Get upgrade block details for your desktop application
Use this REST URI to get details for Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices on which a specific executable in your desktop application is blocking a Windows 10 or Windows 11 upgrade from running. You can use this URI only for desktop applications that you have added to the Windows Desktop Application program. This information is also available in the Application blocks report for desktop applications in Partner Center.
This URI is similar to Get upgrade blocks for your desktop application, but it returns device block info for a specific executable in your desktop application.
Prerequisites
To use this method, you need to first do the following:
- If you have not done so already, complete all the prerequisites for the Microsoft Store analytics API.
- Obtain an Azure AD access token to use in the request header for this method. After you obtain an access token, you have 60 minutes to use it before it expires. After the token expires, you can obtain a new one.
Request
Request syntax
| Method | Request URI |
|---|---|
| GET | https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/desktop/blockdetails |
Request header
| Header | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Authorization | string | Required. The Azure AD access token in the form Bearer <token>. |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| applicationId | string | The product ID of the desktop application for which you want to retrieve block data. To get the product ID of a desktop application, open any analytics report for your desktop application in Partner Center (such as the Blocks report) and retrieve the product ID from the URL. | Yes |
| fileName | string | The name of the blocked executable | |
| startDate | date | The start date in the date range of block data to retrieve. The default is 90 days prior to the current date. | No |
| endDate | date | The end date in the date range of block data to retrieve. The default is the current date. | No |
| top | int | The number of rows of data to return in the request. The maximum value and the default value if not specified is 10000. If there are more rows in the query, the response body includes a next link that you can use to request the next page of data. | No |
| skip | int | The number of rows to skip in the query. Use this parameter to page through large data sets. For example, top=10000 and skip=0 retrieves the first 10000 rows of data, top=10000 and skip=10000 retrieves the next 10000 rows of data, and so on. | No |
| filter | string | One or more statements that filter the rows in the response. Each statement contains a field name from the response body and value that are associated with the eq or ne operators, and statements can be combined using and or or. String values must be surrounded by single quotes in the filter parameter. You can specify the following fields from the response body:
|
No |
| orderby | string | A statement that orders the result data values for each block. The syntax is orderby=field [order],field [order],.... The field parameter can be one of the following fields from the response body:
The order parameter is optional, and can be asc or desc to specify ascending or descending order for each field. The default is asc. Here is an example orderby string: orderby=date,market |
No |
| groupby | string | A statement that applies data aggregation only to the specified fields. You can specify the following fields from the response body:
The returned data rows will contain the fields specified in the groupby parameter as well as the following:
|
No |
Request example
The following example demonstrates several requests for getting desktop application block data. Replace the applicationId value with the Product ID for your desktop application.
GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/desktop/blockdetails?applicationId=10238467886765136388&fileName=contoso.exe&startDate=2018-05-01&endDate=2018-06-07&skip=0 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>
GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/desktop/blockdetails?applicationId=10238467886765136388&fileName=contoso.exe&startDate=2018-05-01&endDate=2018-06-07&filter=market eq 'US' and deviceType eq 'PC' HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>
Response
Response body
| Value | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Value | array | An array of objects that contain aggregate block data. For more information about the data in each object, see the following table. |
| @nextLink | string | If there are additional pages of data, this string contains a URI that you can use to request the next page of data. For example, this value is returned if the top parameter of the request is set to 10000 but there are more than 10000 rows of block data for the query. |
| TotalCount | int | The total number of rows in the data result for the query. |
Elements in the Value array contain the following values.
| Value | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| applicationId | string | The product ID of the desktop application for which you retrieved block data. |
| date | string | The date associated with the block hits value. |
| productName | string | The display name of the desktop application as derived from the metadata of its associated executable(s). |
| fileName | string | The executable that was blocked. |
| applicationVersion | string | The version of the application executable that was blocked. |
| osVersion | string | One of the following strings that specifies the OS version on which the desktop application is currently running:
|
| osRelease | string | One of the following strings that specifies the OS release or flighting ring (as a subpopulation within OS version) on which the desktop application is currently running. For Windows 11: Version 2110 For Windows 10:
For Windows Server 1709:
For Windows Server 2016:
For Windows 8.1:
For Windows 7:
If the OS release or flighting ring is unknown, this field has the value Unknown. |
| market | string | The ISO 3166 country code of the market in which the desktop application is blocked. |
| deviceType | string | One of the following strings that specifies the type of device on which the desktop application is blocked:
|
| blockType | string | One of the following strings that specifies the type of block found on the device:
|
| architecture | string | The architecture of the device on which the block exists:
|
| targetOs | string | One of the following strings that specifies the Windows 10 or Windows 11 OS release on which the desktop application is blocked from running:
|
| deviceCount | number | The number of distinct devices that have blocks at the specified aggregation level. |
Response example
The following example demonstrates an example JSON response body for this request.
{
"Value": [
{
"applicationId": "10238467886765136388",
"date": "2018-06-03",
"productName": "Contoso Demo",
"fileName": "contosodemo.exe",
"applicationVersion": "2.2.2.0",
"osVersion": "Windows 8.1",
"osRelease": "Update 1",
"market": "ZA",
"deviceType": "All",
"blockType": "Runtime Notification",
"architecture": "X86",
"targetOs": "RS4",
"deviceCount": 120
}
],
"@nextLink": "desktop/blockdetails?applicationId=123456789&startDate=2018-01-01&endDate=2018-02-01&top=10000&skip=10000&groupby=applicationVersion,deviceType,osVersion,osRelease",
"TotalCount": 23012
}