Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure AD Graph API are deprecated by December 31th, 2022

[tomkerkhove]

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure AD Graph API are deprecated by December 31th, 2022.

Deadline: December 31th, 2022 (was: June 30th, 2022)
Impacted Services: Azure Active Directory
More information:

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/update-your-applications-to-use-microsoft-authentication-library/ba-p/1257363
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-migration

Notice

Starting, June 30th, 2020, we will no longer add any new features to ADAL and Azure AD Graph. We will continue to provide technical support and security updates but will no longer provide feature updates.

Starting June 30th, 2022, we will end support for ADAL and Azure AD Graph and will no longer provide technical support or security updates. Apps using Azure AD Graph after this time will no longer receive responses from the Azure AD Graph endpoint. Apps using ADAL on existing OS versions will continue to work after this time but will not get any technical support or security updates.

Impact

Apps using Azure AD Graph after this time will no longer receive responses from the Azure AD Graph endpoint. Apps using ADAL on existing OS versions will continue to work after this time but will not get any technical support or security updates.

Required Action

Migrate to use Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph API instead

Contact

If you need additional help identifying which applications are using Azure AD Graph or ADAL, you can reach out to our team by creating a support request in the Azure portal. For any other questions, open issues, and feature requests, let us know through Stack Overflow by using the tag adal-deprecation or azureadgraph-deprecation.

More information

• Migrate applications to Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)
• Migrate Azure AD Graph apps to Microsoft Graph

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[tomkerkhove]

As per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/migrate-azure-ad-graph-overview:

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph is deprecated but won't be retired on June 30, 2022 as previously announced. Listening closely to your feedback about the challenges of migrating such a critical dependency, we're delaying the retirement date through at least the end of this year, 2022. We’ll provide a retirement update mid-calendar year including releasing more tools to help you to migrate your apps.