Get directoryRole

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties of a directoryRole object. The role must be activated in tenant for a successful response.

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

HTTP request

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

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

Optional query parameters

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

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

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

Examples

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

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles/43a63cc2-582b-4d81-a79d-1591f91d5558

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.DirectoryRoles["{directoryRole-id}"].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 directory-roles get --directory-role-id {directoryRole-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)



directoryRoles, err := graphClient.DirectoryRoles().ByDirectoryRoleId("directoryRole-id").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);

DirectoryRole result = graphClient.directoryRoles().byDirectoryRoleId("{directoryRole-id}").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 directoryRole = await client.api('/directoryRoles/43a63cc2-582b-4d81-a79d-1591f91d5558')
	.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->directoryRoles()->byDirectoryRoleId('directoryRole-id')->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.Identity.DirectoryManagement

Get-MgDirectoryRole -DirectoryRoleId $directoryRoleId

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.directory_roles.by_directory_role_id('directoryRole-id').get()

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

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/$metadata#directoryRoles/$entity",
    "id": "43a63cc2-582b-4d81-a79d-1591f91d5558",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "description": "Can manage all aspects of Azure AD and Microsoft services that use Azure AD identities.",
    "displayName": "Global Administrator",
    "roleTemplateId": "62e90394-69f5-4237-9190-012177145e10"
}

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

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles(roleTemplateId='43a63cc2-582b-4d81-a79d-1591f91d5558')

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/$metadata#directoryRoles/$entity",
    "id": "43a63cc2-582b-4d81-a79d-1591f91d5558",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "description": "Can manage all aspects of Azure AD and Microsoft services that use Azure AD identities.",
    "displayName": "Global Administrator",
    "roleTemplateId": "62e90394-69f5-4237-9190-012177145e10"
}