Get longRunningOperation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the status of a long-running operation, represented by a longRunningOperation object. A long-running operation is initiated when you reset a user's password. This resource type is also the base type for the richLongRunningOperation object that represents the status of a long-running operation on a site or a list.

The possible states of the long-running operation are notStarted, running, succeeded, failed, unknownFutureValue where succeeded and failed are terminal states.

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) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Not supported. Not supported.

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

  • Global Reader
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/operations/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method does not support optional query parameters to customize the response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the requested longRunningOperation object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/operations/{id}

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

{
  "status": "running",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-03-19T12-01-03.45Z",
  "lastActionDateTime": "2020-03-19T12-01-04.23Z",
  "id": "2d497bb-57bd-47a6-8749-5ccd0869f2bd"
}