Read Group

Read information about an Office 365 group.

Input

Field Definition Type Required

Group

Id

The unique identifier for the group.

Text

FALSE

Output

Field Definition Type

Group

Allow External Senders

Indicates if people external to the organization can send messages to the group. The default value is false.

True/False

Assigned Licenses

Licenses that are assigned to the group.

List of Objects

Auto Subscribe New Members

Indicates if new members added to the group get auto-subscribed to receive email notifications.

You can set this property in a PATCH request for the group. Don't set it in the initial POST request that creates the group. The default value is false.

True/False

Classification

Describes a classification for the group (such as low, medium, or high business impact). Valid values for this property are defined by creating Classification List setting values, based on the groupSetting template definition.

See the groupSetting and groupSettingtemplate resource types.

Text

Created Date Time

Timestamp of when the group was created. The value can't be modified and is automatically populated when the group is created.

The timestamp represents date and time information using the ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC time.

For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is expressed as 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Text

Description

An optional description for the group.

Text

Display Name

The display name for the group.

The maximum length is 256 characters.

Text

Group Types

  • Office 365 - Assigned Membership - Office 365 group with assigned memberships.

  • Office 365 - Dynamic Membership - Office 365 group with dynamically assigned memberships.

  • Dynamic - Assigned Membership - Security group with assigned memberships.

  • Dynamic - Dynamic Membership - Security group with dynamic memberships.

List of Text

Id

The unique identifier for the group.

Text

Is Subscribed By Mail

  • true if the signed-in user is subscribed to receive email conversations

  • false otherwise.

The default value is true.

True/False

License Processing State

Indicates the status of the group license assignment to all members of the group. Read-only.

Possible values: QueuedForProcessing, ProcessingInProgress, and ProcessingComplete.

Text

Mail

The SMTP address for the group.

For example, serviceadmins@contoso.onmicrosoft.com.

Text

Mail Enabled

Specifies whether the group is mail-enabled.

True/False

Mail Nickname

The mail alias for the group. This is unique for groups in the organization.

Text

On Premises Last Sync Date Time

This is when the group was last synced with the on-premises directory. This is a timestamp value that follows the ISO 8601 format and is in UTC time.

For example, midnight UTC on January 1, 2014 is expressed as 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Text

On Premises Provisioning Errors

Errors when using a Microsoft synchronization product during provisioning.

List of Objects

On Premises Security Identifier

Contains the on-premises security identifier (SID) for the group that was synchronized from on-premises to the cloud.

Text

On Premises Sync Enabled

  • true if this group is synced from an on-premises directory

  • false if this group was originally synced from an on-premises directory but is no longer synced

  • null if this object has never been synced from an on-premises directory (default).

True/False

Preferred Data Location

The preferred data location for the group.

See OneDrive Online Multi-Geo.

Text

Proxy Addresses

Email addresses for the group that direct to the same group mailbox.

For example, ["SMTP: bob@contoso.com", "smtp: bob@sales.contoso.com"]. The any operator is required to filter expressions through multi-valued properties.

List of Text

Renewed Date Time

Timestamp of when the group was last renewed. The value can't be modified and is automatically populated through the renew service action.

The timestamp represents date and time information using the ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC time.

For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is expressed as 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Text

Security Enabled

Specifies whether the group is a security group.

True/False

Unseen Count

The number of conversations that have received new posts since the signed-in user last visited the group.

Number

Visibility

Specifies the group join policy and group content visibility for groups.

Text

Public

Anyone can join the group without needing owner permission. Anyone can view the contents of the group.

Text

Private

Owner permission is needed to join the group. Non-members can't view the contents of the group.

Text

Hiddenmembership

Owner permission is needed to join the group. Non-members can't view the contents of the group. Non-members can't see the members of the group. Administrators (global, company, user, and help desk) can view the membership of the group. The group appears in the global address book (GAL).

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Related topics

Azure Active Directory connector

Workflow elements

Guidance for Azure Active Directory connector

Azure Active Directory Management API overview