People.Read
Allows the app to read a ranked list of relevant people of the signed-in user. The list includes local contacts, contacts from social networking, your organization's directory, and people from recent communications (such as email and Skype).
Merill's Note
For an app to access data in Microsoft Graph, the user or administrator must grant it the permissions it needs. This article lists all the Microsoft Graph APIs and your tenant data that can be accessed by the application (vendor/developer) if you consent to the
People.Readpermission.If you need to create an audit report of the permissions granted to all the apps in your tenant, you can run the
Export-MsIdAppConsentGrantReportcommand. See How To: Run a quick OAuth app audit of your tenant
| Category | Application | Delegated |
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| Identifier | - | ba47897c-39ec-4d83-8086-ee8256fa737d |
| DisplayText | - | Read users' relevant people lists |
| Description | - | Allows the app to read a ranked list of relevant people of the signed-in user. The list includes local contacts, contacts from social networking, your organization's directory, and people from recent communications (such as email and Skype). |
| AdminConsentRequired | Yes | No |
Graph Methods
→ API supports delegated access (access on behalf of a user)
→ API supports app-only access (access without a user)
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→ API supports delegated access (access on behalf of a user)
→ API supports app-only access (access without a user)
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→ Command supports delegated access (access on behalf of a user)
→ Command supports app-only access (access without a user)
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→ Command supports delegated access (access on behalf of a user)
→ Command supports app-only access (access without a user)
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Resources
Granting this permission allows the calling application to access (and/or update) the following information in your tenant.
Graph reference: person
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| birthday | String | The person's birthday. |
| companyName | String | The name of the person's company. |
| department | String | The person's department. |
| displayName | String | The person's display name. |
| givenName | String | The person's given name. |
| id | String | The person's unique identifier. Read-only. |
| imAddress | String | The instant message voice over IP (VOIP) session initiation protocol (SIP) address for the user. Read-only. |
| isFavorite | Boolean | True if the user has flagged this person as a favorite. |
| jobTitle | String | The person's job title. |
| officeLocation | String | The location of the person's office. |
| personNotes | String | Free-form notes that the user has taken about this person. |
| personType | personType | The type of person. |
| phones | phone collection | The person's phone numbers. |
| postalAddresses | location collection | The person's addresses. |
| profession | String | The person's profession. |
| scoredEmailAddresses | scoredEmailAddress collection | The person's email addresses. |
| surname | String | The person's surname. |
| userPrincipalName | String | The user principal name (UPN) of the person. The UPN is an Internet-style login name for the person based on the Internet standard RFC 822. By convention, this should map to the person's email name. The general format is alias@domain. |
| websites | website collection | The person's websites. |
| yomiCompany | String | The phonetic Japanese name of the person's company. |
Graph reference: user
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| aboutMe | String | A freeform text entry field for the user to describe themselves. Returned only on $select. |
| accountEnabled | Boolean | true if the account is enabled; otherwise, false. This property is required when a user is created. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, and in). |
| ageGroup | ageGroup | Sets the age group of the user. Allowed values: null, Minor, NotAdult, and Adult. For more information, see legal age group property definitions. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, and in). |
| assignedLicenses | assignedLicense collection | The licenses that are assigned to the user, including inherited (group-based) licenses. This property doesn't differentiate between directly assigned and inherited licenses. Use the licenseAssignmentStates property to identify the directly assigned and inherited licenses. Not nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, /$count eq 0, /$count ne 0). |
| assignedPlans | assignedPlan collection | The plans that are assigned to the user. Read-only. Not nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq and not). |
| birthday | DateTimeOffset | The birthday of the user. The Timestamp type represents date and time information using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014, is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Returned only on $select. |
| businessPhones | String collection | The telephone numbers for the user. NOTE: Although it's a string collection, only one number can be set for this property. Read-only for users synced from the on-premises directory. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le, startsWith). |
| city | String | The city where the user is located. Maximum length is 128 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| companyName | String | The name of the company that the user is associated with. This property can be useful for describing the company that a guest comes from. The maximum length is 64 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| consentProvidedForMinor | consentProvidedForMinor | Sets whether consent was obtained for minors. Allowed values: null, Granted, Denied, and NotRequired. For more information, see legal age group property definitions. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, and in). |
