List members

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve a list of the users that are assigned to the directory role. Only users can be assigned to a directory role.

You can use both the object ID and template ID of the directoryRole with this API. The template ID of a built-in role is immutable and can be seen in the role description on the Microsoft Entra admin center. For details, see Role template IDs.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) RoleManagement.Read.Directory RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application RoleManagement.Read.Directory RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios, the calling user must be a member user or have at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles:

  • User Administrator
  • Helpdesk Administrator
  • Service Support Administrator
  • Billing Administrator
  • User
  • Mailbox Administrator
  • Directory Readers
  • Directory Writers
  • Application Administrator
  • Security Reader
  • Security Administrator
  • Privileged Role Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Customer LockBox Access Approver
  • Dynamics 365 Administrator
  • Power BI Administrator
  • Azure Information Protection Administrator
  • Desktop Analytics Administrator
  • License Administrator
  • Microsoft Managed Desktop Administrator
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator
  • Teams Communications Administrator
  • Teams Communications Support Engineer
  • Teams Communications Support Specialist
  • Teams Administrator
  • Insights Administrator
  • Compliance Data Administrator
  • Security Operator
  • Kaizala Administrator
  • Global Reader
  • Volume Licensing Business Center User
  • Volume Licensing Service Center User
  • Modern Commerce Administrator
  • Microsoft Store for Business User
  • Directory Reviewer

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it does not have permission to read a certain derived type (like device), members of that type are returned but with limited information. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

HTTP request

You can address the directory role using either its id or roleTemplateId.

GET /directoryRoles/{role-id}/members
GET /directoryRoles(roleTemplateId='{roleTemplateId}')/members

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. It returns a default of 1,000 objects and doesn't support pagination using $top.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get the members of a directory role using role id

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryRoles/23f3b4b4-8a29-4420-8052-e4950273bbda/members

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "businessPhones":["000-000-0000"],
      "displayName":"Adele Vance",
      "givenName":"Adele",
      "jobTitle":null,
      "mail":"AdeleV@contoso.com",
      "officeLocation":null,
      "preferredLanguage":"en-US",
      "surname":"Vance",
      "userPrincipalName":"AdeleV@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get the members of a directory role using roleTemplateId

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryRoles(roleTemplateId='4a5d8f65-41da-4de4-8968-e035b65339cf')/members

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "businessPhones":["000-000-0000"],
      "displayName":"Adele Vance",
      "givenName":"Adele",
      "jobTitle":null,
      "mail":"AdeleV@contoso.com",
      "officeLocation":null,
      "preferredLanguage":"en-US",
      "surname":"Vance",
      "userPrincipalName":"AdeleV@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}