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)
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they 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.
Authentication Administrator
Privileged Authentication Administrator
Users cannot update their own email authentication method.
HTTP request
The ID of the email authentication method, referenced by {emailMethods-id}, is always 3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f.
Update the email authentication method for another user's account.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod
{
EmailAddress = "kim@contoso.com",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.EmailMethods["{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
// 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"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewEmailAuthenticationMethod()
emailAddress := "kim@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmailAddress(&emailAddress)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
emailMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().EmailMethods().ByEmailAuthenticationMethodId("emailAuthenticationMethod-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
EmailAuthenticationMethod emailAuthenticationMethod = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
emailAuthenticationMethod.setEmailAddress("kim@contoso.com");
EmailAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().emailMethods().byEmailAuthenticationMethodId("{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}").patch(emailAuthenticationMethod);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAuthenticationMethod;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setEmailAddress('kim@contoso.com');
$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->emailMethods()->byEmailAuthenticationMethodId('emailAuthenticationMethod-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.email_authentication_method import EmailAuthenticationMethod
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EmailAuthenticationMethod(
email_address = "kim@contoso.com",
)
result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.email_methods.by_email_authentication_method_id('emailAuthenticationMethod-id').patch(request_body)