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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Retrieve a list of user objects.

This operation returns by default only a subset of the more commonly used properties for each user. These default properties are noted in the Properties section. To get properties that are not returned by default, do a GET operation for the user and specify the properties in a $select OData query option.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

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

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

Guest users cannot call this API. For more information about the permissions for member and guest users, see What are the default user permissions in Microsoft Entra ID?

HTTP request

GET /users

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $count, $expand, $filter, $orderby, $search, $select, and $top OData query parameters to help customize the response. $skip isn't supported. The default and maximum page sizes are 100 and 999 user objects respectively, except when you specify $select=signInActivity or $filter=signInActivity. When signInActivity is selected or filtered on, the maximum page size is 999. Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects. The $count and $search parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

Extension properties also support query parameters, in some cases, only with advanced query parameters. For more information, see support for $filter by extension properties.

Certain properties cannot be returned within a user collection. The following properties are only supported when retrieving a single user: aboutMe, birthday, hireDate, interests, mySite, pastProjects, preferredName, responsibilities, schools, skills, mailboxSettings.

The following properties are not supported in personal Microsoft accounts and will be null: aboutMe, birthday, interests, mySite, pastProjects, preferredName, responsibilities, schools, skills, streetAddress.

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
ConsistencyLevel eventual. This header and $count are required when using $search, or in specific usage of $filter. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

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 user objects in the response body.

Attempting to use $select on the /users collection to retrieve properties that cannot be returned within a user collection (for example, the request ../users?$select=aboutMe) returns a 501 Not Implemented error code.

Examples

Example 1: Get all users

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users

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

{
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"contoso1",
      "mail":"'contoso1@gmail.com",
      "mailNickname":"contoso1_gmail.com#EXT#",
      "otherMails":["contoso1@gmail.com"],
      "proxyAddresses":["SMTP:contoso1@gmail.com"],
      "userPrincipalName":"contoso1_gmail.com#EXT#@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get a user account using a sign-in name

Find a user account using a sign-in name (also known as a local account).

Note: When filtering for an issuerAssignedId, you must supply both issuer and issuerAssignedId. However, the issuer value will be ignored in certain scenarios. For more details on filtering on identities see objectIdentity resource type.

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$select=displayName,id&$filter=identities/any(c:c/issuerAssignedId eq 'j.smith@yahoo.com' and c/issuer eq 'My B2C tenant')

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "displayName": "John Smith",
      "id": "87d349ed-44d7-43e1-9a83-5f2406dee5bd"
    }
  ]
}

Example 3: Get guest (B2B) users from a specific tenant or domain by userPrincipalName

Request

The following example shows a request. The userPrincipalName value for guest (B2B collaboration) users always contains the "#EXT#" identifier. For example, the userPrincipalName of a user in their home tenant is AdeleV@adatum.com. When you invite the user to collaborate in your tenant, contoso.com, their userPrincipalName in your tenant is "AdeleV_adatum.com#EXT#@contoso.com".

This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and the $count=true query string because the request includes the endsWith operator. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

NOTE: You must encode the reserved character "#" in the userPrincipalName value as "%23" in the request URL. For more information, see Encoding special characters.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$select=id,displayName,mail,identities&$filter=endsWith(userPrincipalName,'%23EXT%23@contoso.com')&$count=true
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/beta/$metadata#users(id,displayName,mail,identities)",
    "@odata.count": 2,
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "39807bd1-3dde-48f3-8165-81ddd4e46de0",
            "displayName": "Adele Vance",
            "mail": "AdeleV@adatum.com",
            "identities": [
                {
                    "signInType": "userPrincipalName",
                    "issuer": "contoso.com",
                    "issuerAssignedId": "AdeleV_adatum.com#EXT#@cntoso.com"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Example 4: List the last sign-in time of users with a specific display name

Request

The following example shows a request. Details for the signInActivity property require a Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license and the AuditLog.Read.All permission.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$filter=startswith(displayName,'Eric')&$select=displayName,signInActivity

