Update emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration object, which represents the email OTP authentication method policy for the Microsoft Entra tenant.

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)	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod	Not available.

For delegated scenarios, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Policy Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

PATCH /policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration object. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

For the list of properties that can be updated, see emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration.

Note: The @odata.type property with a value of #microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration must be included in the body.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
  "allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp": "enabled",
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
	AllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp = ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Policies.AuthenticationMethodsPolicy.AuthenticationMethodConfigurations["{authenticationMethodConfiguration-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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 policies authentication-methods-policy authentication-method-configurations patch --authentication-method-configuration-id {authenticationMethodConfiguration-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",\
  "allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp": "enabled",\
}\
'

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewAuthenticationMethodConfiguration()
allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp := graphmodels.ENABLED_EXTERNALEMAILOTPSTATE 
requestBody.SetAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(&allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp) 

authenticationMethodConfigurations, err := graphClient.Policies().AuthenticationMethodsPolicy().AuthenticationMethodConfigurations().ByAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId("authenticationMethodConfiguration-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, 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);

EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration authenticationMethodConfiguration = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration();
authenticationMethodConfiguration.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration");
authenticationMethodConfiguration.setAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled);
AuthenticationMethodConfiguration result = graphClient.policies().authenticationMethodsPolicy().authenticationMethodConfigurations().byAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId("{authenticationMethodConfiguration-id}").patch(authenticationMethodConfiguration);

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);

const authenticationMethodConfiguration = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration',
  allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp: 'enabled',
};

await client.api('/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations/email')
	.update(authenticationMethodConfiguration);

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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration;


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

$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration');
$requestBody->setAllowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp(new ExternalEmailOtpState('enabled'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->policies()->authenticationMethodsPolicy()->authenticationMethodConfigurations()->byAuthenticationMethodConfigurationId('authenticationMethodConfiguration-id')->patch($requestBody)->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

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration"
	allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp = "enabled"
}

Update-MgPolicyAuthenticationMethodPolicyAuthenticationMethodConfiguration -AuthenticationMethodConfigurationId $authenticationMethodConfigurationId -BodyParameter $params

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
from msgraph.generated.models.email_authentication_method_configuration import EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = EmailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration",
	allow_external_id_to_use_email_otp = ExternalEmailOtpState.Enabled,
)

result = await graph_client.policies.authentication_methods_policy.authentication_method_configurations.by_authentication_method_configuration_id('authenticationMethodConfiguration-id').patch(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 NO CONTENT