Get user properties from active directory based on user Id when user does not exist in the site using REST API

Question

Using the following rest api resource /_api/web/getuserbyid(1), I can get only the users who already have access to the site.

My problem is that I would like to get the user properties for all users from active directory,whether they have access to the site or not.

is there a way to achieve it? User profile service is not reliable.

Answer 1

You can get those details using Microsoft Graph API mentioned below

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-list?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Below are some helper links based on platform where you want to use Graph API

• SPFX - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/use-aad-tutorial#using-aadhttpclient
• C# - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-requests?tabs=CS