List windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethods

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of the windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod objects and their properties.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permissions acting on self

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

Permissions acting on other users

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

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

• Global Reader
• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

Retrieve details of your own Windows Hello For Business authentication methods.

GET /me/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods

Retrieve details of your own or another user's Windows Hello For Business authentication methods.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods

Optional query parameters

Not supported.

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 a collection of windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/annie@contoso.com/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods

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}"].Authentication.WindowsHelloForBusinessMethods.GetAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication windows-hello-for-business-methods 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

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



windowsHelloForBusinessMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().WindowsHelloForBusinessMethods().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);

WindowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodCollectionResponse result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().windowsHelloForBusinessMethods().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 windowsHelloForBusinessMethods = await client.api('/users/annie@contoso.com/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods')
	.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')->authentication()->windowsHelloForBusinessMethods()->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.SignIns

Get-MgUserAuthenticationWindowsHelloForBusinessMethod -UserId $userId

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.windows_hello_for_business_methods.get()

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

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "b5e01f81-1f81-b5e0-811f-e0b5811fe0b5",
      "displayName": "Jordan's Surface Book",
      "createdDateTime": "2020-11-27T23:12:49Z",
      "keyStrength": "normal"
    },
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "e6dab818-e68d-433e-89d5-547357870cb2",
      "displayName": "New Surface Duo",
      "createdDateTime": "2020-12-25T02:20:13Z",
      "keyStrength": "normal"
    }
  ]
}