List group members

Article
05/24/2024

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 group's direct members. A group can have users, contacts, devices, service principals, and other groups as members. This operation isn't transitive.

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)	GroupMember.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	GroupMember.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, GroupMember.ReadWrite.All

Important

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it doesn't have permission to read a certain resource type, members of that type are returned but with limited information. For example, only the @odata.type property for the object type and the id is returned, while other properties are indicated as null. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

In delegated scenarios, the signed-in user must also be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/groups/members/read or microsoft.directory/groups/members/limitedRead role permission, or microsoft.directory/groups/hiddenMembers/read role permission to read hidden members. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

Group owners
"Member" users
"Guest" users - have limited read permissions
Directory Readers
Directory Writers
Groups Administrator
User Administrator - Including hidden members
Exchange Administrator - Including hidden members
SharePoint Administrator - Including hidden members
Intune Administrator - Including hidden members
Teams Administrator - Including hidden members
Yammer Administrator - Including hidden members

To list the members of a hidden membership group, the Member.Read.Hidden permission is also required.

HTTP request

GET /groups/{id}/members

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $filter, $count, $select, $search, $top, $search, and $expand OData query parameters to help customize the response. The default and maximum page sizes are 100 and 999 group objects respectively. Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

OData cast is also enabled. For example, /groups/{id}}/members/microsoft.graph.user retrieves group members that are users.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
ConsistencyLevel	eventual. This header and `$count` are required when using the `$search`, `$filter`, `$orderby`, or OData cast query parameters. It uses an index that might not be up-to-date with recent changes to the object.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

An attempt to filter by an OData cast that represents an unsupported member type returns a 400 Bad Request error with the Request_UnsupportedQuery code. For example, /groups/{id}}/members/microsoft.graph.group when the group is a Microsoft 365 group returns this error, because Microsoft 365 groups can't have other groups as members.

Examples

Example 1: Get the direct membership in a group

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members


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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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



mgc-beta groups members list --group-id {group-id}

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryObjectCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().get();

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let members = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->get()->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Groups

Get-MgBetaGroupMember -GroupId $groupId

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.get()

Important

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

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
      "mail": "group1@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled": true,
      "mailNickname": "Contoso1",
      "securityEnabled": true
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of all membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

893

Example 3: Use OData cast to get only a count of user membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

893

Example 4: Use $search and OData cast to get user membership in groups with display names that contain the letters 'Pr' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$search="displayName:Pr"&$select=displayName,id
ConsistencyLevel: eventual


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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GraphUser.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "displayName" };
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "displayName","id" };
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

Important

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



mgc-beta groups members graph-user get --group-id {group-id} --search ""displayName:Pr"" --count "true" --orderby "displayName" --select "displayName,id" --consistency-level "eventual"

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


requestCount := true
requestSearch := "\"displayName:Pr\""

requestParameters := &graphgroups.GroupItemMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Orderby: [] string {"displayName"},
	Search: &requestSearch,
	Select: [] string {"displayName","id"},
}
configuration := &graphgroups.GroupItemMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphUser, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().GraphUser().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

UserCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().graphUser().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.orderby = new String []{"displayName"};
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"displayName", "id"};
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let user = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user')
	.version('beta')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.search('displayName:Pr')
	.select('displayName,id')
	.orderby('displayName')
	.get();

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\Graph\User\UserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new GraphUserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = GraphUserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$queryParameters->orderby = ["displayName"];
$queryParameters->search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
$queryParameters->select = ["displayName","id"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->graphUser()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Groups

Get-MgBetaGroupMemberAsUser -GroupId $groupId -CountVariable CountVar -Sort "displayName" -Search '"displayName:Pr"' -Property "displayName,id"  -ConsistencyLevel eventual

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.groups.item.members.graph.user.user_request_builder import UserRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = UserRequestBuilder.UserRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		orderby = ["displayName"],
		search = "\"displayName:Pr\"",
		select = ["displayName","id"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.graph_user.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

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

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#users(displayName,id)",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Joseph Price",
      "id":"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
    },
    {
      "displayName":"Preston Morales",
      "id":"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Use $filter to get group membership with a display name that starts with the letter 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{id}/members?$count=true&$filter=startswith(displayName, 'a')
ConsistencyLevel: eventual


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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

Important

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



mgc-beta groups members list --group-id {group-id} --filter "startswith(displayName, 'a')" --count "true" --consistency-level "eventual"

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


requestCount := true
requestFilter := "startswith(displayName, 'a')"

requestParameters := &graphgroups.GroupItemMembersRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Filter: &requestFilter,
}
configuration := &graphgroups.GroupItemMembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryObjectCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let members = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members')
	.version('beta')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.filter('startswith(displayName, \'a\')')
	.get();

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$queryParameters->filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Groups

Get-MgBetaGroupMember -GroupId $groupId -CountVariable CountVar -Filter "startswith(displayName, 'a')"  -ConsistencyLevel eventual

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.groups.item.members.members_request_builder import MembersRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = MembersRequestBuilder.MembersRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')",
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

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

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#groups",
  "@odata.count":76,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"AAD Contoso Users",
      "mail":"AADContoso_Users@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled":true,
      "mailNickname":"AADContoso_Users",
      "securityEnabled":true
    }
  ]
}

Example 6: Use OData cast to retrieve service principals added as group members

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/3802e9bb-0951-4e18-b9eb-f934b4241194/members/microsoft.graph.servicePrincipal


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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GraphServicePrincipal.GetAsync();

Important

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



mgc-beta groups members graph-service-principal get --group-id {group-id}

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphServicePrincipal, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().GraphServicePrincipal().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ServicePrincipalCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().graphServicePrincipal().get();

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let servicePrincipal = await client.api('/groups/3802e9bb-0951-4e18-b9eb-f934b4241194/members/microsoft.graph.servicePrincipal')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->graphServicePrincipal()->get()->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Groups

Get-MgBetaGroupMemberAsServicePrincipal -GroupId $groupId

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.graph_service_principal.get()

Important

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

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#servicePrincipals",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
      "deletedDateTime": null,
      "accountEnabled": true,
      "appDisplayName": "Contoso Azure App",
      "appId": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
    }
  ]
}

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List group members

Permissions

HTTP request

Optional query parameters

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Get the direct membership in a group

Request

Response

Example 2: Get only a count of all membership

Request

Response

Example 3: Use OData cast to get only a count of user membership

Request

Response

Example 4: Use $search and OData cast to get user membership in groups with display names that contain the letters 'Pr' including a count of returned objects

Request

Response

Example 5: Use $filter to get group membership with a display name that starts with the letter 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

Response

Example 6: Use OData cast to retrieve service principals added as group members

Request

Response

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