directoryObject: checkMemberObjects

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Check for membership in a list of group IDs, administrative unit IDs, or directory role IDs, for the IDs of the specified user, group, service principal, organizational contact, device, or directory object. This method is transitive.

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.

Memberships for a directory object

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

Memberships for a user

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

Memberships for a group

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

Memberships for a service principal

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

Memberships for an organizational contact

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

Memberships for a device

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

HTTP request

Memberships for a directory object.

POST /directoryObjects/{id}/checkMemberObjects

Memberships for a user.

POST /me/checkMemberObjects
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/checkMemberObjects

Memberships for a group.

POST /groups/{id}/checkMemberObjects

Memberships for a service principal.

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/checkMemberObjects

Memberships for an organizational contact.

POST /contacts/{id}/checkMemberObjects

Memberships for a device.

POST /devices/{id}/checkMemberObjects

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

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

Parameter Type Description
ids String collection A collection that contains the object IDs of the groups, administrative units, directory roles, or roleTemplate IDs of directory roles, in which to check membership. You can specify up to 20 objects.

Response

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

Examples

The following is an example of how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/checkMemberObjects
Content-type: application/json

{
  "ids": [
    "80a963dd-84af-4eb8-b2a6-781e444d4fb0",
    "62e90394-69f5-4237-9190-012177145e10",
    "86a64f51-3a64-4cc6-a8c8-6b8f000c0f52",
    "ac38546e-ddf3-437a-ac5c-27a94cd7a0f1"
  ]
}

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": [
    "80a963dd-84af-4eb8-b2a6-781e444d4fb0", 
    "62e90394-69f5-4237-9190-012177145e10"
  ]
}