List memberOf

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get groups that the group is a direct member of.

This operation is not transitive. Unlike getting a user's Microsoft 365 groups, this returns all types of groups, not just Microsoft 365 groups.

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) GroupMember.Read.All Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application GroupMember.Read.All Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All

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

GET /groups/{id}/memberOf

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData query parameters to help customize the response, including $select, $search, $count, and $filter. OData cast is also enabled, for example, you can cast to get just the groups the group is a member of. You can use $search on the displayName and description properties. The default and maximum page sizes are 100 and 999 objects respectively.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
ConsistencyLevel eventual. This header and $count are required when using the $search, $filter, $orderby, or OData cast query parameters. It uses an index that might not be up-to-date with recent changes to the object.

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 groups and administrative units that the group is a direct member of

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/memberOf

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
      "mail": "group1@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled": true,
      "mailNickname": "Contoso1",
      "securityEnabled": true
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of all memberships

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/memberOf/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

394

Example 3: Use OData cast to get only a count of group membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices/{id}/memberOf/microsoft.graph.group/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

394

Example 4: Use OData cast and $search to get membership with display names that contain the letters 'Video' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/memberOf/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$search="displayName:Video"
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups",
  "@odata.count":1396,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"SFA Videos",
      "mail":"SFAVideos@service.contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"SFAVideos"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Use OData cast and $filter to get membership with a display name that starts with the letter 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/memberOf/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$filter=startswith(displayName, 'A')
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups",
  "@odata.count":76,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"AAD Contoso Users",
      "mail":"AADContoso_Users@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled":true,
      "mailNickname":"AADContoso_Users",
      "securityEnabled":true
    }
  ]
}