Get member objects

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Return all IDs for the groups, administrative units, and directory roles that a user, group, service principal, organizational contact, device, or directory object is a member of. This function is transitive.

Note: Only users and role-enabled groups can be members of directory roles.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

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

Memberships for a directory object

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

Memberships for a user

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

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

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

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

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

Memberships for a directory object

POST /directoryObjects/{id}/getMemberObjects

Memberships for a user

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

Memberships for a group

POST /groups/{id}/getMemberObjects

Memberships for a service principal

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/getMemberObjects

Memberships for an organizational contact

POST /contacts/{id}/getMemberObjects

Memberships for a device

POST /devices/{id}/getMemberObjects

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
securityEnabledOnly Boolean true to specify that only security groups that the entity is a member of should be returned; false to specify that all groups, administrative units, and directory roles that the entity is a member of should be returned.

Response

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

Example

Request
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{object-id}/getMemberObjects
Content-type: application/json

{
  "securityEnabledOnly": true
}
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",
        "4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540",
        "c9ee2d50-9e8a-4352-b97c-4c2c99557c22",
        "e0c3beaf-eeb4-43d8-abc5-94f037a65697"
    ]
}