List group members

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2024-09-12

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of the group's direct members. A group can have users, organizational contacts, devices, service principals and other groups as members. This operation is not transitive.

Important

This API has a known issue where service principals are not listed as group members in v1.0. As a workaround, use this API on the beta endpoint or use the /groups/{id}?$expand=members API. For more information, see the related known issue.

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)	GroupMember.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	GroupMember.Read.All	Directory.Read.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, GroupMember.ReadWrite.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.

In delegated scenarios, the signed-in user must also be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/groups/members/read or microsoft.directory/groups/members/limitedRead role permission, or microsoft.directory/groups/hiddenMembers/read role permission to read hidden members. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

Group owners
"Member" users
"Guest" users - have limited read permissions
Directory Readers
Directory Writers
Groups Administrator
User Administrator - Including hidden members
Exchange Administrator - Including hidden members
SharePoint Administrator - Including hidden members
Intune Administrator - Including hidden members
Teams Administrator - Including hidden members
Yammer Administrator - Including hidden members

To list the members of a hidden membership group, the Member.Read.Hidden permission is also required.

HTTP request

GET /groups/{id}/members

Optional query parameters

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

OData cast is enabled. For example, /groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user retrieves group members that are users.
$search is supported on the displayName and description properties only.
The use of query parameters with this API, except for $expand, is supported only with advanced query parameters. $expand isn't supported with advanced query parameters. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

The default and maximum page size is 100 and 999 group objects respectively.

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 a collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

An attempt to filter by an OData cast that represents an unsupported member type returns a 400 Bad Request error with the Request_UnsupportedQuery code. For example, /groups/{id}}/members/microsoft.graph.group when the group is a Microsoft 365 group will return this error, because Microsoft 365 groups cannot have other groups as members.

Examples

Example 1: Get the direct membership in a group

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/members


// 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.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GetAsync();



mgc groups members list --group-id {group-id}



// 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
members, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().Get(context.Background(), nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryObjectCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().get();


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let members = await client.api('/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/members')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->get()->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupMember -GroupId $groupId


# 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.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.get()

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#directoryObjects",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
      "mail": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of all membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/members/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual


// 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
await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.Count.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});



mgc groups members count get --group-id {group-id} --consistency-level "eventual"



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")

configuration := &graphgroups.ItemMembers$countRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().Count().Get(context.Background(), configuration)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().count().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let int32 = await client.api('/groups/02bd9fd6-8f93-4758-87c3-1fb73740a315/members/$count')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\Count\CountRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new CountRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;


$graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->count()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupMemberCount -GroupId $groupId -ConsistencyLevel eventual


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.members.count.count_request_builder import CountRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.count.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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 user membership

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual


// 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
await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GraphUser.Count.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});



mgc groups members graph-user count get --group-id {group-id} --consistency-level "eventual"



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")

configuration := &graphgroups.ItemMembersGraph.user$countRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().GraphUser().Count().Get(context.Background(), configuration)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().graphUser().count().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let int32 = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user/$count')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\Graph\User\Count\CountRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new CountRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;


$graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->graphUser()->count()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupMemberCountAsUser -GroupId $groupId -ConsistencyLevel eventual


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.members.graph.user.count.count_request_builder import CountRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.graph_user.count.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

893

Example 4: Use $searchand OData cast to get user membership in groups with display names that contain the letters 'Pr' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user?$count=true&$orderby=displayName&$search="displayName:Pr"&$select=displayName,id
ConsistencyLevel: eventual


// 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.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GraphUser.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "displayName" };
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "displayName","id" };
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});



mgc groups members graph-user get --group-id {group-id} --search ""displayName:Pr"" --count "true" --orderby "displayName" --select "displayName,id" --consistency-level "eventual"



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


requestCount := true
requestSearch := "\"displayName:Pr\""

requestParameters := &graphgroups.ItemMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Orderby: [] string {"displayName"},
	Search: &requestSearch,
	Select: [] string {"displayName","id"},
}
configuration := &graphgroups.ItemMembersGraph.userRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphUser, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().GraphUser().Get(context.Background(), configuration)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

UserCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().graphUser().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.orderby = new String []{"displayName"};
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"displayName", "id"};
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let user = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members/microsoft.graph.user')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.search('displayName:Pr')
	.select('displayName,id')
	.orderby('displayName')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\Graph\User\UserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new GraphUserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = GraphUserRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$queryParameters->orderby = ["displayName"];
$queryParameters->search = "\"displayName:Pr\"";
$queryParameters->select = ["displayName","id"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->graphUser()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupMemberAsUser -GroupId $groupId -CountVariable CountVar -Sort "displayName" -Search '"displayName:Pr"' -Property "displayName,id"  -ConsistencyLevel eventual


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.members.graph.user.user_request_builder import UserRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = UserRequestBuilder.UserRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		orderby = ["displayName"],
		search = "\"displayName:Pr\"",
		select = ["displayName","id"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.graph_user.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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#users(displayName,id)",
  "@odata.count":7,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Joseph Price",
      "id":"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
    },
    {
      "displayName":"Preston Morales",
      "id":"66666666-7777-8888-9999-000000000000"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Use $filter to get group membership with a display name that starts with the letter 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request.

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


// 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.Groups["{group-id}"].Members.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});



mgc groups members list --group-id {group-id} --filter "startswith(displayName, 'a')" --count "true" --consistency-level "eventual"



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


requestCount := true
requestFilter := "startswith(displayName, 'a')"

requestParameters := &graphgroups.ItemMembersRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Filter: &requestFilter,
}
configuration := &graphgroups.ItemMembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Members().Get(context.Background(), configuration)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryObjectCollectionResponse result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").members().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let members = await client.api('/groups/{id}/members')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.filter('startswith(displayName, \'a\')')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\Members\MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = MembersRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$queryParameters->filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')";
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->members()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

Get-MgGroupMember -GroupId $groupId -CountVariable CountVar -Filter "startswith(displayName, 'a')"  -ConsistencyLevel eventual


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.members.members_request_builder import MembersRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = MembersRequestBuilder.MembersRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		filter = "startswith(displayName, 'a')",
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').members.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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#directoryObjects",
  "@odata.count":76,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"AAD Contoso Users",
      "mail":"[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}

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List group members

Permissions

HTTP request

Optional query parameters

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Get the direct membership in a group

Request

Response

Example 2: Get only a count of all membership

Request

Response

Example 3: Use OData cast to get only a count of user membership

Request

Response

Example 4: Use $searchand OData cast to get user membership in groups with display names that contain the letters 'Pr' including a count of returned objects

Request

Response

Example 5: Use $filter to get group membership with a display name that starts with the letter 'A' including a count of returned objects

Request

Response

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