phoneAuthenticationMethod: enableSmsSignIn

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Enable SMS sign-in for an existing mobile phone number registered to a user. To be successfully enabled:

  • The phone must have "phoneType": "mobile".
  • The phone must be unique in the SMS sign-in system (no one else can also be using that number).
  • The user must be enabled for SMS sign-in in the authentication methods policy.

This API is supported 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.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application Not supported.

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication Administrator Azure AD role.

HTTP request

Enable SMS sign-in for your own mobile phone authentication method.

POST /me/authentication/phoneMethods/{mobilePhoneMethodId}/enableSmsSignIn

Enable SMS sign-in for your own or another user's mobile phone authentication method.

POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/phoneMethods/{mobilePhoneMethodId}/enableSmsSignIn

The value of mobilePhoneMethodId for the mobile phoneType is 3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It does not return anything in the response body.

Examples

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7/enableSmsSignIn

Response

The following is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content