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 |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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 |
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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
GET /directory/administrativeUnits/{id}
This method supports the $select
OData query parameter to help customize the response. Extension properties also support query parameters as follows:
Extension type | Comments |
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Schema extensions | Returned only with $select . Supports $filter (eq ). |
Directory extensions | Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq ). |
Name | Description |
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Authorization | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Don't supply a request body for this method.
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK
response code and administrativeUnit object in the response body.
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits/8a07f5a8-edc9-4847-bbf2-dde106594bf4
The following example shows the response.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$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"
}