Why do I sometimes get a 404 when trying to update an Azure Directory object after I just created it?

Azure AD is a distributed computing system which means, all of the data must be duplicated to the various data centers. You can read about the architecture of Azure here. We occasionally see a case where a customer is using Microsoft Graph to programmatically create a user, group, application, etc. and getting the object id back from that request and then using that id to do some kind of management…

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