List attributeSets

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of the attributeSet 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

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) CustomSecAttributeDefinition.Read.All CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application CustomSecAttributeDefinition.Read.All CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All

Important

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 a supported role permission. The following privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Attribute Assignment Reader
  • Attribute Definition Reader
  • Attribute Assignment Administrator
  • Attribute Definition Administrator

By default, Global Administrator and other administrator roles don't have permissions to read, define, or assign custom security attributes.

HTTP request

GET /directory/attributeSets

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select, $top, and $orderby OData query parameters 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 a collection of attributeSet objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get all attribute sets

The following example gets all attribute sets in a tenant.

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directory/attributeSets",
    "value": [
        {
            "description": "Attributes for engineering team",
            "id": "Engineering",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        },
        {
            "description": "Attributes for marketing team",
            "id": "Marketing",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        }
    ]
}

Example 2: Get top attribute sets

The following example gets the top 10 attribute sets with support for paging.

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets?$top=10

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directory/attributeSets",
    "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets?$top=10&$skiptoken={skiptoken}",
    "value": [
        {
            "description": "Attributes for engineering team",
            "id": "Engineering",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        },
        {
            "description": "Attributes for marketing team",
            "id": "Marketing",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        }
    ]
}

Example 3: Get attribute sets in order

The following example gets attribute sets ordered by ID.

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets?$orderby=id

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directory/attributeSets",
    "value": [
        {
            "description": "Attributes for applications",
            "id": "Application",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        },
        {
            "description": "Attributes for engineering team",
            "id": "Engineering",
            "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
        }
    ]
}