directoryObject: checkMemberGroups

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2025-01-30

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Check for membership in a specified list of group IDs, and return from that list the IDs of groups where a specified object is a member. The specified object can be of one of the following types:

This function is transitive.

You can check up to a maximum of 20 groups per request. This function supports all groups provisioned in Microsoft Entra ID. Because Microsoft 365 groups cannot contain other groups, membership in a Microsoft 365 group is always direct.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

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

Group memberships for a directory object

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

Note

The Directory.* permissions allow you to retrieve any supported directory object type via this API. To retrieve only a specific type, you can use permissions specific to the resource.

Group memberships for the signed-in user

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	User.Read	User.ReadBasic.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All and Group.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

Group memberships for other users

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	User.ReadBasic.All and GroupMember.Read.All	User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All and Group.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	User.ReadBasic.All and GroupMember.Read.All	User.Read.All and GroupMember.Read.All, User.Read.All and Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All

Group memberships for a group

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

Group memberships for a service principal

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

Group memberships for an organizational contact

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

Group memberships for a device

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

HTTP request

Group memberships for a directory object (user, group, service principal, or organizational contact).

POST /directoryObjects/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for the signed-in user.

POST /me/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for other users.

POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a group.

POST /groups/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a service principal.

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for an organizational contact.

POST /contacts/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Group memberships for a device.

POST /devices/{id}/checkMemberGroups

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
groupIds	String collection	A collection that contains the object IDs of the groups in which to check membership. Up to 20 groups may be specified.

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK response code and String collection object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Check group memberships for a directory object

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e/checkMemberGroups
Content-type: application/json

{
    "groupIds": [
        "f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
        "bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",
        "93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
        "f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
        "c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"
    ]
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.DirectoryObjects.Item.CheckMemberGroups;

var requestBody = new CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody
{
	GroupIds = new List<string>
	{
		"f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
		"bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",
		"93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
		"f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
		"c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79",
	},
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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



mgc-beta directory-objects check-member-groups post --directory-object-id {directoryObject-id} --body '{\
    "groupIds": [\
        "f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",\
        "bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",\
        "93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",\
        "f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",\
        "c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"\
    ]\
}\
'

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphdirectoryobjects.NewCheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody()
groupIds := []string {
	"f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
	"bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",
	"93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
	"f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
	"c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79",
}
requestBody.SetGroupIds(groupIds)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
checkMemberGroups, err := graphClient.DirectoryObjects().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").CheckMemberGroups().PostAsCheckMemberGroupsPostResponse(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.directoryobjects.item.checkmembergroups.CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.directoryobjects.item.checkmembergroups.CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<String> groupIds = new LinkedList<String>();
groupIds.add("f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09");
groupIds.add("bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6");
groupIds.add("93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b");
groupIds.add("f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7");
groupIds.add("c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79");
checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody.setGroupIds(groupIds);
var result = graphClient.directoryObjects().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").checkMemberGroups().post(checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody);

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const string = {
    groupIds: [
        'f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09',
        'bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6',
        '93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b',
        'f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7',
        'c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79'
    ]
};

await client.api('/directoryObjects/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e/checkMemberGroups')
	.version('beta')
	.post(string);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\DirectoryObjects\Item\CheckMemberGroups\CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setGroupIds(['f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09', 'bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6', '93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b', 'f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7', 'c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->directoryObjects()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->checkMemberGroups()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.DirectoryObjects

$params = @{
	groupIds = @(
	"f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09"
"bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6"
"93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b"
"f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7"
"c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"
)
}

Confirm-MgBetaDirectoryObjectMemberGroup -DirectoryObjectId $directoryObjectId -BodyParameter $params

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.directoryobjects.item.check_member_groups.check_member_groups_post_request_body import CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody(
	group_ids = [
		"f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
		"bd7c6263-4dd5-4ae8-8c96-556e1c0bece6",
		"93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
		"f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
		"c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.directory_objects.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').check_member_groups.post(request_body)

Important

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

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#Collection(Edm.String)",
    "value": [
        "f448435d-3ca7-4073-8152-a1fd73c0fd09",
        "93670da6-d731-4366-94b5-abed40b6016b",
        "f5484ab1-4d4d-41ec-a9b8-754b3957bfc7",
        "c9103f26-f3cf-4004-a611-2a14e81b8f79"
    ]
}

Example 2: Check group memberships for the signed-in user

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/checkMemberGroups
Content-type: application/json

{
  "groupIds": [
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",
        "4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540"
  ]
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Me.CheckMemberGroups;

var requestBody = new CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody
{
	GroupIds = new List<string>
	{
		"fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",
		"4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.CheckMemberGroups.PostAsCheckMemberGroupsPostResponseAsync(requestBody);

Important

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



mgc-beta users check-member-groups post --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "groupIds": [\
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",\
        "4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540"\
  ]\
}\
'

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphusers.NewItemCheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody()
groupIds := []string {
	"fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",
	"4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540",
}
requestBody.SetGroupIds(groupIds)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
checkMemberGroups, err := graphClient.Me().CheckMemberGroups().PostAsCheckMemberGroupsPostResponse(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.users.item.checkmembergroups.CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.users.item.checkmembergroups.CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<String> groupIds = new LinkedList<String>();
groupIds.add("fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e");
groupIds.add("4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540");
checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody.setGroupIds(groupIds);
var result = graphClient.me().checkMemberGroups().post(checkMemberGroupsPostRequestBody);

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const string = {
  groupIds: [
        'fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e',
        '4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540'
  ]
};

await client.api('/me/checkMemberGroups')
	.version('beta')
	.post(string);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\CheckMemberGroups\CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setGroupIds(['fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e', '4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->checkMemberGroups()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	groupIds = @(
	"fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e"
"4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540"
)
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Confirm-MgBetaUserMemberGroup -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.check_member_groups.check_member_groups_post_request_body import CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CheckMemberGroupsPostRequestBody(
	group_ids = [
		"fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e",
		"4fe90ae7-065a-478b-9400-e0a0e1cbd540",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.me.check_member_groups.post(request_body)

Important

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

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#Collection(Edm.String)",
  "value": [
        "fee2c45b-915a-4a64-b130-f4eb9e75525e"
  ]
}

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directoryObject: checkMemberGroups

Permissions

Group memberships for a directory object

Group memberships for the signed-in user

Group memberships for other users

Group memberships for a group

Group memberships for a service principal

Group memberships for an organizational contact

Group memberships for a device

HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Check group memberships for a directory object

Request

Response

Example 2: Check group memberships for the signed-in user

Request

Response

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