Get longRunningOperation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Read the properties and relationships of a longRunningOperation object. This API allows you to retrieve the details and status of the following long-running Microsoft Graph API operations.

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.

For role management alerts

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) RoleManagementAlert.Read.Directory RoleManagementAlert.ReadWrite.Directory
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application RoleManagementAlert.Read.Directory RoleManagementAlert.ReadWrite.Directory

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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Privileged Role Administrator
  • Global Reader
  • Security Administrator
  • Security Reader

For authentication methods (password reset)

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Global Reader
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

To retrieve details of a long running operation of role management alert refresh:

GET /identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/operations/{longRunningOperationId}

To retrieve the status of a long running operation of authentication method reset:

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

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

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 a longRunningOperation object in the response body. For role management alerts, the resourceLocation contains the url of the role management alert if the operation status is succeeded; otherwise, the resourceLocation is empty.

Examples

Example 1: Retrieve the details of a long running operation for role management alert refresh when the operation status is running

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/operations/refresh:DirectoryRole_19356be4-7e93-4ed6-a7c6-0ae28454d125_StaleSignInAlert

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/$metadata#identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/operations/$entity",
    "id": "refresh:DirectoryRole_19356be4-7e93-4ed6-a7c6-0ae28454d125_StaleSignInAlert",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-06-09T22:50:41.5414467Z",
    "lastActionDateTime": "2023-06-09T22:52:09.0296021Z",
    "resourceLocation": "",
    "status": "running",
    "statusDetail": ""
}

Example 2: Retrieve the details of a long running operation for role management alert refresh when the operation status is succeeded

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/operations/refresh:DirectoryRole_19356be4-7e93-4ed6-a7c6-0ae28454d125_StaleSignInAlert

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/$metadata#identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/operations/$entity",
    "id": "refresh:DirectoryRole_19356be4-7e93-4ed6-a7c6-0ae28454d125_StaleSignInAlert",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-06-09T22:50:41.5414467Z",
    "lastActionDateTime": "2023-06-09T22:56:09.0296021Z",
    "resourceLocation": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityGovernance/roleManagementAlerts/alerts/DirectoryRole_19356be4-7e93-4ed6-a7c6-0ae28454d125_StaleSignInAlert",
    "status": "succeeded",
    "statusDetail": ""
}

Example 3: Retrieve the status of a password authentication method reset operation.

The ID of the operation to use in this request is retrieved from the response you get from the passwword reset operation.

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/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"
}