Get presence

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10/27/2023

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.

Get a user's presence information.

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)	Presence.Read	Presence.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Presence.Read.All	Presence.ReadWrite.All

Note

You can't use application permissions to access APIs under the /me path.

HTTP Request

GET /users/{id}/presence
GET /communications/presences
GET /me/presence

Request Headers

Name	Description
Authorization	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 a presence object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get your own presence information

The following example shows how to get your own presence information. This operation requires the Presence.Read permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/presence


// 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.Me.Presence.GetAsync();

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 users presence get --user-id {user-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
presence, err := graphClient.Me().Presence().Get(context.Background(), 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);

Presence result = graphClient.me().presence().get();

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);

let presence = await client.api('/me/presence')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->presence()->get()->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.CloudCommunications

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserPresence -UserId $userId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.presence.get()

Important

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 1574

{
  "id": "fa8bf3dc-eca7-46b7-bad1-db199b62afc3",
  "availability": "Available",
  "activity": "Available",
  "outOfOfficeSettings": {
    "message": null,
    "isOutOfOffice": false
  }
}

Example 2: Get the presence information of another user

The following example shows how to get the presence information for another user. This operation requires the Presence.Read.All permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/66825e03-7ef5-42da-9069-724602c31f6b/presence


// 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.Users["{user-id}"].Presence.GetAsync();

Important

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



mgc-beta users presence get --user-id {user-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
presence, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Presence().Get(context.Background(), 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);

Presence result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").presence().get();

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);

let presence = await client.api('/users/66825e03-7ef5-42da-9069-724602c31f6b/presence')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->presence()->get()->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.CloudCommunications

Get-MgBetaUserPresence -UserId $userId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').presence.get()

Important

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 1574

{
  "id": "66825e03-7ef5-42da-9069-724602c31f6b",
  "availability": "DoNotDisturb",
  "activity": "Presenting",
  "outOfOfficeSettings": {
    "message": null,
    "isOutOfOffice": false
  }
}

Example 3: Get the presence information of another user

The following example shows how to get the presence information for another user. This operation requires the Presence.Read.All permission.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/communications/presences/dc74d9bb-6afe-433d-8eaa-e39d80d3a647


// 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.Communications.Presences["{presence-id}"].GetAsync();

Important

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



mgc-beta communications presences get --presence-id {presence-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
presences, err := graphClient.Communications().Presences().ByPresenceId("presence-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

Presence result = graphClient.communications().presences().byPresenceId("{presence-id}").get();

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);

let presence = await client.api('/communications/presences/dc74d9bb-6afe-433d-8eaa-e39d80d3a647')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->communications()->presences()->byPresenceId('presence-id')->get()->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.CloudCommunications

Get-MgBetaCommunicationPresence -PresenceId $presenceId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.communications.presences.by_presence_id('presence-id').get()

Important

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
  "id": "dc74d9bb-6afe-433d-8eaa-e39d80d3a647",
  "availability": "Away",
  "activity": "BeRightBack",
  "outOfOfficeSettings": {
    "message": null,
    "isOutOfOffice": false
  }
}

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HTTP Request

Request Headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Get your own presence information

Request

Response

Example 2: Get the presence information of another user

Request

Response

Example 3: Get the presence information of another user

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Response

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Permissions

HTTP Request

Request Headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Get your own presence information

Request

Response

Example 2: Get the presence information of another user

Request

Response

Example 3: Get the presence information of another user

Request

Response

Related content

Feedback

Additional resources