Operations on the signed-in user | Graph API reference

Article
01/26/2016

Applies to: Graph API | Azure Active Directory

This topic discusses how to perform operations on the signed-in user with the Azure Active Directory (AD) Graph API by using the me alias. With the Azure AD Graph API, you can read and update properties of the signed-in user. You can also query and modify a the signed-in user's relationships to other directory entities. For example, you can assign the signed-in user's manager, query the user's direct reports, manage group memberships, app roles, and devices assigned to the user, and much more.

The Azure AD Graph API is an OData 3.0 compliant REST API that provides programmatic access to directory objects in Azure Active Directory, such as users, groups, organizational contacts, and applications.

This article applies to Azure AD Graph API. For similar info related to Microsoft Graph API, see Working with users in Microsoft Graph.

Caution

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph is deprecated and is currently in its retirement path. We recommend that you migrate your apps to Microsoft Graph.

To start migrating your apps, see Migrate your apps from Azure AD Graph to Microsoft Graph.
For the latest announcement, see Important: Azure AD Graph Retirement.

Performing REST operations on the signed-in user

You can use the me alias to target the signed-in user. To perform operations on the signed-in user with the Graph API, you send HTTP requests with a supported method (GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, or DELETE) to an endpoint that uses the me alias to target the signed-in user, a navigation property of the user, or a function or action that can be called on the user.

Graph API requests use the following basic URL:

https://graph.windows.net/{tenant_id}/{resource_path}?{api_version}[odata_query_parameters]

Important

Requests sent to the Graph API must be well-formed, target a valid endpoint and version of the Graph API, and carry a valid access token obtained from Azure AD in their Authorization header. For more detailed information about creating requests and receiving responses with the Graph API, see Operations Overview.

You use can use the me alias to target the signed-in user. This alias replaces the {tenant id} and {resource path} segments in the request URL. When you send a request to the Graph API with the me alias, it derives the tenant and user from the bearer token attached to the request. For example, sending a GET request to https://graph.windows.net/me?api-version=1.6 will return the user object of the signed-in user.

You specify the URL differently depending on whether you are targeting the signed-in user or one of its navigation properties.

me targets the signed-in user. You can use this resource path to get the declared properties of the user and to modify the declared properties of the user.
me/{nav_property} targets the specified navigation property of the signed-in user. You can use it to return the object or objects referenced by the target navigation property of the user. Note: This form of addressing is only available for reads.
me/$links/{nav_property} targets the specified navigation property of the signed-in user. You can use this form of addressing to both read and modify a navigation property. On reads, the objects referenced by the property are returned as one or more links in the response body. On writes, the objects are specified as one or more links in the request body.

For example, the following request returns a link to the signed-in user's manager:

GET https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager?api-version=1.6

Basic operations on the signed-in user

You can read the signed-in user and update its declared properties by using the me alias. The following topics show you how.

Get the signed-in user

Gets the signed-in user.

On success, returns the User object for the signed-in user; otherwise, the response body contains error details. For more information about errors, see Error Codes and Error Handling.

GET https://graph.windows.net/me?api-version

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Value	Notes
Query
api-version	string		Specifies the version of the Graph API to target. Beginning with version 1.5, the api-version string is represented in major.minor format. Prior releases were represented as date strings: '2013-11-08' and '2013-04-05'. Required.

