Update authenticationMethodsPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Update the properties of an authenticationMethodsPolicy 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) Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod Not available.

For delegated scenarios, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Policy Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

PATCH /policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy

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, supply a JSON representation of the registrationEnforcement object to prompt users to set up targeted authentication methods.

Property Type Description
registrationEnforcement registrationEnforcement Enforce registration at sign-in time. This property can be used to prompt users to set up targeted authentication methods.
reportSuspiciousActivitySettings reportSuspiciousActivitySettings Enable users to report voice or phone app multi-factor authentication notifications as suspicious.
systemCredentialPreferences systemCredentialPreferences Prompt users with their most-preferred credential for multifactor authentication.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code.

Examples

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "registrationEnforcement": {
    "authenticationMethodsRegistrationCampaign": {
        "snoozeDurationInDays": 1,
        "enforceRegistrationAfterAllowedSnoozes": true,
        "state": "enabled",
        "excludeTargets": [],
        "includeTargets": [
            {
                "id": "3ee3a9de-0a86-4e12-a287-9769accf1ba2",
                "targetType": "group",
                "targetedAuthenticationMethod": "microsoftAuthenticator"
            }
        ]
    }
  },
  "reportSuspiciousActivitySettings": {
      "state": "enabled",
      "includeTarget": {
          "targetType": "group",
          "id": "all_users"
      },
      "voiceReportingCode": 0
  }
}

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/beta/$metadata#authenticationMethodsPolicy",
  "id": "authenticationMethodsPolicy",
  "displayName": "Authentication Methods Policy",
  "description": "The tenant-wide policy that controls which authentication methods are allowed in the tenant, authentication method registration requirements, and self-service password reset settings",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-05-25T01:08:08.6712279Z",
  "policyVersion": "1.4",
  "registrationEnforcement": {
    "authenticationMethodsRegistrationCampaign": {
      "snoozeDurationInDays": 1,
      "nforceRegistrationAfterAllowedSnoozes": true,
      "state": "enabled",
      "excludeTargets": [],
      "includeTargets": [
        {
          "id": "3ee3a9de-0a86-4e12-a287-9769accf1ba2",
          "targetType": "group",
          "targetedAuthenticationMethod": "microsoftAuthenticator"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
    "reportSuspiciousActivitySettings": {
      "state": "enabled",
      "includeTarget": {
          "targetType": "group",
          "id": "all_users"
      },
      "voiceReportingCode": 0
  },
  "systemCredentialPreferences": {
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.systemCredentialPreferences",
    "excludeTargets": [],
    "includeTargets": [
      {
        "id": "all_users",
        "targetType": "group"
      }
    ],
    "state": "enabled"
  }
}