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Microsoft Recommends the UnifiedRoleDefinition Graph API for Role Assignment Automation

Microsoft Recommends the UnifiedRoleDefinition Graph API for Role Assignment Automation
Microsoft recommends that developers move from the older DirectoryRoles Graph API and use the UnifiedRoleDefinition API instead. Changing APIs will impact the code in any PowerShell scripts used to automate role assignments. In this article, we review some examples of the older way to assign roles and show how to do the same tasks with the new API.

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