Manage-ExternalGraphConnector

SYNOPSIS

This console application can help you in managing custom connectors for the Microsoft Graph API. It connects to the Graph API and can handle the following commands:

View all registered connectors
View the search schema of all registered connectors
Create a new external connector
Delete an external connector
Register a search schema for an existing connector

SOURCE

https://github.com/dlw-digitalworkplace/dw-script-lib/tree/main/ConsoleApps/Manage-ExternalGraphConnector.

The code is also partly based on the PartsInventoryConnector sample: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-search-connector-sample/tree/main/PartsInventoryConnector

AUTHOR

Name: Robin Agten
Email: robin.agten@delaware.pro

Prerequisites

The code uses .NET Core 7 so this must be installen
A valid app registration (client id, client secret) with the following applicatoin permissions:
- ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.All
- ExternalItem.ReadWrite.All

Running the console app

Running in visual studio

Open Visual Studio Solution
Update the user secrets of the project (see the secrets_sample.json file)
Run the console application

Running in the command line

It is also possible to run it via the command line.

.\Imec.WhoIsWho.ConnectorSetup.exe -s "CLIENT_SECRET" -c "CLIENT_ID" -t "TENANT_ID"

Schema definition

To register a schema, you need to create it in the code base:

Create a new class in the Schemas folder
Make sure the schema inherits from the SchemaBase
Implement the GetSchemaProperties() method that returns a list of all properties (See the DemoSchema.cs file for an example)