List settings

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a list of tenant-level or group-specific group settings objects.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

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

List tenant-wide settings

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

List group-specific settings

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

For delegated scenarios, the calling user needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

Microsoft Entra role	Allowed privileges
Microsoft Entra Joined Device Local Administrator Directory Readers Global Reader	Read basic properties on setting templates and settings
Groups Administrator Directory Writers	Manage all group settings
Authentication Policy Administrator	Update Password Rule Settings
User Administrator	Read basic properties on setting templates and settings Update settings

HTTP request

List tenant-wide settings.

GET /groupSettings

List group-specific settings.

GET /groups/{groupId}/settings

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response.

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 a collection of groupSetting objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Retrieve the tenant-level group settings

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groupSettings

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.GroupSettings.GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc group-settings list

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



groupSettings, err := graphClient.GroupSettings().Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

GroupSettingCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groupSettings().get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let groupSettings = await client.api('/groupSettings')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groupSettings()->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.group_settings.get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

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#groupSettings",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "f0b2d6f5-097d-4177-91af-a24e530b53cc",
      "displayName": "Group.Unified",
      "templateId": "62375ab9-6b52-47ed-826b-58e47e0e304b",
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "EnableMIPLabels",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "CustomBlockedWordsList",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "EnableMSStandardBlockedWords",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "ClassificationDescriptions",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "DefaultClassification",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "PrefixSuffixNamingRequirement",
          "value": "[Contoso-][GroupName]"
        },
        {
          "name": "AllowGuestsToBeGroupOwner",
          "value": "false"
        },
        {
          "name": "AllowGuestsToAccessGroups",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "GuestUsageGuidelinesUrl",
          "value": "https://privacy.contoso.com/privacystatement"
        },
        {
          "name": "GroupCreationAllowedGroupId",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "AllowToAddGuests",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "UsageGuidelinesUrl",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "ClassificationList",
          "value": ""
        },
        {
          "name": "EnableGroupCreation",
          "value": "true"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Retrieve the group settings for a specific group

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/05aa6a98-956a-45c0-b13b-88076a23f2cd/settings

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Settings.GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups settings list --group-id {group-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



settings, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Settings().Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

GroupSettingCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").settings().get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let settings = await client.api('/groups/05aa6a98-956a-45c0-b13b-88076a23f2cd/settings')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->settings()->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupSetting -GroupId $groupId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').settings.get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groupSettings",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "a06fa228-3042-4662-bd09-33e298da1afe",
            "displayName": "Group.Unified.Guest",
            "templateId": "08d542b9-071f-4e16-94b0-74abb372e3d9",
            "values": [
                {
                    "name": "AllowToAddGuests",
                    "value": "false"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}