Get member objects

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  • Contributors
    • Lance Leonard (MSFT)
    • Jeremy Thake (Microsoft)
    • Office GSX

Returns all the groups and directory roles that a user, group, or directory object is a member of. This function is transitive.

Note: Only users can be members of directory roles.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All

HTTP request

POST /me/getMemberObjects
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/getMemberObjects
POST /groups/{id}/getMemberGroups
POST /directoryObjects/{id}/getMemberObjects

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type string application/json

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
securityEnabledOnly Boolean true to specify that only security groups that the entity is a member of should be returned; false to specify that all groups and directory roles that the entity is a member of should be returned. Note: The function can only be called on a user if the parameter is true.

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK response code and String collection object in the response body.

Example

Request
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{object-id}/getMemberObjects
Content-type: application/json

{
  "securityEnabledOnly": true
}
Response

Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(Edm.String)",
    "value": [
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",
        "4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540",
        "c9ee2d50-9e8a-4352-b97c-4c2c99557c22",
        "e0c3beaf-eeb4-43d8-abc5-94f037a65697"
    ]
}