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)
OrgContact.Read.All
Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
OrgContact.Read.All
Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
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.
Directory Readers - read basic properties
Global Reader
Directory Writers
Intune Administrator
User Administrator
HTTP request
GET /contacts
Optional query parameters
This method supports the $count, $expand, $filter, $orderby, $search, $select, and $topOData query parameters to help customize the response. Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.
eventual. This header and $count are required when using $search, or in specific usage of $filter. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.
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 orgContact objects in the response body.
Examples
Example 1: Get organizational contacts for an organization
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Contacts.GetAsync();
// 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://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
contacts, err := graphClient.Contacts().Get(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
OrgContactCollectionResponse result = graphClient.contacts().get();
# 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://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
result = await graph_client.contacts.get()
Example 2: Get only a count of organizational contacts
Request
The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $count is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.
Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/contacts/$count
ConsistencyLevel: eventual
Response
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain
893
Example 3: Use $filter and $top to get one organizational contact with a display name that starts with 'a' including a count of returned objects
Request
The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and the $count=true query string because the request has both the $orderby and $filter query parameters. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.
Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/contacts?$filter=startswith(displayName,'A')&$count=true&$top=1&$orderby=displayName
ConsistencyLevel: eventual
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Contacts.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Filter = "startswith(displayName,'A')";
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Top = 1;
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "displayName" };
requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
OrgContactCollectionResponse result = graphClient.contacts().get(requestConfiguration -> {
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.filter = "startswith(displayName,'A')";
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.top = 1;
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.orderby = new String []{"displayName"};
requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.contacts.contacts_request_builder import ContactsRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = ContactsRequestBuilder.ContactsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
filter = "startswith(displayName,'A')",
count = True,
top = 1,
orderby = ["displayName"],
)
request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")
result = await graph_client.contacts.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)
Example 4: Use $search to get organizational contacts with display names that contain the letters 'wa' including a count of returned objects
Request
The following example shows a request. This request requires the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual because $search and the $count=true query string is in the request. For more information about the use of ConsistencyLevel and $count, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.
Note: The $count and $search query parameters are currently not available in Azure AD B2C tenants.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/contacts?$search="displayName:wa"&$count=true
ConsistencyLevel: eventual
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Contacts.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Search = "\"displayName:wa\"";
requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
OrgContactCollectionResponse result = graphClient.contacts().get(requestConfiguration -> {
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.search = "\"displayName:wa\"";
requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.contacts.contacts_request_builder import ContactsRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = ContactsRequestBuilder.ContactsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
search = "\"displayName:wa\"",
count = True,
)
request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")
result = await graph_client.contacts.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)