List group transitive members

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of the group's members. A group can have different object types as members. For more information about supported member types for different groups, see Group membership.

This operation is transitive and returns a flat list of all nested members. 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.

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

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

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it does not have permission to read a certain derived type (like device), members of that type are returned but with limited information. 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.

HTTP request

GET /groups/{id}/transitiveMembers

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData query parameters to help customize the response, including $search, $count, $top, and $filter. You can use $search on the displayName and description properties. You can also filter the results on the OData type, such as microsoft.graph.user or microsoft.graph.group.

This API returns up to 100 member objects by default. The maximum page size that you can request through the $top query parameter is 999 objects.

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.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
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 a 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}}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.group when the group is a Microsoft 365 group will return this error, because Microsoft 365 groups cannot have other groups as members.

Examples

Example 1: Get the transitive membership of a group

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/transitiveMembers

C#

// 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}"].TransitiveMembers.GetAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups transitive-members list --group-id {group-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



transitiveMembers, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").TransitiveMembers().Get(context.Background(), 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();

DirectoryObjectCollectionWithReferencesPage transitiveMembers = graphClient.groups("02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315").transitiveMembers()
	.buildRequest()
	.get();

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);

let transitiveMembers = await client.api('/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/transitiveMembers')
	.get();

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 VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->transitiveMembers()->get()->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.Groups

Get-MgGroupTransitiveMember -GroupId $groupId

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


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

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": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
      "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
      "mail": "group1@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of transitive membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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: text/plain


893

Example 3: Use the microsoft.graph.group OData cast to get only members that are groups

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

C#

// 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}"].TransitiveMembers.GraphGroup.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups transitive-members graph-group get --group-id {group-id} --count "true" --consistency-level "eventual"

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


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


requestCount := true

requestParameters := &graphgroups.GroupItemTransitiveMembersGraph.groupRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
}
configuration := &graphgroups.GroupItemTransitiveMembersGraph.groupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

graphGroup, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").TransitiveMembers().GraphGroup().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

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();

LinkedList<Option> requestOptions = new LinkedList<Option>();
requestOptions.add(new HeaderOption("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual"));

GroupCollectionPage group = graphClient.groups("{id}").transitiveMembers().microsoft.graph.group()
	.buildRequest( requestOptions )
	.get();

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);

let group = await client.api('/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.group')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.get();

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 VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

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

$queryParameters = GraphGroupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->transitiveMembers()->graphGroup()->get($requestConfiguration)->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.Groups

Get-MgGroupTransitiveMemberAsGroup -GroupId $groupId -CountVariable CountVar  -ConsistencyLevel eventual 

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

query_params = GroupRequestBuilder.GroupRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
)

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


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

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/v1.0/$metadata#groups",
  "@odata.count": 2,
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/927c6607-8060-4f4a-a5f8-34964ac78d70/directoryObjects/4d0ef681-e88f-42a3-a2db-e6bf1e249e10/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Group",
      "id": "4d0ef681-e88f-42a3-a2db-e6bf1e249e10",
      "organizationId": "927c6607-8060-4f4a-a5f8-34964ac78d70",
      "description": null,
      "displayName": "Executives",
      "groupTypes": [],
      "mail": "Executives@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled": true,
      "mailNickname": "Executives",
    },
    {
      "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/927c6607-8060-4f4a-a5f8-34964ac78d70/directoryObjects/d9fb0c47-c783-40a1-bce1-53b52ada51fc/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Group",
      "id": "d9fb0c47-c783-40a1-bce1-53b52ada51fc",
      "organizationId": "927c6607-8060-4f4a-a5f8-34964ac78d70",
      "displayName": "Project Falcon",
      "groupTypes": [],
      "mail": "Falcon@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled": true,
      "mailNickname": "Falcon",
    }
  ]
}

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

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.user?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$search="displayName:tier"&$select=displayName,id
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

C#

// 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}"].TransitiveMembers.GraphUser.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "displayName" };
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Search = "\"displayName:tier\"";
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "displayName","id" };
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups transitive-members graph-user get --group-id {group-id} --search ""displayName:tier"" --count "true" --orderby "displayName" --select "displayName,id" --consistency-level "eventual"

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


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


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

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

graphUser, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").TransitiveMembers().GraphUser().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

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();

LinkedList<Option> requestOptions = new LinkedList<Option>();
requestOptions.add(new HeaderOption("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual"));
requestOptions.add(new QueryOption("$search", "\"displayName:tier\""));

UserCollectionPage user = graphClient.groups("{id}").transitiveMembers().microsoft.graph.user()
	.buildRequest( requestOptions )
	.select("displayName,id")
	.orderBy("displayName")
	.get();

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);

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

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 VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

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

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


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->transitiveMembers()->graphUser()->get($requestConfiguration)->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.Groups

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

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

query_params = UserRequestBuilder.UserRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		orderby = ["displayName"],
		search = "\"displayName:tier\"",
		select = ["displayName","id"],
)

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


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

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/v1.0/$metadata#users(displayName,id)",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Joseph Price",
      "id":"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Use OData cast and $filter to get user membership in groups with a display name that starts with 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.user?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$filter=startswith(displayName, 'a')
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

C#

// 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}"].TransitiveMembers.GraphUser.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "displayName" };
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups transitive-members graph-user get --group-id {group-id} --filter "startswith(displayName, 'a')" --count "true" --orderby "displayName" --consistency-level "eventual"

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


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


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

requestParameters := &graphgroups.GroupItemTransitiveMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Orderby: [] string {"displayName"},
	Filter: &requestFilter,
}
configuration := &graphgroups.GroupItemTransitiveMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

graphUser, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").TransitiveMembers().GraphUser().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

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();

LinkedList<Option> requestOptions = new LinkedList<Option>();
requestOptions.add(new HeaderOption("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual"));

UserCollectionPage user = graphClient.groups("{id}").transitiveMembers().microsoft.graph.user()
	.buildRequest( requestOptions )
	.filter("startswith(displayName, 'a')")
	.orderBy("displayName")
	.get();

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);

let user = await client.api('/groups/{id}/transitiveMembers/microsoft.graph.user')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.filter('startswith(displayName, \'a\')')
	.orderby('displayName')
	.get();

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 VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

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

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


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->transitiveMembers()->graphUser()->get($requestConfiguration)->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.Groups

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

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

query_params = UserRequestBuilder.UserRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		orderby = ["displayName"],
		filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')",
)

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


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

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/v1.0/$metadata#users",
  "@odata.count":76,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"AAD Contoso Users",
      "mail":"AADContoso_Users@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}