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/beta/users?$filter=startswith(displayName,'Eric')&$select=displayName,signInActivity",
  "value": [
    {
      "displayName": "Eric Solomon",
      "signInActivity": {
        "lastSignInDateTime": "2021-07-29T15:53:27Z",
        "lastSignInRequestId": "f3149ee1-e347-4181-b45b-99a1f82b1c00",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInDateTime": "2021-07-29T17:53:42Z",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInRequestId": "868efa6a-b2e9-40e9-9b1c-0aaea5b50200"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: List the last sign-in time of users in a specific time range

Request

The following example shows a request. Details for the signInActivity property require a Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license and the AuditLog.Read.All permission.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?filter=signInActivity/lastSignInDateTime le 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z

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/beta/users?filter=signInActivity/lastSignInDateTime le 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z",
  "value": [
    {
      "displayName": "Adele Vance",
      "userPrincipalName": "AdeleV@contoso.com",
      "signInActivity": {
        "lastSignInDateTime": "2021-06-17T16:41:33Z",
        "lastSignInRequestId": "d4d31c40-4c36-4775-ad59-7d1e6a171f00",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInRequestId": ""
      }
    },
    {
      "displayName": "Alex Wilber",
      "userPrincipalName": "AlexW@contoso.com",
      "signInActivity": {
        "lastSignInDateTime": "2021-07-29T15:53:27Z",
        "lastSignInRequestId": "f3149ee1-e347-4181-b45b-99a1f82b1c00",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInDateTime": "2021-07-29T17:53:42Z",
        "lastNonInteractiveSignInRequestId": "868efa6a-b2e9-40e9-9b1c-0aaea5b50200"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example 6: Get only a count of users

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $count is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

893

Example 7: Use $filter and $top to get one user with a display name that starts with 'a' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and the $count=true query string because the request has both the $orderby and $filter query parameters. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$filter=startswith(displayName,'a')&$orderby=displayName&$count=true&$top=1
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/beta/$metadata#users",
  "@odata.count":1,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"a",
      "mail":"a@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"a_contoso.com#EXT#",
      "otherMails":["a@contoso.com"],
      "proxyAddresses":["SMTP:a@contoso.com"],
      "userPrincipalName":"a_contoso.com#EXT#@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 8: Use $filter to get all users with a mail that ends with 'a@contoso.com', including a count of returned objects, with the results ordered by userPrincipalName

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and the $count=true query string because the request has both the $orderby and $filter query parameters, and also uses the endsWith operator. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$filter=endswith(mail,'a@contoso.com')&$orderby=userPrincipalName&$count=true
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/beta/$metadata#users",
  "@odata.count": 1,
  "value": [
    {
      "displayName": "Grady Archie",
      "givenName": "Grady",
      "jobTitle": "Designer",
      "mail": "GradyA@contoso.com",
      "userPrincipalName": "GradyA@contoso.com",
      "id": "e8b753b5-4117-464e-9a08-713e1ff266b3"
      }
    ]
}

Example 9: Use $search to get users with display names that contain the letters 'wa' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $search is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$search="displayName:wa"&$orderby=displayName&$count=true
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/beta/$metadata#users",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Oscar Ward",
      "givenName":"Oscar",
      "mail":"oscarward@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"oscward",
      "userPrincipalName":"oscarward@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 10: Use $search to get users with display names that contain the letters 'wa' or the letters 'ad' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $search is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$search="displayName:wa" OR "displayName:ad"&$orderby=displayName&$count=true
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/beta/$metadata#users",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Oscar Ward",
      "givenName":"Oscar",
      "mail":"oscarward@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"oscward",
      "userPrincipalName":"oscarward@contoso.com"
    },
    {
      "displayName":"contosoAdmin1",
      "mail":"'contosoadmin1@gmail.com",
      "mailNickname":"contosoadmin1_gmail.com#EXT#",
      "proxyAddresses":["SMTP:contosoadmin1@gmail.com"],
      "userPrincipalName":"contosoadmin1_gmail.com#EXT#@contoso.com"
    }
  ]
}

