Set the preferred availability and activity status for a user. If the preferred presence of a user is set, the user's presence shows as the preferred status.
Preferred presence takes effect only when at least one presence session exists for the user. Otherwise, the user's presence shows as Offline.
A presence session is created as a result of a successful setPresence operation, or if the user is signed in on a Microsoft Teams client.
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/setUserPreferredPresence
In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.
Parameter
Type
Description
activity
String
The supplemental information to availability.
availability
String
The base presence information.
expirationDuration
Duration
The expiration of the app presence session represented in ISO 8601 format for durations. If not provided, a default expiration will be applied: - DoNotDisturb or Busy: Expiration in 1 day - All others: Expiration in 7 days
The following table lists supported combinations of availability and activity.
availability
activity
Description
Available
Available
Set the user preferred presence as Available.
Busy
Busy
Set the user preferred presence as Busy.
DoNotDisturb
DoNotDisturb
Set the user preferred presence as DoNotDisturb.
BeRightBack
BeRightBack
Set the user preferred presence as BeRightBack.
Away
Away
Set the user preferred presence as Away.
Offline
OffWork
Set the user preferred presence as Offline.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request that sets the preferred presence as DoNotDisturb for a user, with an expiration of 8 hours.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Users.Item.Presence.SetUserPreferredPresence;
var requestBody = new SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody
{
Availability = "DoNotDisturb",
Activity = "DoNotDisturb",
ExpirationDuration = TimeSpan.Parse("PT8H"),
};
// 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.SetUserPreferredPresence.PostAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewSetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody()
availability := "DoNotDisturb"
requestBody.SetAvailability(&availability)
activity := "DoNotDisturb"
requestBody.SetActivity(&activity)
expirationDuration , err := abstractions.ParseISODuration("PT8H")
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().SetUserPreferredPresence().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// 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.setuserpreferredpresence.SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody setUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.presence.setuserpreferredpresence.SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody();
setUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody.setAvailability("DoNotDisturb");
setUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody.setActivity("DoNotDisturb");
PeriodAndDuration expirationDuration = PeriodAndDuration.ofDuration(Duration.parse("PT8H"));
setUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody.setExpirationDuration(expirationDuration);
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").presence().setUserPreferredPresence().post(setUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Presence\SetUserPreferredPresence\SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setAvailability('DoNotDisturb');
$requestBody->setActivity('DoNotDisturb');
$requestBody->setExpirationDuration(new \DateInterval('PT8H'));
$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->presence()->setUserPreferredPresence()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# 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_user_preferred_presence.set_user_preferred_presence_post_request_body import SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SetUserPreferredPresencePostRequestBody(
availability = "DoNotDisturb",
activity = "DoNotDisturb",
expiration_duration = "PT8H",
)
await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').presence.set_user_preferred_presence.post(request_body)