Response

Status Code:200

Content-Type: application/json

{
   {
  "odata.metadata": "https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/$metadata#directoryObjects/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.User/@Element",
  "odata.type": "Microsoft.DirectoryServices.User",
  "objectType": "User",
  "objectId": "13addec1-c5ae-47f5-a1fe-202be14b1570",
  "deletionTimestamp": null,
  "accountEnabled": true,
  "signInNames": [],
  "assignedLicenses": [
    {
      "disabledPlans": [],
      "skuId": "6fd2c87f-b296-42f0-b197-1e91e994b900"
    }
  ],
  "assignedPlans": [
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "exchange",
      "servicePlanId": "efb87545-963c-4e0d-99df-69c6916d9eb0"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "SharePoint",
      "servicePlanId": "5dbe027f-2339-4123-9542-606e4d348a72"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "SharePoint",
      "servicePlanId": "e95bec33-7c88-4a70-8e19-b10bd9d0c014"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "MicrosoftCommunicationsOnline",
      "servicePlanId": "0feaeb32-d00e-4d66-bd5a-43b5b83db82c"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "MicrosoftOffice",
      "servicePlanId": "43de0ff5-c92c-492b-9116-175376d08c38"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "RMSOnline",
      "servicePlanId": "bea4c11e-220a-4e6d-8eb8-8ea15d019f90"
    }
  ],
  "city": "Tulsa",
  "country": "United States",
  "creationType": null,
  "department": "Sales & Marketing",
  "dirSyncEnabled": null,
  "displayName": "Garth Fort",
  "facsimileTelephoneNumber": null,
  "givenName": "Garth",
  "immutableId": null,
  "jobTitle": "Web Marketing Manager",
  "lastDirSyncTime": null,
  "mail": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "mailNickname": "garthf",
  "mobile": null,
  "onPremisesSecurityIdentifier": null,
  "otherMails": [],
  "passwordPolicies": "None",
  "passwordProfile": null,
  "physicalDeliveryOfficeName": "20/1101",
  "postalCode": "74133",
  "preferredLanguage": "en-US",
  "provisionedPlans": [
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "exchange"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "MicrosoftCommunicationsOnline"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "SharePoint"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "SharePoint"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "MicrosoftOffice"
    }
  ],
  "provisioningErrors": [],
  "proxyAddresses": [
    "SMTP:garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com"
  ],
  "sipProxyAddress": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "state": "OK",
  "streetAddress": "7633 E. 63rd Place, Suite 300",
  "surname": "Fort",
  "telephoneNumber": "+1 918 555 0101",
  "usageLocation": "US",
  "userPrincipalName": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "userType": "Member"
}

Response List

Status Code	Description
200	OK. Indicates success. The signed-in user is returned in the response body.

Code Samples

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
	    static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();

            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            /* OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
               https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks */



		   // Specify values for the following required parameters
			queryString["api-version"] = "1.6";
            // Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
            var uri = "https://graph.windows.net/me?" + queryString;


            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);

            if (response.Content != null)
            {
                var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                Console.WriteLine(responseString);
            }
        }
    }
}

@ECHO OFF

REM OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks
REM Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}), values for query parameters
curl -v -X GET "https://graph.windows.net/me?api-version=1.6&amp;"^

// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
	HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

	try
	{
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
		URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://graph.windows.net/me");
		// Specify values for the following required parameters
		builder.setParameter("api-version", "1.6");
		URI uri = builder.build();
		HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
		HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
		HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
		if (entity != null) {
			System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
		}
	}
	catch (Exception e)
	{
		System.out.println(e.getMessage());
	}
  }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function() {
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		var params = {
			// Specify values for the following required parameters
			'api-version': "1.6",
		};
		
		$.ajax({
			// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
			url: 'https://graph.windows.net/me?' + $.param(params),
			type: 'GET',
		})
		.done(function(data) {
			alert("success");
		})
		.fail(function() {
			alert("error");
		});
	});
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
	// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
	// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

	// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
    NSString* path = @"https://graph.windows.net/me";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    if(nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if(nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

<?php

// This sample uses the pecl_http package. (for more information: http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$headers = array(
);

$query_params = array(
	// Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version' => '1.6',
);

$request = new Http_Request2('https://graph.windows.net/me');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setHeader($headers);

// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

$url = $request->getUrl();
$url->setQueryVariables($query_params);

try
{
	$response = $request->send();
	
	echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
	echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://graph.windows.net/me')

uri.query = URI.encode_www_form({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version' => '1.6',
})

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks



response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

Update the signed-in user

Updates properties of the signed-in user. Specify any writable User property in the request body. Only the properties that you specify are changed.

On success, no response body is returned; otherwise, the response body contains error details. For more information about errors, see Error Codes and Error Handling.