Example 11: Use $filter to get users who are assigned a specific license

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $search is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$select=id,mail,assignedLicenses&$filter=assignedLicenses/any(u:u/skuId eq cbdc14ab-d96c-4c30-b9f4-6ada7cdc1d46)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users(id,mail,assignedLicenses)",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "cb4954e8-467f-4a6d-a8c8-28b9034fadbc",
      "mail": "admin@contoso.com",
      "assignedLicenses": [
        {
          "disabledPlans": [],
          "skuId": "cbdc14ab-d96c-4c30-b9f4-6ada7cdc1d46"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "81a133c2-bdf2-4e67-8755-7264366b04ee",
      "mail": "DebraB@contoso.com",
      "assignedLicenses": [
        {
          "disabledPlans": [],
          "skuId": "cbdc14ab-d96c-4c30-b9f4-6ada7cdc1d46"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 12: Get the value of a schema extension for all users

In this example, the ID of the schema extension is ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$select=ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses

Response

In the following response, the schema extension property ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses is unassigned in two of the user objects.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users(ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses)",
    "value": [
        {},
        {
            "ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses": {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.ComplexExtensionValue",
                "courseType": "Developer",
                "courseName": "Introduction to Microsoft Graph",
                "courseId": 1
            }
        },
        {}
    ]
}

Note: You can also apply $filter on the schema extension property to retrieve objects where a property in the collection matches a specified value. The syntax is /users?$filter={schemaPropertyID}/{propertyName} eq 'value'. For example, GET /users?$select=ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses&$filter=ext55gb1l09_msLearnCourses/courseType eq 'Developer'. The eq and not operators are supported.

Example 13: List all users with a custom security attribute assignment that equals a value

The following example shows how to list all users with a custom security attribute assignment that equals a value. The example retrieves users with a custom security attribute named AppCountry with a value that equals Canada. The filter value is case sensitive. You must add ConsistencyLevel=eventual in the request or the header. You must also include $count=true to ensure the request is routed correctly.

User #1

  • Attribute set: Marketing
  • Attribute: AppCountry
  • Attribute data type: Collection of Strings
  • Attribute value: ["India","Canada"]

User #2

  • Attribute set: Marketing
  • Attribute: AppCountry
  • Attribute data type: Collection of Strings
  • Attribute value: ["Canada","Mexico"]

To get custom security attribute assignments, the calling principal must be assigned the Attribute Assignment Reader or Attribute Assignment Administrator role and must be granted the CustomSecAttributeAssignment.Read.All or CustomSecAttributeAssignment.ReadWrite.All permission.

For examples of custom security attribute assignments, see Examples: Assign, update, list, or remove custom security attribute assignments using the Microsoft Graph API.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$count=true&$select=id,displayName,customSecurityAttributes&$filter=customSecurityAttributes/Marketing/AppCountry eq 'Canada'
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users(id,displayName,customSecurityAttributes)",
    "@odata.count": 2,
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "dbaf3778-4f81-4ea0-ac1c-502a293c12ac",
            "displayName": "Jiya",
            "customSecurityAttributes": {
                "Engineering": {
                    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.customSecurityAttributeValue",
                    "Datacenter@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
                    "Datacenter": [
                        "India"
                    ]
                },
                "Marketing": {
                    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.customSecurityAttributeValue",
                    "AppCountry@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
                    "AppCountry": [
                        "India",
                        "Canada"
                    ],
                    "EmployeeId": "KX19476"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6bac433c-48c6-4213-a316-1428de32701b",
            "displayName": "Jana",
            "customSecurityAttributes": {
                "Marketing": {
                    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.customSecurityAttributeValue",
                    "AppCountry@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
                    "AppCountry": [
                        "Canada",
                        "Mexico"
                    ],
                    "EmployeeId": "GS46982"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Example 14: List all users whose management is restricted

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$filter=isManagementRestricted eq true&$select=displayName,userPrincipalName

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/beta/$metadata#users(displayName,userPrincipalName)",
    "value": [
        {
            "displayName": "Adele",
            "userPrincipalName": "Adele@contoso.com"
        },
        {
            "displayName": "Bob",
            "userPrincipalName": "Bob@contoso.com"
        }
    ]
}