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GET /beta/groups/{id}/members returns malformed JSON (500 spliced mid-stream) when serializing microsoft.graph.user members

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Description

Summary

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members returns a response with a 500 InternalServerError object spliced directly into the middle of the JSON array, with no separating comma/brace — i.e. the response body itself is invalid JSON.

Repro

GET /beta/groups/{id}/members against any group containing at least one microsoft.graph.user member. Observed with both a B2B guest user and a native member; servicePrincipal-type members in the same response serialize fine.

Actual response body (truncated, from a Terraform provider debug/trace capture)

{"@odata.context":"...#directoryObjects","value":[{"@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.user","id":"...", ... ,"identityParentId":null,"agentIdentityBlueprintId":null{"error":{"code":"InternalServerError","message":"The property 'isProvisionedToOnPremises[Nullable=False]' of type 'microsoft.graph.onPremisesProvisioningState' has a null value, which is not allowed.","innerError":{"date":"2026-08-03T14:03:31","request-id":"...","client-request-id":"..."}}}

Note the null{"error":...} — the error object is concatenated directly onto the previous field's value with no JSON separator, making the entire response body unparseable by any standard JSON decoder.

Impact

Any client reading this endpoint (in our case, hashicorp/terraform-provider-azuread, which depends on /beta/groups/{id}/members for azuread_group's members/owners attributes) gets a hard JSON parse failure instead of a clean HTTP error, since the malformed bytes appear inside an ostensibly-200-OK response.

Observed

  • Two independent tenants/regions/groups, both reproduced consistently (not once): one in a "Poland Central" backend replica, one in "France Central".
  • Confirmed via previous CI run history that the same query against the same groups succeeded as recently as 2026-07-30, and started failing consistently by 2026-08-03 with no client-side change (same provider version, same code, same group membership) — suggesting a server-side regression introduced in that window.
  • The property names involved (agentIdentityBlueprintId, onPremisesProvisioningState) suggest this may be related to the new Entra Agent ID schema additions to the user beta type.

Expected

A group members list containing user objects should serialize successfully, or fail with a clean HTTP error status — never return 200 OK with invalid JSON in the body.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing GET /beta/groups/{id}/members against a group containing a microsoft.graph.user member, using the Terraform provider debug/trace capture as the reference. Done means the endpoint returns valid JSON with a successful response, or a clean HTTP error instead of splicing an error object into the response body.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, powershell, terraform
Domain
api, backend-api-design
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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