| country | String | The country/region where the user is located; for example, US or UK. Maximum length is 128 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| createdDateTime | DateTimeOffset | The date and time the user was created, in ISO 8601 format and UTC. The value can't be modified and is automatically populated when the entity is created. Nullable. For on-premises users, the value represents when they were first created in Microsoft Entra ID. Property is null for some users created before June 2018 and on-premises users that were synced to Microsoft Entra ID before June 2018. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in). |
| creationType | String | Indicates whether the user account was created through one of the following methods:
Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in). |
| customSecurityAttributes | customSecurityAttributeValue | An open complex type that holds the value of a custom security attribute that is assigned to a directory object. Nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, startsWith). The filter value is case-sensitive. |
| deletedDateTime | DateTimeOffset | The date and time the user was deleted. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in). |
| department | String | The name of the department in which the user works. Maximum length is 64 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, and eq on null values). |
| displayName | String | The name displayed in the address book for the user. This value is usually the combination of the user's first name, middle initial, and family name. This property is required when a user is created and it can't be cleared during updates. Maximum length is 256 characters. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values), $orderby, and $search. |
| employeeHireDate | DateTimeOffset | The date and time when the user was hired or will start work in a future hire. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in). |
| employeeLeaveDateTime | DateTimeOffset | The date and time when the user left or will leave the organization. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in). For more information, see Configure the employeeLeaveDateTime property for a user. |
| employeeId | String | The employee identifier assigned to the user by the organization. The maximum length is 16 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| employeeOrgData | employeeOrgData | Represents organization data (for example, division and costCenter) associated with a user. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in). |
| employeeType | String | Captures enterprise worker type. For example, Employee, Contractor, Consultant, or Vendor. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith). |
| externalUserState | String | For a guest invited to the tenant using the invitation API, this property represents the invited user's invitation status. For invited users, the state can be PendingAcceptance or Accepted, or null for all other users. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , in). |
| externalUserStateChangeDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Shows the timestamp for the latest change to the externalUserState property. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , in). |
| faxNumber | String | The fax number of the user. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| givenName | String | The given name (first name) of the user. Maximum length is 64 characters. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| hireDate | DateTimeOffset | The hire date of the user. The Timestamp type represents date and time information using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014, is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Returned only on $select. Note: This property is specific to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. We recommend using the native employeeHireDate property to set and update hire date values using Microsoft Graph APIs. |
| id | String | The unique identifier for the user. Should be treated as an opaque identifier. Inherited from directoryObject. Key. Not nullable. Read-only. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in). |
| identities | objectIdentity collection | Represents the identities that can be used to sign in to this user account. Microsoft (also known as a local account), organizations, or social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft can provide identity and tie it to a user account. It might contain multiple items with the same signInType value. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq) with limitations. |
| imAddresses | String collection | The instant message voice-over IP (VOIP) session initiation protocol (SIP) addresses for the user. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le, startsWith). |
| interests | String collection | A list for the user to describe their interests. Returned only on $select. |
| isResourceAccount | Boolean | Don't use – reserved for future use. |
| jobTitle | String | The user's job title. Maximum length is 128 characters. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not , ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| lastPasswordChangeDateTime | DateTimeOffset | The time when this Microsoft Entra user last changed their password or when their password was created, whichever date the latest action was performed. The date and time information uses ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Returned only on $select. |
| legalAgeGroupClassification | legalAgeGroupClassification | Used by enterprise applications to determine the legal age group of the user. This property is read-only and calculated based on ageGroup and consentProvidedForMinor properties. Allowed values: null, MinorWithOutParentalConsent, MinorWithParentalConsent, MinorNoParentalConsentRequired, NotAdult, and Adult. For more information, see legal age group property definitions. Returned only on $select. |
