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.

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. Authentication Policy Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

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 only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property Type Description
allowExternalIdToUseEmailOtp externalEmailOtpState Determines whether email OTP is usable by external users for authentication. Possible values are: default, enabled, disabled, unknownFutureValue.
excludeTargets excludeTarget collection Groups of users that are excluded from the policy.
state authenticationMethodState Indicates whether this authentication method is enabled or not. Possible values are: enabled, disabled.

Note: You must include the @odata.type property with a value of #microsoft.graph.emailAuthenticationMethodConfiguration in the request body.

Response

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

Examples

Request

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

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 NO CONTENT