presence: setPresence

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Set the state of a user's presence session as an application.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Presence sessions

A user can have multiple presence sessions because the user can be on multiple Teams clients (desktop, mobile, and web). Each Teams client has an independent presence session and the user's presence is an aggregated state from all the sessions behind.

Similarly, an application can have its own presence session for a user and be able to update the state.

The following is the precedence for how session states are aggregated:

• User-configured > app-configured (user-configured state overrides others)
• Among app-configured: DoNotDisturb > Busy > Available > Away

Note: When a user presence changes in Microsoft Graph, because the Teams client uses poll mode, it will take a few minutes to update the presence status.

Timeout, expiration, and keep alive

A presence session may time out and expire, so the application needs to call this API before the timeout, to maintain the state for the session; or before the expiration, to keep the session alive.

A presence session can time out if the availability is Available and the timeout is 5 minutes. When it times out, the presence state fades in stages. For example, if an application sets the presence session as Available/Available, the state would change to Available/AvailableInactive in 5 minutes with the first timeout, then Away/Away in another 5 minutes with the second timeout.

The expiration of a presence session is configurable with the expirationDuration parameter. When a session expires it becomes Offline.

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)	Presence.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Presence.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP Request

POST /users/{userId}/presence/setPresence

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
sessionId	string	The ID of the application's presence session.
availability	string	The base presence information.
activity	string	The supplemental information to availability.
expirationDuration	duration	The expiration of the app presence session. The value is represented in ISO 8601 format for durations. If not provided, a default expiration of 5 minutes will be applied. The valid duration range is 5-240 minutes (PT5M to PT4H)

Important

Provide the ID of the application as sessionId in the request.

Supported combinations of availability and activity are:

availability	activity	Description
Available	Available	Updates the presence session as Available.
Busy	InACall	Updates the presence session as Busy, InACall.
Busy	InAConferenceCall	Updates the presence session as Busy, InAConferenceCall.
Away	Away	Updates the presence session as Away.
DoNotDisturb	Presenting	Updates the presence session as DoNotDisturb, Presenting.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code.

Examples

The following request shows the application with ID 22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87 that sets its presence session for user fa8bf3dc-eca7-46b7-bad1-db199b62afc3.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/fa8bf3dc-eca7-46b7-bad1-db199b62afc3/presence/setPresence
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "sessionId": "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87",
  "availability": "Available",
  "activity": "Available",
  "expirationDuration": "PT1H"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Users.Item.Presence.SetPresence;

var requestBody = new SetPresencePostRequestBody
{
	SessionId = "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87",
	Availability = "Available",
	Activity = "Available",
	ExpirationDuration = TimeSpan.Parse("PT1H"),
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Presence.SetPresence.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users presence set-presence post --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "sessionId": "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87",\
  "availability": "Available",\
  "activity": "Available",\
  "expirationDuration": "PT1H"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphusers.NewSetPresencePostRequestBody()
sessionId := "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87"
requestBody.SetSessionId(&sessionId) 
availability := "Available"
requestBody.SetAvailability(&availability) 
activity := "Available"
requestBody.SetActivity(&activity) 
expirationDuration , err := abstractions.ParseISODuration("PT1H")
requestBody.SetExpirationDuration(&expirationDuration) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Presence().SetPresence().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.users.item.presence.setpresence.SetPresencePostRequestBody setPresencePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.presence.setpresence.SetPresencePostRequestBody();
setPresencePostRequestBody.setSessionId("22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87");
setPresencePostRequestBody.setAvailability("Available");
setPresencePostRequestBody.setActivity("Available");
PeriodAndDuration expirationDuration = PeriodAndDuration.ofDuration(Duration.parse("PT1H"));
setPresencePostRequestBody.setExpirationDuration(expirationDuration);
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").presence().setPresence().post(setPresencePostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const setPresence = {
  sessionId: '22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87',
  availability: 'Available',
  activity: 'Available',
  expirationDuration: 'PT1H'
};

await client.api('/users/fa8bf3dc-eca7-46b7-bad1-db199b62afc3/presence/setPresence')
	.post(setPresence);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Presence\SetPresence\SetPresencePostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new SetPresencePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setSessionId('22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87');
$requestBody->setAvailability('Available');
$requestBody->setActivity('Available');
$requestBody->setExpirationDuration(new \DateInterval('PT1H'));

$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->presence()->setPresence()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	sessionId = "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87"
	availability = "Available"
	activity = "Available"
	expirationDuration = "PT1H"
}

Set-MgUserPresence -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.presence.set_presence.set_presence_post_request_body import SetPresencePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SetPresencePostRequestBody(
	session_id = "22553876-f5ab-4529-bffb-cfe50aa89f87",
	availability = "Available",
	activity = "Available",
	expiration_duration = "PT1H",
)

await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').presence.set_presence.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK