List a user's memberships (direct and transitive)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get groups, directory roles, and administrative units that the user is a member of through either direct or transitive membership.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

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.

Permissions for the signed-in user's memberships

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	User.Read	Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

Permissions for another user's memberships

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	User.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, GroupMember.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	User.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, GroupMember.Read.All

Important

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it doesn't have permission to read a certain resource type, members of that type are returned but with limited information. For example, only the @odata.type property for the object type and the id is returned, while other properties are indicated as null. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

Tip

• Calling the /me/transitiveMemberOf endpoint requires a signed-in user and therefore a delegated permission. Application permissions are not supported when you use the /me/transitiveMemberOf endpoint.
• To list the members of a group with hidden membership, the Member.Read.Hidden permission is required.

HTTP request

GET /me/transitiveMemberOf

Note

Calling the /me endpoint requires a signed-in user and therefore a delegated permission. Application permissions aren't supported when using the /me endpoint.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/transitiveMemberOf

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $filter, $count, $select, $search, $top OData query parameters to help customize the response.

• OData cast is also enabled. For example, you can cast to get just the transitive membership in groups.
• $search is supported on the displayName property only.
• The default and maximum page size is 100 and 999 objects respectively.
• The use of query parameters with this API is supported only with advanced query parameters. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
ConsistencyLevel	eventual. This header and $count are required when using the $search, $filter, $orderby, or OData cast query parameters. It uses an index that might not be up-to-date with recent changes to the object.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get groups, directory roles, and administrative units that the user is a member of

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/6e7b768e-07e2-4810-8459-485f84f8f204/transitiveMemberOf

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.Users["{user-id}"].TransitiveMemberOf.GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users transitive-member-of list --user-id {user-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
transitiveMemberOf, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").TransitiveMemberOf().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);

DirectoryObjectCollectionResponse result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").transitiveMemberOf().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 transitiveMemberOf = await client.api('/users/6e7b768e-07e2-4810-8459-485f84f8f204/transitiveMemberOf')
	.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->users()->byUserId('user-id')->transitiveMemberOf()->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.Users

Get-MgUserTransitiveMemberOf -UserId $userId

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.users.by_user_id('user-id').transitive_member_of.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#directoryObjects",
  "value":[
    {
      "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.group",
      "displayName":"All_Contoso_Licensing",
      "mailEnabled":true,
      "mailNickname":"ContosoMailNickName",
      "securityEnabled":true
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of transitive membership in groups, directory roles, and administrative units

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/transitiveMemberOf/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

893

Example 3: Use OData cast to get only a count of transitive membership in groups

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/transitiveMemberOf/microsoft.graph.group/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

588

Example 4: Use $search and OData cast to get transitive membership in groups with display names that contain the letters 'tier' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/transitiveMemberOf/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$search="displayName:tier"&$select=displayName,id
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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#groups(displayName,id)",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Contoso-tier Query Notification",
      "id":"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Use $filter and OData cast to get transitive membership in groups with a display name that starts with 'a' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/transitiveMemberOf/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$filter=startswith(displayName, 'a')
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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#groups",
  "@odata.count":76,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"AAD Contoso Users",
      "mail":"AADContoso_Users@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled":true,
      "mailNickname":"AADContoso_Users",
      "securityEnabled":true
    }
  ]
}