List authenticationMethodModes

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Policy.Read.All, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess, Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application Policy.Read.All, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess, Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod

HTTP request

Retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions.

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrengths/authenticationMethodModes

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

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrengths/authenticationCombinations

Optional query parameters

This method does not support OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Do not 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 is an example of a request to retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions. .

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrengths/authenticationMethodModes

Response

The following is an example of 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 (multi-factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id" : "federatedSingleFactor",
        "displayName" : "Federation (single-factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id": "x509CertificateMultiFactor",
        "displayName" : "Certificate-based authentication (multi-factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "x509Certificate"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Retrieve the allowed authentication combinations

Request

The following is an example of 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/beta/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrengths/authenticationCombinations

Response

The following is an example of 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/beta/$metadata#identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrengths/authenticationCombinations",
    "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"
    ]
}