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Get administrativeUnit

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of an administrativeUnit object.

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be a member user or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Directory Readers - Read basic properties and members of administrative units
  • Global Reader - Read all properties of administrative units, including members
  • Privileged Role Administrator - Fully manage administrative units, including members, but excluding restricted administrative units. For more information, see Restricted management administrative units in Microsoft Entra ID

HTTP request

GET /directory/administrativeUnits/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. Extension properties also support query parameters as follows:

Extension type Comments
Schema extensions Returned only with $select. Supports $filter (eq).
Directory extensions Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq).

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 administrativeUnit object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits/8a07f5a8-edc9-4847-bbf2-dde106594bf4

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/$metadata#directory/administrativeUnits/$entity",
    "id": "4d7ea995-bc0f-45c0-8c3e-132e93bf95f8",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "displayName": "Seattle District Technical Schools",
    "description": "Seattle district technical schools administration",
    "membershipRule": "(user.country -eq \"United States\")",
    "membershipType": "Dynamic",
    "membershipRuleProcessingState": "On",
    "visibility": "HiddenMembership"
}