Update emailAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update a user's email address represented by an emailAuthenticationMethod object.

Permissions

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

Permissions acting on self

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

Permissions acting on other users

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

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication Administrator Azure AD role.

HTTP request

Update the email method for your own account. For a signed-in user to update their own authentication method, they must have satisfied a multi-factor authentication requirement during sign in.

PATCH /me/authentication/emailMethods/{id}

Update the email authentication method for another user's account.

PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/emailMethods/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the emailAuthenticationMethod object with the updated email address.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you update the emailAuthenticationMethod.

Property	Type	Description
emailAddress	String	New email address.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod
{
	EmailAddress = "kim@contoso.com",
};
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.EmailMethods["{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewEmailAuthenticationMethod()
emailAddress := "kim@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmailAddress(&emailAddress) 

result, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().EmailMethods().ByEmailMethodId("emailAuthenticationMethod-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

EmailAuthenticationMethod emailAuthenticationMethod = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
emailAuthenticationMethod.emailAddress = "kim@contoso.com";

graphClient.users("kim@contoso.com").authentication().emailMethods("3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f")
	.buildRequest()
	.patch(emailAuthenticationMethod);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const emailAuthenticationMethod = {
  emailAddress: 'kim@contoso.com'
};

await client.api('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f')
	.update(emailAuthenticationMethod);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW FOR THE KIOTA BASED SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($requestAdapter);

$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setEmailAddress('kim@contoso.com');



$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->emailMethods()->byEmailMethodId('emailAuthenticationMethod-id')->patch($requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	emailAddress = "kim@contoso.com"
}

Update-MgUserAuthenticationEmailMethod -UserId $userId -EmailAuthenticationMethodId $emailAuthenticationMethodId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following is an example of the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content