Custom attribute in the Azure Active Directory


 Problem statement  

We are managing the data of BirthDate, HireDate and other custom attribute for Users in the SharePoint User Profile and checked the data added to User Profile are not available in the Azure Active Directory user’s profile. Also, we are using Azure AD for managing all other information of users.

So, is there any way to get that data to Azure AD or manage that fields in the Azure AD?

If we want to manage data for fields like BirthDate, HireDate or Hobbies etc. which are not available as inbuild properties in the Azure Active Directory then what will be the approach. Also, we must use only Azure AD to manage the user information and do not want to use the user profile to manage the information of users.

Solution

The data from the SharePoint User Profile is not synced with the Azure Active Directory. So, you will not get the BirthDate, HireDate and other custom attributes in the Azure AD.  

To manage the extra fields BirthDate, HireDate and other custom attributes in Azure AD, we need to create the custom attribute. And to add and get data from the attribute you must use the Graph API query and Graph Explorer to test the query. Here, we have also provided the approach to get data in SPFx SharePoint webpart and in .NET framework using CSOM.

To manage the extra fields in Azure AD which are not available in AD, we need to create the custom attribute. And to add and get data from the attribute you must use the Graph API query and Graph Explorer to test the query. Here, we have also provided the approach to get data in SPFx SharePoint webpart and in .NET framework using CSOM.


Follow the below steps for the solution to the above problem statement.

Create the custom attribute in the Azure AD

Step 1: Open the portal.azure.com in the new tab


Step 2: Click on the External Identities and then Custom User Attribute to create the new custom attribute in the Azure AD.




Step 3: Click on the Add button.



Step 4: Fill in the name of the attribute and select the data type and then click on create.


NOTE: You can get the details using Graph Explorer.

Follow the below steps to add and update the data to the created custom attribute.

Step 1: Open the graph explorer with the link below to add the data for the users.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

Step 2: GET query to check the user data

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=id,extension_605f513ba52e43a08961a1c90a28d36a_Birthday,userPrincipalName,displayName


NOTE: For the created extension attribute name

extension_605f513ba52e43a08961a1c90a28d36a_Birthday

Birthday = Name of the created attribute

605f513ba52e43a08961a1c90a28d36a = Id of the azure AD app get from the ‘App Registrations’


 

Step 3: PATCH query to add the data to the created custom attribute

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/userPrincipalNameOfUser  


Step 4: GET query to check the user data updated.

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=id,extension_605f513ba52e43a08961a1c90a28d36a_Birthday,userPrincipalName,displayName


To get the data of custom attributes for users in the SPFx webpart with React js

To get the details of users in the custom webpart, we need to use the MSGraphClient with the code below.



To get the data of custom attribute for users in the .NET framework using CSOM

Add the select query to the AD function call and while getting data use below:




                                                                                                          -    By Nancy Bechra





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