Submit a data policy operation request from a company administrator or an application to export an organizational user's data. This data includes the user's data stored in OneDrive and their activity reports. For more information about exporting data while complying with regulations, see Data Subject Requests and the GDPR and CCPA.
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)
User.Export.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
User.Export.All
Not available.
Note: The export can only be performed by a company administrator when delegated permissions are used.
In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.
Parameter
Type
Description
storageLocation
String
A shared access signature (SAS) URL to an Azure Storage account, to where data should be exported.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body. The response contains the following response headers.
Name
Description
Location
URL to check on the status of the request.
Retry-After
Time period in seconds. Request maker should wait this long after submitting a request to check for the status.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/exportPersonalData
Content-type: application/json
{
"storageLocation": "storageLocation-value"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Users.Item.ExportPersonalData;
var requestBody = new ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody
{
StorageLocation = "storageLocation-value",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].ExportPersonalData.PostAsync(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"
graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphusers.NewExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody()
storageLocation := "storageLocation-value"
requestBody.SetStorageLocation(&storageLocation)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").ExportPersonalData().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.users.item.exportpersonaldata.ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody exportPersonalDataPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.exportpersonaldata.ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody();
exportPersonalDataPostRequestBody.setStorageLocation("storageLocation-value");
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").exportPersonalData().post(exportPersonalDataPostRequestBody);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\ExportPersonalData\ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setStorageLocation('storageLocation-value');
$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->exportPersonalData()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.export_personal_data.export_personal_data_post_request_body import ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ExportPersonalDataPostRequestBody(
storage_location = "storageLocation-value",
)
await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').export_personal_data.post(request_body)