| licenseAssignmentStates | licenseAssignmentState collection | State of license assignments for this user. Also indicates licenses that are directly assigned or the user inherited through group memberships. Read-only. Returned only on $select. |
| String | The SMTP address for the user, for example, [email protected]. Changes to this property update the user's proxyAddresses collection to include the value as an SMTP address. This property can't contain accent characters. NOTE: We don't recommend updating this property for Azure AD B2C user profiles. Use the otherMails property instead. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, endsWith, and eq on null values). |
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| mailboxSettings | mailboxSettings | Settings for the primary mailbox of the signed-in user. You can get or update settings for sending automatic replies to incoming messages, locale, and time zone. Returned only on $select. |
| mailNickname | String | The mail alias for the user. This property must be specified when a user is created. Maximum length is 64 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| mobilePhone | String | The primary cellular telephone number for the user. Read-only for users synced from the on-premises directory. Maximum length is 64 characters. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values) and $search. |
| mySite | String | The URL for the user's site. Returned only on $select. |
| officeLocation | String | The office location in the user's place of business. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| onPremisesDistinguishedName | String | Contains the on-premises Active Directory distinguished name or DN. The property is only populated for customers who are synchronizing their on-premises directory to Microsoft Entra ID via Microsoft Entra Connect. Read-only. Returned only on $select. |
| onPremisesDomainName | String | Contains the on-premises domainFQDN, also called dnsDomainName synchronized from the on-premises directory. The property is only populated for customers who are synchronizing their on-premises directory to Microsoft Entra ID via Microsoft Entra Connect. Read-only. Returned only on $select. |
| onPremisesExtensionAttributes | onPremisesExtensionAttributes | Contains extensionAttributes1-15 for the user. These extension attributes are also known as Exchange custom attributes 1-15. Each attribute can store up to 1024 characters. false), these properties can be set during the creation or update of a user object. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in). |
| onPremisesImmutableId | String | This property is used to associate an on-premises Active Directory user account to their Microsoft Entra user object. This property must be specified when creating a new user account in the Graph if you're using a federated domain for the user's userPrincipalName (UPN) property. NOTE: The $ and _ characters can't be used when specifying this property. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in). |
| onPremisesLastSyncDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Indicates the last time at which the object was synced with the on-premises directory; for example: 2013-02-16T03:04:54Z. The Timestamp type represents date and time information using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in). |
| onPremisesProvisioningErrors | onPremisesProvisioningError collection | Errors when using Microsoft synchronization product during provisioning. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le). |
| onPremisesSamAccountName | String | Contains the on-premises samAccountName synchronized from the on-premises directory. The property is only populated for customers who are synchronizing their on-premises directory to Microsoft Entra ID via Microsoft Entra Connect. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith). |
| onPremisesSecurityIdentifier | String | Contains the on-premises security identifier (SID) for the user that was synchronized from on-premises to the cloud. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq including on null values). |
| onPremisesSyncEnabled | Boolean | true if this user object is currently being synced from an on-premises Active Directory (AD); otherwise the user isn't being synced and can be managed in Microsoft Entra ID. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in, and eq on null values). |
| onPremisesUserPrincipalName | String | Contains the on-premises userPrincipalName synchronized from the on-premises directory. The property is only populated for customers who are synchronizing their on-premises directory to Microsoft Entra ID via Microsoft Entra Connect. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith). |
| otherMails | String collection | A list of other email addresses for the user; for example: ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"]. NOTE: This property can't contain accent characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, endsWith, /$count eq 0, /$count ne 0). |
| passwordPolicies | String | Specifies password policies for the user. This value is an enumeration with one possible value being DisableStrongPassword, which allows weaker passwords than the default policy to be specified. DisablePasswordExpiration can also be specified. The two might be specified together; for example: DisablePasswordExpiration, DisableStrongPassword. Returned only on $select. For more information on the default password policies, see Microsoft Entra password policies. Supports $filter (ne, not, and eq on null values). |
| passwordProfile | passwordProfile | Specifies the password profile for the user. The profile contains the user's password. This property is required when a user is created. The password in the profile must satisfy minimum requirements as specified by the passwordPolicies property. By default, a strong password is required. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in, and eq on null values). To update this property: |
