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Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Graph integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph

Close the gap between analytics and operations: Azure Synapse Analytics holds the record while Microsoft Graph runs the day-to-day work, and Stacksync keeps the two in step in real time, in both directions.

Azure Synapse Analytics is the central store where teams keep External tables, Views, Schemas, Materialized views for reporting and analysis; Microsoft Graph runs the operational side of engineering work — tracking issues, moving messages and events, watching systems, and managing users and access. The two overlap wherever the same operational data matters to both: the Teams messages and chats, Planner tasks, Users, Groups and memberships produced in Microsoft Graph are exactly what analysts want to measure in Azure Synapse Analytics, and the curated rows in Azure Synapse Analytics are what should drive the next action in Microsoft Graph. When that overlap is bridged by nightly ETL or hand-written scripts, dashboards lag a day behind reality and the tools that should react to warehouse signals never see them.

Stacksync syncs External tables, Views, Schemas, Materialized views in Azure Synapse Analytics with Teams messages and chats, Planner tasks, Users, Groups and memberships in Microsoft Graph field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync matches records on a stable external key, keeps every copy consistent, and resolves conflicts by rules you set — so analytics and operations work from the same current data instead of two drifting copies.

Common use cases

  • 01 Publish warehouse aggregates (account health scores, LTV) from Synapse back into operational tools like a CRM.
  • 02 Sync curated Synapse views into an operational Postgres or Azure SQL database that applications can query cheaply.
  • 03 Read Teams channel messages and chats into a warehouse for conversation analytics and compliance archiving, and post messages back for alerts.
  • 04 Sync Planner tasks two-way with a project or ticketing database so task status, assignments, and due dates stay consistent.

Common sync patterns

Warehouse signals reach Microsoft Graph

A row scored, flagged, or enriched in Azure Synapse Analytics creates or updates the matching record in Microsoft Graph, so the operational tool acts on the same data the analysts already see.

Backfill history, then stay live

Load the existing set of Teams messages and chats, Planner tasks, Users, Groups and memberships into Azure Synapse Analytics once, then keep it current with every change — you get full history plus real-time updates without a separate pipeline.

No batch jobs to babysit

New and changed records move field by field the moment they change, replacing scheduled ETL and one-off scripts that fail quietly and leave stale rows behind.

What you can sync between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Azure Synapse Analytics objects Microsoft Graph objects How this pairing syncs
Schemas Namespaces that separate staging, integration, and presentation layers. Planner tasks Plans, buckets, and tasks via /planner; read and write task status, assignments, and due dates to keep project state in sync. Schemas is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Planner tasks to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized views Precomputed aggregates that speed reads of frequently synced result sets. Users Entra ID user accounts read and written via /users; create, update profile attributes, and enable or disable accounts with User.ReadWrite.All. Materialized views is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Users to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
SQL pools Dedicated or serverless compute contexts that determine how and where queries run. Groups and memberships Microsoft 365 and security groups via /groups; read and write name, owners, and add/remove members, with membership deltas surfaced by delta query. SQL pools is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Groups and memberships to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables (dedicated SQL pool) Distributed warehouse tables that serve as sync destinations for analytics workloads. Mail messages (Outlook) Messages via /users/{id}/messages; read and create drafts, update, and send with the sendMail action, so this surface is fully read-write. Tables (dedicated SQL pool) is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Mail messages (Outlook) to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
External tables Tables over files in the data lake, queried through serverless SQL and often read-only in syncs. Calendar events Outlook events via /users/{id}/events; read and write meetings, attendees, and recurrence, and accept or decline invitations. External tables is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Calendar events to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Curated projections used when downstream tools should not read base tables directly. Contacts Personal Outlook contacts via /users/{id}/contacts; full create, read, update, delete, synced two-way with CRM person records. Views is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Contacts to Microsoft Graph — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft Graph Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Azure Synapse Analytics for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on watermark columns.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Microsoft Graph through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Microsoft Graph Azure Synapse Analytics Sub-second propagation

DetectionMicrosoft Graph notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Delta query (change tracking) returns created, updated, and deleted items since the last deltaLink for users, groups, mail, events, contacts, and.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Azure Synapse Analytics as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Microsoft Graph: Throttled per app and per tenant, returning HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header; limits vary by service — the Outlook mail service allows about 10,000 requests per 10 minutes per app per mailbox with up to 4 concurrent requests, and delta and subscription tokens expire and must be renewed.
What ships with Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Microsoft Graph

Connect Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Synapse Analytics–Microsoft Graph connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure Synapse Analytics or Microsoft Graph instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Synapse Analytics or Microsoft Graph data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Azure Synapse Analytics or Microsoft Graph record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Microsoft Graph sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph.

How the Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph connectors work

Azure Synapse Analytics

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS) with T-SQL for SQL pools; additional Spark and pipeline surfaces exist but syncs use the SQL endpoint
Authentication
SQL authentication or Microsoft Entra ID
Change detection
Polling on watermark columns; Synapse SQL pools do not expose log-based CDC for downstream consumers
Capabilities
read · write

Microsoft Graph

Integration surface
Microsoft Graph unified REST API (v1.0 and beta) at graph.microsoft.com, spanning Microsoft 365 services — Entra ID, Outlook mail and calendar, OneDrive and SharePoint, Teams, and Planner; supports JSON $batch (up to 20 requests per call).
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform (Microsoft Entra ID). An app registration holds delegated or application (app-only) scopes such as Mail.ReadWrite, Calendars.ReadWrite, Files.ReadWrite.All, User.ReadWrite.All, and Group.ReadWrite.All; application permissions require tenant admin consent.
Change detection
Delta query (change tracking) returns created, updated, and deleted items since the last deltaLink for users, groups, mail, events, contacts, and driveItems; change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) POST near-real-time notifications to a notification URL and must be renewed before they expire.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Throttled per app and per tenant, returning HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header; limits vary by service — the Outlook mail service allows about 10,000 requests per 10 minutes per app per mailbox with up to 4 concurrent requests, and delta and subscription tokens expire and must be renewed.
How it works

How to connect Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Graph — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Azure Synapse Analytics connected
    Microsoft Graph connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Graph objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Microsoft Graph
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft Graph
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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