Add/Update authentication/phoneMethods is not working through Graph API

Question

Hi MS team,
As updating authentication/phonemethods for MFA is not avaialbe in MS graph 1.0 so I am trying to beta api.
According document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/authentication-post-phonemethods?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http, when I am calling the API with below url
https://graph.microsoft.com/**beta**/users/70ee3214-3b2f-41f9-8d35-3d64083b4771/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7

with PUT , I am getting below responce
{
"error": {
"code": "badRequest",
"message": "The requested authentication method id of [3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7] was not found for this user, and so it cannot be updated",
"innerError": {
"message": "The requested authentication method id of [3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7] was not found for this user, and so it cannot be updated",
"date": "2022-04-27T08:04:31",
"request-id": "034e1d8b-f1ec-479f-ae51-5c0d17eb2057",
"client-request-id": "6b06369d-ca36-d13c-11ec-6952ea5f7454"
}
}
}

And with POST ,
{
"error": {
"code": "UnknownError",
"message": "{\"Message\":\"No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'https://mface.windowsazure.com/odata/users('70bd3214-3b2f-41f9-8d35-3d64083b4771%40bbfb17a3-e6e2-4186-a75e-4a8197406887')/authentication/phoneMethods('3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7')'.\",\"MessageDetail\":\"No type was found that matches the controller named 'users'.\"}",
"innerError": {
"date": "2022-04-27T07:59:37",
"request-id": "706f7b77-be58-4226-a288-841657dd7a86",
"client-request-id": "c910545b-0765-115c-3128-d29329f1058e"
}
}
}

Anything I am missing here to call this graph api . Please help

Answer 1

Hi @Ganesh Jagdale ,

The document you are referring to is a POST method not PUT. Therefore you are getting a badRequest error

The endpoint used in document uses POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{id}/authentication/phoneMethods : whereas you have added an ID at the end of phoneMethods, which is why you are getting the error as Unknown Error.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Hi @Ganesh Jagdale

You need to add phone authentication for your users before you can update phone numbers.

1.Add phone authentication first, if you add phone authentication for other users, then you can't use Graph Explorer, should use postman to call api. Before that, make sure you have granted UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All application permissions to your app. Note: If your user already has a phone number you cannot add it again.

2.Update phone number:

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