Azure Active Directory Graph Client 2.0 - Context is not currently tracking the entity

Question

I have recently installed the Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library 2.0.2 Nuget package and am unable to add Members to Groups both adding a group to a group or adding

Answer 1

We’ve just released an update to the Graph client library, that fixes this problem. You should now be able to add members to groups. The mechanism is a little different from using AddLinks (and hopefully simpler).

We also have a new blog describing the client library which talks about this and many other things: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aadgraphteam/archive/2014/12/12/announcing-azure-ad-graph-api-client-library-2-0.aspx

For reference, to add a member to a group:

{groupObject}.Members.Add({entityObject} as DirectoryObject);

So for example, to update a group with a new user member:

myGroup.Members.Add(userToBeAdded as DirectoryObject); await myGroup.UpdateAsync();

NOTE: The same construct can be used to add users to a DirectoryRole object. Groups and users may be added to a group, however, for now, only users can be added to a DirectoryRole.

Hope this helps,

Answer 2

I had the same issue, and the documentation wasn't very clear, so maybe this will help others. You cannot add users as members of an IGroup, but only to a Group. You also cannot add IDirectoryObjects to the Members collection, but only DirectoryObjects. You must first cast your IUser and IGroup objects. The following code is what I have working at the moment:

var graphClient = new ActiveDirectoryClient(new Uri(ConfigHelper.GraphServiceRoot), async () => await GetUserTokenAsync(cache));
var actualUser = await graphClient.Users.GetByObjectId(matchedUser.ObjectId).ExecuteAsync();
var actualGroup = (Group) await graphClient.Groups.GetByObjectId(matchedGroup.ObjectId).ExecuteAsync();

actualGroup.Members.Add(actualUser as DirectoryObject);
await graphClient.Context.SaveChangesAsync();

Answer 3

I tried this new syntax but still does not work.

 public async Task<Result<dynamic>> addUserToAzureGroup(Group AzGroup, User AzUser)
 {
     // link the found user with the found group
     try
     {
         AzGroup.Members.Add(AzUser as DirectoryObject);
         await AzGroup.UpdateAsync();
     }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
         Exception myEx = new Exception(ex.Message);
         retResult.Exception = myEx;
         return retResult;
     }
     return retResult;
 }

I have almost the same error text in the execption message: The context is already tracking the relationship

Any news on that issue? Could anyone guess why that happens?

I also tried from the manage.windowsAzure.com UI and still cannot add the user! I get this error: Could not add members to group 'myAzAD_group'.