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Converting CDATA AD connector to Timextender REST

  • July 17, 2025
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Hi,

I've got a couple of installations with customers using CDATA for AD/Entra integration, with the upgrade I found an article to advise moving them to REST.

I am however a bit lost on how to connect a REST API to Entra, and I couldn't find good documentation to fill it in.

Could someone assist us for a moment or maybe point us toward more complete documentation specifically on using the Enhanced Data Source to connect to Entra?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Jan DD

Best answer by rory.smith

Hi,

there is a tutorial here: 

What you will notice with the Graph calls is that you will get a default set of columns back (Users gives you 6 or so for instance). The CData connector seems to give you most of the columns in one go, so you will need to use the $select option to add the fields you need, see here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

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  • July 17, 2025

Hi,

there is a tutorial here: 

What you will notice with the Graph calls is that you will get a default set of columns back (Users gives you 6 or so for instance). The CData connector seems to give you most of the columns in one go, so you will need to use the $select option to add the fields you need, see here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http


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  • July 17, 2025

Thank you, I will check that out! I was so caught up in looking for Entra/AD stuff, I forgot to look at Graph.