Update Azure AD group via MS Graph client library

In my previous posts I showed several scenarios of using MS Graph client library, see:

Work with Azure AD via Microsoft Graph API
Create Azure AD group and set group owner using Microsoft Graph Client library
Retrieve paginated data from Azure AD via Microsoft Graph Client library

In this article we will continue to get familiar with the MS Graph client library and see how to update Azure AD group programmatically. Examples in this post will use the same AzureAuthenticationProvider class for authenticating against Azure AD as in examples provided above so I won’t duplicate it here.

Here is how we can rename Azure AD group programmatically using MS Graph client library:

   1: renameGroup("oldGroupName", "newGroupName");

   2:  

   3: ...

   4:  

   5: static void renameGroup(string oldName, string newName)

   6: {

   7:     var graph = new GraphServiceClient(new AzureAuthenticationProvider());

   8:     var group = getGroup(oldName);

   9:     group.DisplayName = newName;

  10:  

  11:     var groupReq = new GroupRequest(graph.Groups[group.Id].Request().RequestUrl,

  12:         graph, new List<Option>());

  13:     var result = groupReq.UpdateAsync(group);

  14:  

  15:     do

  16:     {

  17:         Console.WriteLine("Result status: {0}", result.Status);

  18:         Thread.Sleep(5000);

  19:     } while (result.Status == TaskStatus.WaitingForActivation);

  20: }

  21:  

  22: static Group getGroup(string name)

  23: {

  24:     var graph = new GraphServiceClient(new AzureAuthenticationProvider());

  25:     try

  26:     {

  27:         var groups = graph.Groups.Request().GetAsync();

  28:         int requestNumber = 1;

  29:         while (groups.Result.Count > 0)

  30:         {

  31:             foreach (var g in groups.Result)

  32:             {

  33:                 if (string.Compare(g.DisplayName, name, true) == 0)

  34:                 {

  35:                     return g;

  36:                 }

  37:             }

  38:  

  39:             if (groups.Result.NextPageRequest != null)

  40:             {

  41:                 groups = groups.Result.NextPageRequest.GetAsync();

  42:             }

  43:             else

  44:             {

  45:                 break;

  46:             }

  47:         }

  48:         return null;

  49:     }

  50:     catch (ServiceException x)

  51:     {

  52:         Console.WriteLine("Exception occured: {0}", x.Error);

  53:         return null;

  54:     }

  55: }

At first in method retrieveGroup() we get reference on the Group object and update group’s DisplayName property (lines 7-9). Then we create GroupRequest object and call it’s UpdateAsync method (lines 11-13) and wait until request will be processed (lines 15-19). After that group will appear in Azure portal with new name. But note that if group was already used in Sharepoint Online site (e.g. for granting permissions on some site) changes won’t be synced here automatically – you will need to sync user profiles and then update user data in User information list.