PATCH https://graph.windows.net/me[?api-version]

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Value	Notes
Query
api-version	string	1.6	Specifies the version of the Graph API to target. Beginning with version 1.5, the api-version string is represented in major.minor format. Prior releases were represented as date strings: '2013-11-08' and '2013-04-05'. Required.
Body
Content-Type: application/json `{ "department": "Sales", "usageLocation": "US" }`

Response

Status Code:204

Content-Type: application/json

none

Response List

Status Code	Description
204	No Content. Indicates success. No response body is returned.

Relationships between a user and other objects in the directory such as the user's manager, direct group memberships, and direct reports are exposed through navigation properties. When you use the me alias, you can read and, in some cases, modify these relationships by targeting these navigation properties in your requests.

Get the signed-in user's manager (object)

Gets the signed-in user's manager (object) from the manager navigation property.

On success, returns the User or Contact assigned as the user's manager; otherwise, the response body contains error details. For more information about errors, see Error Codes and Error Handling.

Returns 404 Not Found if the user does not have a manager assigned.

GET https://graph.windows.net/me/manager?api-version

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Value	Notes
Query
api-version	string		Specifies the version of the Graph API to target. Beginning with version 1.5, the api-version string is represented in major.minor format. Prior releases were represented as date strings: '2013-11-08' and '2013-04-05'. Required.

Response

Status Code:200

Content-Type: application/json

{
  "odata.metadata": "https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/$metadata#directoryObjects/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.User/@Element",
  "odata.type": "Microsoft.DirectoryServices.User",
  "objectType": "User",
  "objectId": "13addec1-c5ae-47f5-a1fe-202be14b1570",
  "deletionTimestamp": null,
  "accountEnabled": true,
  "signInNames": [],
  "assignedLicenses": [
    {
      "disabledPlans": [],
      "skuId": "6fd2c87f-b296-42f0-b197-1e91e994b900"
    }
  ],
  "assignedPlans": [
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "exchange",
      "servicePlanId": "efb87545-963c-4e0d-99df-69c6916d9eb0"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "SharePoint",
      "servicePlanId": "5dbe027f-2339-4123-9542-606e4d348a72"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "SharePoint",
      "servicePlanId": "e95bec33-7c88-4a70-8e19-b10bd9d0c014"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "MicrosoftCommunicationsOnline",
      "servicePlanId": "0feaeb32-d00e-4d66-bd5a-43b5b83db82c"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "MicrosoftOffice",
      "servicePlanId": "43de0ff5-c92c-492b-9116-175376d08c38"
    },
    {
      "assignedTimestamp": "2014-10-14T02:54:04Z",
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "service": "RMSOnline",
      "servicePlanId": "bea4c11e-220a-4e6d-8eb8-8ea15d019f90"
    }
  ],
  "city": "Tulsa",
  "country": "United States",
  "creationType": null,
  "department": "Sales & Marketing",
  "dirSyncEnabled": null,
  "displayName": "Garth Fort",
  "facsimileTelephoneNumber": null,
  "givenName": "Garth",
  "immutableId": null,
  "jobTitle": "Web Marketing Manager",
  "lastDirSyncTime": null,
  "mail": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "mailNickname": "garthf",
  "mobile": null,
  "onPremisesSecurityIdentifier": null,
  "otherMails": [],
  "passwordPolicies": "None",
  "passwordProfile": null,
  "physicalDeliveryOfficeName": "20/1101",
  "postalCode": "74133",
  "preferredLanguage": "en-US",
  "provisionedPlans": [
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "exchange"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "MicrosoftCommunicationsOnline"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "SharePoint"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "SharePoint"
    },
    {
      "capabilityStatus": "Enabled",
      "provisioningStatus": "Success",
      "service": "MicrosoftOffice"
    }
  ],
  "provisioningErrors": [],
  "proxyAddresses": [
    "SMTP:garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com"
  ],
  "sipProxyAddress": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "state": "OK",
  "streetAddress": "7633 E. 63rd Place, Suite 300",
  "surname": "Fort",
  "telephoneNumber": "+1 918 555 0101",
  "usageLocation": "US",
  "userPrincipalName": "garthf@a830edad9050849NDA1.onmicrosoft.com",
  "userType": "Member"
}

Response List

Status Code	Description
200	OK. Indicates success. The signed-in user is returned in the response body.