| pastProjects | String collection | A list for the user to enumerate their past projects. Returned only on $select. |
| postalCode | String | The postal code for the user's postal address. The postal code is specific to the user's country/region. In the United States of America, this attribute contains the ZIP code. Maximum length is 40 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| preferredDataLocation | String | The preferred data location for the user. For more information, see OneDrive Online Multi-Geo. |
| preferredLanguage | String | The preferred language for the user. The preferred language format is based on RFC 4646. The name is a combination of an ISO 639 two-letter lowercase culture code associated with the language, and an ISO 3166 two-letter uppercase subculture code associated with the country or region. Example: "en-US", or "es-ES". Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values) |
| preferredName | String | The preferred name for the user. Not Supported. This attribute returns an empty string. Returned only on $select. |
| provisionedPlans | provisionedPlan collection | The plans that are provisioned for the user. Read-only. Not nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le). |
| proxyAddresses | String collection | For example: "SMTP: [email protected]", "smtp: [email protected]"]. Changes to the mail property update this collection to include the value as an SMTP address. For more information, see [mail and proxyAddresses properties. The proxy address prefixed with SMTP (capitalized) is the primary proxy address, while those addresses prefixed with smtp are the secondary proxy addresses. For Azure AD B2C accounts, this property has a limit of 10 unique addresses. Read-only in Microsoft Graph; you can update this property only through the Microsoft 365 admin center. Not nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, not, ge, le, startsWith, endsWith, /$count eq 0, /$count ne 0). |
| refreshTokensValidFromDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Any refresh tokens or session tokens (session cookies) issued before this time are invalid. Applications get an error when using an invalid refresh or session token to acquire a delegated access token (to access APIs such as Microsoft Graph). If this happens, the application needs to acquire a new refresh token by requesting the authorized endpoint. Returned only on $select. Read-only. |
| responsibilities | String collection | A list for the user to enumerate their responsibilities. Returned only on $select. |
| serviceProvisioningErrors | serviceProvisioningError collection | Errors published by a federated service describing a nontransient, service-specific error regarding the properties or link from a user object. Supports $filter (eq, not, for isResolved and serviceInstance). |
| schools | String collection | A list for the user to enumerate the schools they attended. Returned only on $select. |
| securityIdentifier | String | Security identifier (SID) of the user, used in Windows scenarios. Read-only. Returned by default. Supports $select and $filter (eq, not, ge, le, startsWith). |
| showInAddressList | Boolean | Do not use in Microsoft Graph. Manage this property through the Microsoft 365 admin center instead. Represents whether the user should be included in the Outlook global address list. See Known issue. |
| signInActivity | signInActivity | Get the last signed-in date and request ID of the sign-in for a given user. Read-only. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le) but not with any other filterable properties. Note: |
| signInSessionsValidFromDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Any refresh tokens or session tokens (session cookies) issued before this time are invalid. Applications get an error when using an invalid refresh or session token to acquire a delegated access token (to access APIs such as Microsoft Graph). If this happens, the application needs to acquire a new refresh token by requesting the authorized endpoint. Read-only. Use revokeSignInSessions to reset. Returned only on $select. |
| skills | String collection | A list for the user to enumerate their skills. Returned only on $select. |
| state | String | The state or province in the user's address. Maximum length is 128 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| streetAddress | String | The street address of the user's place of business. Maximum length is 1,024 characters. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| surname | String | The user's surname (family name or last name). Maximum length is 64 characters. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| usageLocation | String | A two-letter country code (ISO standard 3166). Required for users that are assigned licenses due to legal requirements to check for availability of services in countries. Examples include: US, JP, and GB. Not nullable. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, and eq on null values). |
| userPrincipalName | String | The user principal name (UPN) of the user. The UPN is an Internet-style sign-in name for the user based on the Internet standard RFC 822. By convention, this value should map to the user's email name. The general format is alias@domain, where the domain must be present in the tenant's collection of verified domains. This property is required when a user is created. The verified domains for the tenant can be accessed from the verifiedDomains property of organization. NOTE: This property can't contain accent characters. Only the following characters are allowed A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, ' . - _ ! # ^ ~. For the complete list of allowed characters, see username policies. Returned by default. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, ge, le, in, startsWith, endsWith) and $orderby. |
| userType | String | A string value that can be used to classify user types in your directory. The possible values are Member and Guest. Returned only on $select. Supports $filter (eq, ne, not, in, and eq on null values). **N |