Get device

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get the properties and relationships of a device object.

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)	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

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 least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Users
• Directory Readers
• Directory Writers
• Compliance Administrator
• Device Managers
• Application Administrator
• Security Reader
• Security Administrator
• Privileged Role Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator
• Customer LockBox Access Approver
• Dynamics 365 Administrator
• Power BI Administrator
• Desktop Analytics Administrator
• Microsoft Managed Desktop Administrator
• Teams Communications Administrator
• Teams Communications Support Engineer
• Teams Communications Support Specialist
• Teams Administrator
• Compliance Data Administrator
• Security Operator
• Kaizala Administrator
• Global Reader
• Directory Reviewer
• Windows 365 Administrator

HTTP request

You can address the device using either its id or deviceId.

GET /devices/{id}
GET /devices(deviceId='{deviceId}')

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	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 device object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get a device

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices/000005c3-b7a6-4c61-89fc-80bf5ccfc366

C#

// 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.Devices["{device-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc devices get --device-id {device-id}

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

Go

// 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
devices, err := graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").get();

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);

let device = await client.api('/devices/000005c3-b7a6-4c61-89fc-80bf5ccfc366')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->get()->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.DirectoryManagement

Get-MgDevice -DeviceId $deviceId

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

Python

# 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.devices.by_device_id('device-id').get()

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/v1.0/$metadata#devices/$entity",
  "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/directoryObjects/000005c3-b7a6-4c61-89fc-80bf5ccfc366/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Device",
  "accountEnabled":false,
  "deviceId":"6fa60d52-01e7-4b18-8055-4759461fc16b",
  "displayName":"DESKTOP-858MANH",
  "id": "000005c3-b7a6-4c61-89fc-80bf5ccfc366",
  "operatingSystem":"Windows",
  "operatingSystemVersion":"10.0.19043.1165"
}

Example 2: Get a device and return only its id and extensionAttributes properties

Request

The following request retrieves the id and extensionAttributes property of a device.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/devices/6a59ea83-02bd-468f-a40b-f2c3d1821983?$select=id,extensionAttributes

C#

// 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.Devices["{device-id}"].GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "id","extensionAttributes" };
});

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

CLI

mgc-beta devices get --device-id {device-id} --select "id,extensionAttributes"

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

Go

// 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"
	  graphdevices "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/devices"
	  //other-imports
)

requestParameters := &graphdevices.DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Select: [] string {"id","extensionAttributes"},
}
configuration := &graphdevices.DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

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

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);

Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"id", "extensionAttributes"};
});

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);

let device = await client.api('/devices/6a59ea83-02bd-468f-a40b-f2c3d1821983')
	.version('beta')
	.select('id,extensionAttributes')
	.get();

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Devices\Item\DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->select = ["id","extensionAttributes"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->get($requestConfiguration)->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.Beta.Identity.DirectoryManagement

Get-MgBetaDevice -DeviceId $deviceId -Property "id,extensionAttributes" 

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.devices.item.device_item_request_builder import DeviceItemRequestBuilder
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 = DeviceItemRequestBuilder.DeviceItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		select = ["id","extensionAttributes"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-id').get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#devices(id,extensionAttributes)/$entity",
    "id": "6a59ea83-02bd-468f-a40b-f2c3d1821983",
    "extensionAttributes": {
        "extensionAttribute1": "BYOD-Device",
        "extensionAttribute2": null,
        "extensionAttribute3": null,
        "extensionAttribute4": null,
        "extensionAttribute5": null,
        "extensionAttribute6": null,
        "extensionAttribute7": null,
        "extensionAttribute8": null,
        "extensionAttribute9": null,
        "extensionAttribute10": null,
        "extensionAttribute11": null,
        "extensionAttribute12": null,
        "extensionAttribute13": null,
        "extensionAttribute14": null,
        "extensionAttribute15": null
    }
}