List recommendations

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.

Get a list of the recommendation 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) DirectoryRecommendations.Read.All DirectoryRecommendations.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application DirectoryRecommendations.Read.All DirectoryRecommendations.ReadWrite.All

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.

  • Reports Reader
  • Security Reader
  • Global Reader
  • Security Operator
  • Application Administrator
  • Security Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator

HTTP request

GET /directory/recommendations

Optional query parameters

This method supports $select and $filter OData query parameters to help customize the response. $expand is supported by the impactedResources relationship. For general information, see 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 recommendation objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get the list of recommendations

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/recommendations

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/beta/$metadata#directory/recommendations",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA",
      "recommendationType": "turnOffPerUserMFA",
      "createdDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
      "impactStartDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
      "postponeUntilDateTime": null,
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-01-10T22:57:10.2509132Z",
      "lastModifiedBy": "b5fa65db-0d2b-4233-8788-ab0213567669",
      "currentScore": 0.0,
      "maxScore": 5.0,
      "displayName": "Convert from per-user MFA to Conditional Access MFA",
      "featureAreas": [
          "conditionalAccess"
      ],
      "insights": "13 users are currently configured for per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). However, there are 6 users configured for Conditional Access (CA) MFA. The per-user MFA configuration supersedes the MFA settings applied via CA policies, potentially creating unnecessary MFA prompts.",
      "benefits": "Improve user productivity and minimize sign-in time with fewer MFA prompts. Ensure that your most sensitive resources can have the tighest controls, while your least sensitive resources can be more freely accessible.",
      "category": "identityBestPractice",
      "status": "active",
      "priority": "medium",
      "releaseType": "preview",
      "impactType": "users",
      "remediationImpact": "",
      "actionSteps": [
        {
          "stepNumber": 1,
          "text": "1. To get started, confirm that there is an existing CA policy with an MFA requirement. Ensure that you are covering all resources and users you would like to secure with MFA.",
          "actionUrl": {
              "displayName": "Click here to view your CA policies",
              "url": "https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/PoliciesTemplateBlade"
          }
        },
        {
          "stepNumber": 2,
          "text": "2. To require MFA via a CA policy, follow the steps in this tutorial.",
          "actionUrl": {
              "displayName": "Secure user sign-in events with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication",
              "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa?toc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/toc.json&bc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/breadcrumb/toc.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "stepNumber": 3,
          "text": "3. Ensure that the per-user MFA configuration is turned off",
          "actionUrl": {
              "displayName": "Navigate to MFA settings.",
              "url": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/UserManagement/MfaSettings.aspx"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
  ]        
}

Example 2: Get a recommendation object without its associated resources by the recommendationType

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/recommendations?$filter=recommendationType eq 'turnOffPerUserMFA'

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/beta/$metadata#directory/recommendations/$entity",
  "id": "0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA",
  "recommendationType": "turnOffPerUserMFA",
  "createdDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "impactStartDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "postponeUntilDateTime": null,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-01-10T22:57:10.2509132Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": "d5a3853c-8e04-42b6-a530-bf159e99174a",
  "currentScore": 0.0,
  "maxScore": 5.0,
  "displayName": "Convert from per-user MFA to Conditional Access MFA",
  "featureAreas": [
    "conditionalAccess"
  ],
  "insights": "13 users are currently configured for per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)...",
  "benefits": "Improve user productivity and minimize sign-in time with fewer MFA prompts...",
  "category": "identityBestPractice",
  "status": "active",
  "priority": "medium",
  "releaseType": "preview",
  "impactType": "users",
  "remediationImpact": "",
  "actionSteps": [
    {
      "stepNumber": 1,
      "text": "1. To get started, confirm that...",
      "actionUrl": {
        "displayName": "Click here to view your CA policies",
        "url": "https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/PoliciesTemplateBlade"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 2,
      "text": "2. To require MFA via a CA policy, follow the steps in this tutorial.",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Secure user sign-in events with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication",
          "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa?toc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/toc.json&bc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/breadcrumb/toc.json"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 3,
      "text": "3. Ensure that the per-user MFA configuration is turned off",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Navigate to MFA settings.",
          "url": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/UserManagement/MfaSettings.aspx"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example 3: Get a recommendation object with its associated impacted resources

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/recommendations?$filter=id eq '0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA'&$expand=impactedResources

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/beta/$metadata#directory/recommendations(impactedResources())",
  "id": "0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA",
  "recommendationType": "turnOffPerUserMFA",
  "createdDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "impactStartDateTime": "2022-02-28T02:53:00Z",
  "postponeUntilDateTime": null,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-01-10T22:57:10.2509132Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": "d5a3853c-8e04-42b6-a530-bf159e99174a",
  "currentScore": 0.0,
  "maxScore": 5.0,
  "displayName": "Convert from per-user MFA to Conditional Access MFA",
  "featureAreas": [
    "conditionalAccess"
  ],
  "insights": "13 users are currently configured for per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). However, there are 6 users configured for Conditional Access (CA) MFA. The per-user MFA configuration supersedes the MFA settings applied via CA policies, potentially creating unnecessary MFA prompts.",
  "benefits": "Improve user productivity and minimize sign-in time with fewer MFA prompts. Ensure that your most sensitive resources can have the tighest controls, while your least sensitive resources can be more freely accessible.",
  "category": "identityBestPractice",
  "status": "active",
  "priority": "medium",
  "releaseType": "preview",
  "impactType": "users",
  "remediationImpact": "",
  "actionSteps": [
    {
      "stepNumber": 1,
      "text": "1. To get started, confirm that there is an existing CA policy with an MFA requirement. Ensure that you are covering all resources and users you would like to secure with MFA.",
      "actionUrl": {
        "displayName": "Click here to view your CA policies",
        "url": "https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/PoliciesTemplateBlade"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 2,
      "text": "2. To require MFA via a CA policy, follow the steps in this tutorial.",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Secure user sign-in events with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication",
          "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa?toc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/toc.json&bc=/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/breadcrumb/toc.json"
      }
    },
    {
      "stepNumber": 3,
      "text": "3. Ensure that the per-user MFA configuration is turned off",
      "actionUrl": {
          "displayName": "Navigate to MFA settings.",
          "url": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/UserManagement/MfaSettings.aspx"
      }
    }
  ],
  "impactedResources@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#directory/recommendations('0cb31920-84b9-471f-a6fb-468c1a847088_Microsoft.Identity.IAM.Insights.TurnOffPerUserMFA')/impactedResources",
  "impactedResources": []
}