the Consent action.

You are now ready to begin using the service. In the left pane, you will find several samples for Windows Updates. Start with a basic operation like list catalog entries.

Interacting with the Windows Update for Business deployment service via Microsoft Graph Explorer

While you can immediately query for data provided by the deployment service—such as available content to deploy—querying for other content, such as deployments, will depend on what have been created for your tenant. You can use Microsoft Graph Explorer to explore the capabilities provided by the deployment service and understand how to incorporate these into your apps, including:

Enroll in update management. Enroll devices in feature update management by setting the enrollmentUpdateCategory to feature. This will stop offering feature updates to enrolled devices until explicitly approved using the deployment service.

Create deployment (expedited security update). If a new critical security update is released and you want to reach compliance as rapidly as possible, you can deploy the update as expedited and control settings like the number of days until devices are required to restart.

Create deployment (rate-based gradual rollout). Stage a deployment over time so that devices are offered the feature update at regular intervals and according to a specified number of devices per offer.

Create deployment (date-based gradual rollout). Stage a deployment over time so that devices are offered the update at regular intervals until all devices receive the update by a targeted end date/time. You may also use a start date/time with any deployment to control when to begin offering the update.

Update deployment (replace monitoring rules). Apply monitoring rules to any deployment to detect a threshold of issues, such as number of rollbacks, and then pause the deployment or alert you to the problem.

To learn more about these operations and the associated capabilities, please see our Microsoft Graph API documentation.

Using Postman to interact with the deployment service

Like Graph Explorer, Postman is an easy tool for interacting with the deployment service and a great way to familiarize yourself with the supported operations. For detailed instructions, see Use Postman with the Microsoft Graph API.

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When you reach step 3.9, follow the procedure to add and consent Delegated Permissions for WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All.

When you reach step 6, expand the Windows Updates (beta) folder of the Postman collection to see operations you can perform with the deployment service.

Select a request such as List catalog entries, ensure any required variables are populated, then click Send to interact with the service.

Interacting with the Windows Update for Business deployment service via Postman

Learn more

We're excited to see how you incorporate the deployment service into your apps. To learn more, see the Windows Update for Business deployment service overview and Microsoft Graph API documentation.
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...s/ba-p/2302751

Brink · Dec 7, 2024

Announcing the availability of Azure App Service

In a mobile-first, cloud-first world, companies are using apps to connect with and better engage their customers, partners, and employees anywhere, and on any device. They are relying on developers to build those apps with increasing speed –that can connect to popular services and on-premises systems and autoscale as the business needs. Today, I’m excited to announce Azure App Service, a unique new service which helps developers deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected apps faster than ever before.

App Service is a one-of-a-kind cloud service which allows developers to easily build employee, partner and customer-facing apps for any platform or device. This solution integrates the Microsoft Azure Websites, Mobile Services and Biztalk Services into a single service with a common app hosting, runtime and extensibility model, enabling simplified integration with popular consumer and commercial services and on-premises systems, all for one low price.

Azure App Service provides developers with everything they need to build:

Web Apps – Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, provide a robust set of Web app capabilities including support for the most popular Web development frameworks, such as .NET, Java, PHP, Python and more, and full DevOps support through continuous integration with Visual Studio Online, GitHub, Bitbucket and more. Web Apps enable enterprises to connect with existing apps and services on-premises through hybrid connectivity and AD integration while ensuring compliance, auditing and data retention requirements are met.

Mobile Apps – Mobile Apps provides a rich set of backend capabilities for native Windows, iOS and Android mobile platforms as well as multi-platform environments like Xamarin and Cordova. Mobile apps make it easy to engage users with push notifications, authentication with popular identity providers including Active Directory, and store cloud data including offline sync.

Logic Apps - Our new Logic Apps offering allows any technical user or developer the ability to automate process execution across popular consumer and commercial services as well as custom APIs on-premises to help solve even tricky integration scenarios with ease. Logic Apps also include our advanced set of Azure BizTalk service capabilities for even the most advanced enterprise integration scenarios.

API Apps – also new, API Apps provide developers the ability to discover, host, and manage APIs including built-in support for enterprise systems such as SAP, Siebel and Oracle and popular services such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and many others. With API Apps, developers can select from a rich library of existing APIs as well as create their own APIs easily for private or public use.

App Service builds on Microsoft Azure’s open, easy to use services, to let developers build apps for any device, and any platform, in a simple, integrated developer experience using their language and tools of choice.
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Source: Announcing the availability of Azure App Service - The Official Microsoft Blog

Brink · Dec 7, 2024

Announcing the availability of Azure App Service

In a mobile-first, cloud-first world, companies are using apps to connect with and better engage their customers, partners, and employees anywhere, and on any device. They are relying on developers to build those apps with increasing speed –that can connect to popular services and on-premises systems and autoscale as the business needs. Today, I’m excited to announce Azure App Service, a unique new service which helps developers deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected apps faster than ever before.

App Service is a one-of-a-kind cloud service which allows developers to easily build employee, partner and customer-facing apps for any platform or device. This solution integrates the Microsoft Azure Websites, Mobile Services and Biztalk Services into a single service with a common app hosting, runtime and extensibility model, enabling simplified integration with popular consumer and commercial services and on-premises systems, all for one low price.

Azure App Service provides developers with everything they need to build:

Web Apps – Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, provide a robust set of Web app capabilities including support for the most popular Web development frameworks, such as .NET, Java, PHP, Python and more, and full DevOps support through continuous integration with Visual Studio Online, GitHub, Bitbucket and more. Web Apps enable enterprises to connect with existing apps and services on-premises through hybrid connectivity and AD integration while ensuring compliance, auditing and data retention requirements are met.

Mobile Apps – Mobile Apps provides a rich set of backend capabilities for native Windows, iOS and Android mobile platforms as well as multi-platform environments like Xamarin and Cordova. Mobile apps make it easy to engage users with push notifications, authentication with popular identity providers including Active Directory, and store cloud data including offline sync.

Logic Apps - Our new Logic Apps offering allows any technical user or developer the ability to automate process execution across popular consumer and commercial services as well as custom APIs on-premises to help solve even tricky integration scenarios with ease. Logic Apps also include our advanced set of Azure BizTalk service capabilities for even the most advanced enterprise integration scenarios.

API Apps – also new, API Apps provide developers the ability to discover, host, and manage APIs including built-in support for enterprise systems such as SAP, Siebel and Oracle and popular services such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and many others. With API Apps, developers can select from a rich library of existing APIs as well as create their own APIs easily for private or public use.

App Service builds on Microsoft Azure’s open, easy to use services, to let developers build apps for any device, and any platform, in a simple, integrated developer experience using their language and tools of choice.
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Source: Announcing the availability of Azure App Service - The Official Microsoft Blog

Windows 10: what is "Migrate service principals from the retiring Azure ADGraph APIs to Microsoft Graph"

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