Code Samples

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
	    static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();

            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            /* OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
               https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks */



		   // Specify values for the following required parameters
			queryString["api-version"] = "1.6";
            // Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
            var uri = "https://graph.windows.net/me/manager?" + queryString;


            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);

            if (response.Content != null)
            {
                var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                Console.WriteLine(responseString);
            }
        }
    }
}

@ECHO OFF

REM OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks
REM Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}), values for query parameters
curl -v -X GET "https://graph.windows.net/me/manager?api-version=1.6&amp;"^

// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
	HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

	try
	{
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
		URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://graph.windows.net/me/manager");
		// Specify values for the following required parameters
		builder.setParameter("api-version", "1.6");
		URI uri = builder.build();
		HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
		HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
		HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
		if (entity != null) {
			System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
		}
	}
	catch (Exception e)
	{
		System.out.println(e.getMessage());
	}
  }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function() {
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		var params = {
			// Specify values for the following required parameters
			'api-version': "1.6",
		};
		
		$.ajax({
			// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
			url: 'https://graph.windows.net/me/manager?' + $.param(params),
			type: 'GET',
		})
		.done(function(data) {
			alert("success");
		})
		.fail(function() {
			alert("error");
		});
	});
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
	// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
	// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

	// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
    NSString* path = @"https://graph.windows.net/me/manager";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    if(nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if(nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

<?php

// This sample uses the pecl_http package. (for more information: http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$headers = array(
);

$query_params = array(
	// Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version' => '1.6',
);

$request = new Http_Request2('https://graph.windows.net/me/manager');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setHeader($headers);

// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

$url = $request->getUrl();
$url->setQueryVariables($query_params);

try
{
	$response = $request->send();
	
	echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
	echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me/manager?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me/manager?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://graph.windows.net/me/manager')

uri.query = URI.encode_www_form({
	# Specify values for the following required parameters
	'api-version' => '1.6',
})

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks



response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

Get the signed-in user's manager (link)

Gets a link to the signed-in user's manager from the manager navigation property.

On success, returns a link to the User or Contact assigned as the user's manager; otherwise, the response body contains error details. For more information about errors, see Error Codes and Error Handling.

Returns 404 Not Found if the user does not have a manager assigned.

GET https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager[?api-version]

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Value	Notes
Query
api-version	string		Specifies the version of the Graph API to target. Beginning with version 1.5, the api-version string is represented in major.minor format. Prior releases were represented as date strings: '2013-11-08' and '2013-04-05'. Required.

Response

Status Code:200

Content-Type: application/json

{
  "odata.metadata": "https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/$metadata#directoryObjects/$links/manager",
  "url": "https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/directoryObjects/fabeb27a-0481-4a80-b43e-a5c02c125874/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ActiveDirectory.User"
}

Response List

Status Code	Description
200	OK. Indicates success. A link to the signed-in user's manager is returned.
404	Not Found. The requested resource was not found. This could be due to a bad domain, a bad user ID, or can occur if the manager property is not currently set for the specified user.

Code Samples

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
	    static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();

            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            /* OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
               https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks */



			// Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
			// queryString["api-version"] = "1.6";
            // Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
            var uri = "https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager?" + queryString;


            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);

            if (response.Content != null)
            {
                var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                Console.WriteLine(responseString);
            }
        }
    }
}

@ECHO OFF

REM OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks
REM Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}), values for query parameters
curl -v -X GET "https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager?api-version=1.6&amp;"^

// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
	HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

	try
	{
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
		URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager");
		// Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
		// builder.setParameter("api-version", "1.6");
		URI uri = builder.build();
		HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
		HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
		HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
		if (entity != null) {
			System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
		}
	}
	catch (Exception e)
	{
		System.out.println(e.getMessage());
	}
  }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function() {
		// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
		// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

		var params = {
			// Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
			// api-version: "1.6",
		};
		
