List authenticationMethodModes

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of all supported authentication methods, or all supported authentication method combinations as a list of authenticationMethodModes objects and their properties.

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.Read.All Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Policy.Read.All Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must 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.

  • Conditional Access administrator
  • Security Administrator
  • Security Reader

HTTP request

Retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions.

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/authenticationMethodModes

Retrieve the flat collection of authenticationCombinations objects, representing all the allowed combinations (allowedCombinations) in an authenticationStrengthPolicy object.

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations

Optional query parameters

This method does not support OData query parameters.

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 a collection of authenticationMethodModeDetail objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Retrieve authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions

Request

The following example shows a request to retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/authenticationMethodModes

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#authenticationMethodModeDetail",
  "value": [
    {
        "id" : "password",
        "displayName" : "Password",
        "authenticationMethod" : "password"
    },
    {
        "id" : "voice",
        "displayName" : "Voice",
        "authenticationMethod" : "voice"
    },
    {
        "id" : "softwareOath",
        "displayName" : "Software OATH tokens",
        "authenticationMethod" : "softwareOath"
    },
    {
        "id" : "sms",
        "displayName" : "SMS",
        "authenticationMethod" : "sms"
    },
    {
        "id" : "fido2",
        "displayName" : "FIDO2 Security Key",
        "authenticationMethod" : "fido2"
    },
    {
        "id" : "windowsHelloForBusiness",
        "displayName" : "Windows Hello for Business",
        "authenticationMethod" : "windowsHelloForBusiness"
    },
    {
        "id" : "microsoftAuthenticatorPush",
        "displayName" : "Microsoft Authenticator (push notification)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "microsoftAuthenticator"
    },
    {
        "id" : "deviceBasedPush",
        "displayName" : "Microsoft Authenticator (Passwordless)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "microsoftAuthenticator"
    },
    {
        "id" : "temporaryAccessPassOneTime",
        "displayName" : "Temporary Access Pass (one-time use)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "temporaryAccessPass"
    },
    {
        "id" : "temporaryAccessPassMultiUse",
        "displayName" : "Temporary Access Pass (multi-use)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "temporaryAccessPass"
    },
    {
        "id" : "email",
        "displayName" : "Email one-time passcode",
        "authenticationMethod" : "email"
    },
    {
        "id" : "x509CertificateSingleFactor",
        "displayName" : "Certificate-based authentication (single factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "x509Certificate"
    },
    {
        "id" : "federatedMultiFactor",
        "displayName" : "Federation (multifactor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id" : "federatedSingleFactor",
        "displayName" : "Federation (single factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id": "x509CertificateMultiFactor",
        "displayName" : "Certificate-based authentication (multifactor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "x509Certificate"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Retrieve the allowed authentication combinations

Request

The following example shows a request to retrieve the flat collection of authenticationCombinations objects, representing all the possible allowed combinations (allowedCombinations) that may be used in an authenticationStrengthPolicy object.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations

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#identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations",
    "value": [
        "windowsHelloForBusiness",
        "fido2",
        "x509CertificateMultiFactor",
        "deviceBasedPush",
        "temporaryAccessPassOneTime",
        "temporaryAccessPassMultiUse",
        "password,microsoftAuthenticatorPush",
        "password,softwareOath",
        "password,hardwareOath",
        "password,sms",
        "password,voice",
        "federatedMultiFactor",
        "microsoftAuthenticatorPush,federatedSingleFactor",
        "softwareOath,federatedSingleFactor",
        "hardwareOath,federatedSingleFactor",
        "sms,federatedSingleFactor",
        "voice,federatedSingleFactor",
        "x509CertificateSingleFactor",
        "sms",
        "password",
        "federatedSingleFactor",
        "email"
    ]
}