Get unifiedRoleDefinition

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Read the properties and relationships of a unifiedRoleDefinition object.

The following role-based access control (RBAC) providers are currently supported:

• directory (Microsoft Entra directory roles)
• entitlement management (Microsoft Entra entitlement management)

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.

For the directory (Microsoft Entra ID) provider

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

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with one of the following role permissions:

• microsoft.directory/roleDefinitions/standard/read (least privileged)
• microsoft.directory/roleDefinitions/allProperties/read
• microsoft.directory/roleDefinitions/allProperties/allTasks

The least privileged roles supported for this operation are as follows, in the order of least to most privileged:

• Directory Readers
• Global Reader
• Privileged Role Administrator

For the entitlement management provider

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

HTTP request

Get a role definition for the directory provider:

GET /roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/{id}

Get a role definition for the entitlement management provider:

GET /roleManagement/entitlementManagement/roleDefinitions/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the requested unifiedRoleDefinition object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get the definition of a custom role

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/f189965f-f560-4c59-9101-933d4c87a91a

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.RoleManagement.Directory.RoleDefinitions["{unifiedRoleDefinition-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc role-management directory role-definitions get --unified-role-definition-id {unifiedRoleDefinition-id}

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"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
roleDefinitions, err := graphClient.RoleManagement().Directory().RoleDefinitions().ByUnifiedRoleDefinitionId("unifiedRoleDefinition-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

UnifiedRoleDefinition result = graphClient.roleManagement().directory().roleDefinitions().byUnifiedRoleDefinitionId("{unifiedRoleDefinition-id}").get();

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);

let unifiedRoleDefinition = await client.api('/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/f189965f-f560-4c59-9101-933d4c87a91a')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->roleManagement()->directory()->roleDefinitions()->byUnifiedRoleDefinitionId('unifiedRoleDefinition-id')->get()->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.Identity.Governance

Get-MgRoleManagementDirectoryRoleDefinition -UnifiedRoleDefinitionId $unifiedRoleDefinitionId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.role_management.directory.role_definitions.by_unified_role_definition_id('unifiedRoleDefinition-id').get()

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

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


{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/$entity",
    "id": "f189965f-f560-4c59-9101-933d4c87a91a",
    "description": "Allows reading Application Registrations",
    "displayName": "Application Registration Reader",
    "isBuiltIn": false,
    "isEnabled": true,
    "templateId": "f189965f-f560-4c59-9101-933d4c87a91a",
    "version": null,
    "rolePermissions": [
        {
            "allowedResourceActions": [
                "microsoft.directory/applications/allProperties/read"
            ],
            "condition": null
        }
    ],
    "inheritsPermissionsFrom": []
}

Example 2: Get the definition of a built-in role

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/3a2c62db-5318-420d-8d74-23affee5d9d5

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.RoleManagement.Directory.RoleDefinitions["{unifiedRoleDefinition-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc role-management directory role-definitions get --unified-role-definition-id {unifiedRoleDefinition-id}

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"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
roleDefinitions, err := graphClient.RoleManagement().Directory().RoleDefinitions().ByUnifiedRoleDefinitionId("unifiedRoleDefinition-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

UnifiedRoleDefinition result = graphClient.roleManagement().directory().roleDefinitions().byUnifiedRoleDefinitionId("{unifiedRoleDefinition-id}").get();

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);

let unifiedRoleDefinition = await client.api('/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/3a2c62db-5318-420d-8d74-23affee5d9d5')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->roleManagement()->directory()->roleDefinitions()->byUnifiedRoleDefinitionId('unifiedRoleDefinition-id')->get()->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.Identity.Governance

Get-MgRoleManagementDirectoryRoleDefinition -UnifiedRoleDefinitionId $unifiedRoleDefinitionId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.role_management.directory.role_definitions.by_unified_role_definition_id('unifiedRoleDefinition-id').get()

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

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/$entity",
    "id": "fdd7a751-b60b-444a-984c-02652fe8fa1c",
    "description": "Members of this role can create/manage groups, create/manage groups settings like naming and expiration policies, and view groups activity and audit reports.",
    "displayName": "Groups Administrator",
    "isBuiltIn": true,
    "isEnabled": true,
    "resourceScopes": [
        "/"
    ],
    "templateId": "fdd7a751-b60b-444a-984c-02652fe8fa1c",
    "version": "1",
    "rolePermissions": [
        {
            "allowedResourceActions": [
                "microsoft.directory/groups/assignLicense",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/create",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/delete",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/hiddenMembers/read",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/reprocessLicenseAssignment",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/restore",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/basic/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/classification/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/dynamicMembershipRule/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/groupType/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/members/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/owners/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/settings/update",
                "microsoft.directory/groups/visibility/update",
                "microsoft.azure.serviceHealth/allEntities/allTasks",
                "microsoft.azure.supportTickets/allEntities/allTasks",
                "microsoft.office365.serviceHealth/allEntities/allTasks",
                "microsoft.office365.supportTickets/allEntities/allTasks",
                "microsoft.office365.webPortal/allEntities/standard/read"
            ],
            "condition": null
        }
    ],
    "inheritsPermissionsFrom": [
        {
            "id": "88d8e3e3-8f55-4a1e-953a-9b9898b8876b"
        }
    ]
}