Get presence

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a user's presence information.

Permissions

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

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Presence.Read, Presence.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not Supported.
Application Not Supported.

Note: The maximum request rate for this API is 1500 API requests in a 30 second period, per application per tenant.

HTTP Requests

GET /me/presence
GET /users/{id}/presence
GET /communications/presences

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 200 OK response code and a presence object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get your own presence information

The following example shows how to get your own presence information. This operation requires the Presence.Read permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/presence

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 1574

{  
	"id": "fa8bf3dc-eca7-46b7-bad1-db199b62afc3",
	"availability": "Available",
	"activity": "Available"
}

Example 2: Get the presence information of another user

The following example shows how to get the presence information for another user. This operation requires the Presence.Read.All permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/66825e03-7ef5-42da-9069-724602c31f6b/presence

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 1574

{
	"id": "66825e03-7ef5-42da-9069-724602c31f6b",
	"availability": "DoNotDisturb",
	"activity": "Presenting"
}

Example 3: Get the presence information of another user

The following example shows how to get the presence information for another user. This operation requires the Presence.Read.All permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/communications/presences/dc74d9bb-6afe-433d-8eaa-e39d80d3a647

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "dc74d9bb-6afe-433d-8eaa-e39d80d3a647",
            "availability": "Away",
            "activity": "BeRightBack"
        }
    ]
}