List orgContacts

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 the list of organizational contacts for this organization.

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) OrgContact.Read.All Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application OrgContact.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.

  • Directory Readers - read basic properties
  • Global Reader
  • Directory Writers
  • Intune Administrator
  • User Administrator

HTTP request

GET /contacts

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $count, $expand, $filter, $orderby, $search, $select, and $top OData query parameters to help customize the response. Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
ConsistencyLevel eventual. This header and $count are required when using $search, or in specific usage of $filter. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of orgContact objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get organizational contacts for an organization

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/contacts

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "companyName":"Contoso",
      "department":"Accounting",
      "displayName":"Eric Solomon",
      "givenName":"Eric",
      "jobTitle":"Accountant",
      "mail":"erics@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"erics",
      "surname":"Solomon",
      "addresses":[
        {
          "city":"MyCity",
          "countryOrRegion":"United States",
          "officeLocation":"MyCity",
          "postalCode":"98000",
          "state":"WA",
          "street":"Contoso Way"
        }
      ],
      "phones":[
        {
          "number":"111-1111",
          "type":"businessFax"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Get only a count of organizational contacts

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $count is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/contacts/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

893

Example 3: Use $filter and $top to get one organizational contact with a display name that starts with 'a' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and the $count=true query string because the request has both the $orderby and $filter query parameters. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/contacts?$filter=startswith(displayName,'A')&$count=true&$top=1&$orderby=displayName
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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/beta/$metadata#contacts",
  "@odata.count":1,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Abigail Jackson",
      "mail":"abigailJ@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"abigailJ"
    }
  ]
}

Example 4: Use $search to get organizational contacts with display names that contain the letters 'wa' including a count of returned objects

Request

The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $search and the $count=true query string is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/contacts?$search="displayName:wa"&$count=true
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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/beta/$metadata#contacts",
  "@odata.count":22,
  "value":[
    {
      "displayName":"Nicole Wagner",
      "mail":"nicolewa@contoso.com",
      "mailNickname":"nicolewa"
    }
  ]
}