Update emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration object, which represents the email OTP authentication method policy for the Microsoft Entra tenant.

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)	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod	Not available.

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. Authentication Policy Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

PATCH /policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property	Type	Description
allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp	externalEmailOtpState	Determines whether email OTP is usable by external users for authentication. Possible values are: default, enabled, disabled, unknownFutureValue.
excludeTargets	excludeTarget collection	Groups of users that are excluded from the policy.
state	authenticationMethodState	Indicates whether this authentication method is enabled or not. Possible values are: enabled, disabled.

Note: You must include the @odata.type property with a value of #microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration in the request body.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
  "allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp": "enabled",
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
	AllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp = ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Policies.AuthenticationMethodsPolicy.AuthenticationMethodConfigurations["{authenticationMethodConfiguration-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc policies authentication-methods-policy authentication-method-configurations patch --authentication-method-configuration-id {authenticationMethodConfiguration-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",\
  "allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp": "enabled",\
}\
'

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewAuthenticationMethodConfiguration()
allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp := graphmodels.ENABLED_EXTERNALEMAILOTPSTATE 
requestBody.SetAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(&allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
authenticationMethodConfigurations, err := graphClient.Policies().AuthenticationMethodsPolicy().AuthenticationMethodConfigurations().ByAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId("authenticationMethodConfiguration-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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration authenticationMethodConfiguration = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration();
authenticationMethodConfiguration.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration");
authenticationMethodConfiguration.setAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled);
AuthenticationMethodConfiguration result = graphClient.policies().authenticationMethodsPolicy().authenticationMethodConfigurations().byAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId("{authenticationMethodConfiguration-id}").patch(authenticationMethodConfiguration);

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 authenticationMethodConfiguration = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration',
  allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp: 'enabled',
};

await client.api('/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email')
	.update(authenticationMethodConfiguration);

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ExternalEmailOtpState;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration');
$requestBody->setAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(new ExternalEmailOtpState('enabled'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->policies()->authenticationMethodsPolicy()->authenticationMethodConfigurations()->byAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId('authenticationMethodConfiguration-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();

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 = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration"
	allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp = "enabled"
}

Update-MgPolicyAuthenticationMethodPolicyAuthenticationMethodConfiguration -AuthenticationMethodConfigurationId $authenticationMethodConfigurationId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.email_authentication_method_configuration import EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration
from msgraph.generated.models.external_email_otp_state import ExternalEmailOtpState
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
	allow_external_id_to_use_email_otp = ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled,
)

result = await graph_client.policies.authentication_methods_policy.authentication_method_configurations.by_authentication_method_configuration_id('authenticationMethodConfiguration-id').patch(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 NO CONTENT