		$.ajax({
			// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
			url: 'https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager?' + $.param(params),
			type: 'GET',
		})
		.done(function(data) {
			alert("success");
		})
		.fail(function() {
			alert("error");
		});
	});
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
	// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
	// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

	// Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...})
    NSString* path = @"https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    if(nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if(nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

<?php

// This sample uses the pecl_http package. (for more information: http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$headers = array(
);

$query_params = array(
	// Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
	//'api-version' => '1.6',
);

$request = new Http_Request2('https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setHeader($headers);

// OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit:
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

$url = $request->getUrl();
$url->setQueryVariables($query_params);

try
{
	$response = $request->send();
	
	echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
	echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
	# Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
	#'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me/$links/manager?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks

headers = {
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
	# Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
	#'api-version': '1.6',
})

try:
	conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('graph.windows.net')
	# Specify values for path parameters (shown as {...}) and request body if needed
	conn.request("GET", "/me/$links/manager?%s" % params, "", headers)
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = response.read()
	print(data)
	conn.close()
except Exception as e:
	print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager')

uri.query = URI.encode_www_form({
	# Specify values for optional parameters, as needed
	# 'api-version' => '1.6',
})

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

# OAuth2 is required to access this API. For more information visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/common-app-authentication-tasks



response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

Update the signed-in user's manager

Assigns the signed-in user's manager through the manager property. Either a user or a contact may be assigned. The request body contains a link to the User or Contact to assign.

On success, no response body is returned; otherwise, the response body contains error details. For more information about errors, see Error Codes and Error Handling.

PUT https://graph.windows.net/me/$links/manager?api-version

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Value	Notes
Query
api-version	string	1.6	Specifies the version of the Graph API to target. Beginning with version 1.5, the api-version string is represented in major.minor format. Prior releases were represented as date strings: '2013-11-08' and '2013-04-05'. Required.
Body
Content-Type: application/json `{ "url": "https://graph.windows.net/contoso.onmicrosoft.com/directoryObjects/fabeb27a-0481-4a80-b43e-a5c02c125874" }`

Response

Status Code:204

Content-Type: application/json

none

Response List

Status Code	Description
204	No Content. Indicates success. No response body is returned.
404	Not Found. The requested resource was not found. For exmaple, this could be due to a bad domain.

By using the same patterns shown above, you can target other navigation properties exposed by users. Some properties are read-only and others may be modified. For more information about user navigation properties, see the documentation for User.

Functions and actions on the signed-in user

You can call any of the following functions or actions on the signed-in user by using the me alias.

Assign and remove licenses

You can call the assignLicense action to assign or remove licenses for a user and to enable or disable specific plans for the user.

Change password of the signed-in user

You can call the changePassword action to enable the signed-in user to change their password.

Check membership in a list of groups (transitive)

You can call the checkMemberGroups function to check for membership in a list of groups. The check is transitive.

Get all group memberships (transitive)

You can call the getMemberGroups function to return all the groups that the user is a member of. The check is transitive, unlike reading the memberOf navigation property, which returns only the groups that the user is a direct member of.

Get all group and directory role memberships (transitive)

You can call the getMemberObjects function to return all of the groups and directory roles that the user is a member of. The check is transitive, unlike reading the memberOf navigation property, which returns only the groups that the user is a direct member of.

Additional Resources

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Performing REST operations on the signed-in user

Basic operations on the signed-in user

Get the signed-in user

Response List

Update the signed-in user

Operations on navigation properties

Get the signed-in user's manager (object)

Parameters

Response List

Get the signed-in user's manager (link)

Parameters

Update the signed-in user's manager

Response List

Other navigation properties

Functions and actions on the signed-in user

Assign and remove licenses

Change password of the signed-in user

Check membership in a list of groups (transitive)

Get all group memberships (transitive)

Get all group and directory role memberships (transitive)

Additional Resources

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