Getting Started with Microsoft Graph Data Connect
Nik Charlebois
Senior Program Manager
Agenda
 Overview of Microsoft Graph data connect
 Demo: Exporting Office 365 data
 Demo: Building Insights Dashboard
Microsoft 365 Data Platform—Microsoft Graph
Graph APIs
Real-time access to data
M365 DATA
Graph Connectors
Data ingestion,
enrichment and indexing
Graph Data Connect
Bulk data access for insights and
analytics over a time period
Microsoft Graph
A new class of insight and analytics applications
is emerging
Data access @ scale
Data Privacy
Data Governance & Security
Dataset based access rather than real time
API based access
Row and column level scoping with
advanced filtering capability
Data controller has visibility over data
throughout its entire lifecycle
Architectural overview
Azure Data
Factory
Azure AD App
Registration
Microsoft 365
Dataset
Azure Storage
Account
Azure Data Lake
Storage
Available datasets
Users
Direct
Reports
Manager
Calendar
View
Events
Messages
(Emails)
Teams
Chats
Contacts
Mail
Folders
Mailbox
Settings
Sent
Items
Data privacy
• Granularly select fields to export as part of the dataset.
• E.g., Filter out email body;
• Select groups of users to export data from.
• Requires approval from selected individuals to initiate the data export.
• Can filter out users and groups at approval time.
Data Governance
and Security
• Data encryption ensures that customer
data is encrypted at rest
• Geo-fencing ensures all resources deployed
within the app resource group is in the same
Azure region
• Data Access Auditing available for blob
storage, and ADLS providing complete visibility
into operations happening on your data
• Enforcement if a data policy is violated,
the future flow of data to the Azure tenant
is stopped
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