Microsoft has extended the retirement date for the Azure AD Graph API by four months, moving the deadline from March 31, 2026 to July 31, 2026. The extension was granted in response to feedback from enterprise customers who needed additional time to audit and migrate applications that rely on the legacy API.
New retirement date: July 31, 2026. No further extensions are planned.
What You Still Need to Do
- Audit Apps Using Azure AD Graph API
- Migrate to Microsoft Graph API Equivalents
- Update App Registrations in Entra ID
Use the Microsoft Entra recommendations in the Entra Admin Center to identify apps in your tenant still calling the Azure AD Graph API.
Our Take
This is the right call, but Microsoft is underselling how disruptive it'll be. Users have built years of muscle memory around that Chat / Teams split — expect a wave of support tickets the week it lands. Get ahead of it with a quick communication to your users before it shows up, not after.
Bottom Line
Good change, bad rollout timing for unprepared orgs. Send a user comm now.
