List transitiveMemberOf

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get groups that this organizational contact is a member of. The API request is transitive, and returns all groups the organizational contact is a nested member of.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) OrgContact.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application OrgContact.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All

HTTP request

GET /contacts/{id}/transitiveMemberOf

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData query parameters to help customize the response, including $select, $search, $count, and $filter. OData cast is also enabled, for example, you can cast to get just the groups the contact is a member of. You can use $search on the displayName property. The default and maximum page sizes are 100 and 999 objects respectively.

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept application/json

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.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/contacts/e63333f5-3d11-4026-8fe3-c0f7b044dd3a/transitiveMemberOf

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.group",
      "id": "id-value",
      "createdDateTime": null,
      "description": "All users at the company",
      "displayName": "All Users",
      "groupTypes": [],
      "mailEnabled": false,
      "securityEnabled": true,
    }
  ]
}