List authenticationMethodModes

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a list of all supported authentication methods, or all supported authentication method combinations as a list of authenticationMethodModes objects and their properties.

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.Read.All	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Policy.Read.All	Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess

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.

• Conditional Access administrator
• Security Administrator
• Security Reader

HTTP request

Retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions.

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/authenticationMethodModes

Retrieve the flat collection of authenticationCombinations objects, representing all the allowed combinations (allowedCombinations) in an authenticationStrengthPolicy object.

GET /identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations

Optional query parameters

This method does not support OData query parameters.

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 collection of authenticationMethodModeDetail objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Retrieve authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions

Request

The following example shows a request to retrieve the collection of authenticationMethodModes objects and their descriptions.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/authenticationMethodModes

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.Identity.ConditionalAccess.AuthenticationStrength.AuthenticationMethodModes.GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc identity conditional-access authentication-strength authentication-method-modes list

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
authenticationMethodModes, err := graphClient.Identity().ConditionalAccess().AuthenticationStrength().AuthenticationMethodModes().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);

AuthenticationMethodModeDetailCollectionResponse result = graphClient.identity().conditionalAccess().authenticationStrength().authenticationMethodModes().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 authenticationMethodModes = await client.api('/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/authenticationMethodModes')
	.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->identity()->conditionalAccess()->authenticationStrength()->authenticationMethodModes()->get()->wait();

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.identity.conditional_access.authentication_strength.authentication_method_modes.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#authenticationMethodModeDetail",
  "value": [
    {
        "id" : "password",
        "displayName" : "Password",
        "authenticationMethod" : "password"
    },
    {
        "id" : "voice",
        "displayName" : "Voice",
        "authenticationMethod" : "voice"
    },
    {
        "id" : "softwareOath",
        "displayName" : "Software OATH tokens",
        "authenticationMethod" : "softwareOath"
    },
    {
        "id" : "sms",
        "displayName" : "SMS",
        "authenticationMethod" : "sms"
    },
    {
        "id" : "fido2",
        "displayName" : "FIDO2 Security Key",
        "authenticationMethod" : "fido2"
    },
    {
        "id" : "windowsHelloForBusiness",
        "displayName" : "Windows Hello for Business",
        "authenticationMethod" : "windowsHelloForBusiness"
    },
    {
        "id" : "microsoftAuthenticatorPush",
        "displayName" : "Microsoft Authenticator (push notification)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "microsoftAuthenticator"
    },
    {
        "id" : "deviceBasedPush",
        "displayName" : "Microsoft Authenticator (Passwordless)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "microsoftAuthenticator"
    },
    {
        "id" : "temporaryAccessPassOneTime",
        "displayName" : "Temporary Access Pass (one-time use)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "temporaryAccessPass"
    },
    {
        "id" : "temporaryAccessPassMultiUse",
        "displayName" : "Temporary Access Pass (multi-use)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "temporaryAccessPass"
    },
    {
        "id" : "email",
        "displayName" : "Email one-time passcode",
        "authenticationMethod" : "email"
    },
    {
        "id" : "x509CertificateSingleFactor",
        "displayName" : "Certificate-based authentication (single factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "x509Certificate"
    },
    {
        "id" : "federatedMultiFactor",
        "displayName" : "Federation (multifactor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id" : "federatedSingleFactor",
        "displayName" : "Federation (single factor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "federation"
    },
    {
        "id": "x509CertificateMultiFactor",
        "displayName" : "Certificate-based authentication (multifactor)",
        "authenticationMethod" : "x509Certificate"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Retrieve the allowed authentication combinations

Request

The following example shows a request to retrieve the flat collection of authenticationCombinations objects, representing all the possible allowed combinations (allowedCombinations) that may be used in an authenticationStrengthPolicy object.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations

C#

Snippet not available

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

CLI

Snippet not available

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

Go

Snippet not available

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

Java

Snippet not available

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 combinations = await client.api('/identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations')
	.get();

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

PHP

Snippet not available

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

Python

Snippet not available

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#identity/conditionalAccess/authenticationStrength/combinations",
    "value": [
        "windowsHelloForBusiness",
        "fido2",
        "x509CertificateMultiFactor",
        "deviceBasedPush",
        "temporaryAccessPassOneTime",
        "temporaryAccessPassMultiUse",
        "password,microsoftAuthenticatorPush",
        "password,softwareOath",
        "password,hardwareOath",
        "password,sms",
        "password,voice",
        "federatedMultiFactor",
        "microsoftAuthenticatorPush,federatedSingleFactor",
        "softwareOath,federatedSingleFactor",
        "hardwareOath,federatedSingleFactor",
        "sms,federatedSingleFactor",
        "voice,federatedSingleFactor",
        "x509CertificateSingleFactor",
        "sms",
        "password",
        "federatedSingleFactor",
        "email"
    ]
}