directoryObject: checkMemberGroups

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Check for membership in a specified list of group IDs, and return from that list those groups (identified by IDs) of which the specified user, group, service principal, organizational contact, device, or directory object is a member. This function is transitive.

You can check up to a maximum of 20 groups per request. This function supports all groups provisioned in Microsoft Entra ID. Because Microsoft 365 groups cannot contain other groups, membership in a Microsoft 365 group is always direct.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Group memberships for a directory object

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) User.ReadBasic.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All and Group.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All

Group memberships for a user

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) User.ReadBasic.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All and Group.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All

Group memberships for a group

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

Group memberships for a service principal

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

Group memberships for an organizational contact

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

Group memberships for a device

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

HTTP request

Group memberships for a directory object (user, group, service principal, or organizational contact).

POST /directoryObjects/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for the signed-in user or other users.

POST /me/checkMemberGroups
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a group.

POST /groups/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a service principal.

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for an organizational contact.

POST /contacts/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a device.

POST /devices/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
groupIds String collection A collection that contains the object IDs of the groups in which to check membership. Up to 20 groups may be specified.

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK response code and String collection object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Check group memberships for a directory object

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e/checkMemberGroups
Content-type: application/json

{
    "groupIds": [
        "f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
        "bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",
        "93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
        "f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
        "c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"
    ]
}

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#Collection(Edm.String)",
    "value": [
        "f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
        "93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
        "f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
        "c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"
    ]
}

Example 2: Check group memberships for the signed-in user

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/checkMemberGroups
Content-type: application/json

{
  "groupIds": [
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64b130f4eb9e75525e",
        "4fe90ae065a-478b9400e0a0e1cbd540"
  ]
}

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#Collection(Edm.String)",
  "value": [
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e"
  ]
}