Update emailAuthenticationMethod

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11/01/2024

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Update a user's email address associated with an email Authentication Method object.

Self-service operations aren't supported.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

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	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Important

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

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.

PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/emailMethods/{emailMethods-id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the emailAuthenticationMethod object with the updated email address.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you update the emailAuthenticationMethod.

Property	Type	Description
emailAddress	String	Updated email address

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated emailAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod
{
	EmailAddress = "kim@contoso.com",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.EmailMethods["{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users authentication email-methods patch --user-id {user-id} --email-authentication-method-id {emailAuthenticationMethod-id} --body '{\
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"\
}\
'

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewEmailAuthenticationMethod()
emailAddress := "kim@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmailAddress(&emailAddress) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.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)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// 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);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const emailAuthenticationMethod = {
  emailAddress: 'kim@contoso.com'
};

await client.api('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f')
	.version('beta')
	.update(emailAuthenticationMethod);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\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();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	emailAddress = "kim@contoso.com"
}

Update-MgBetaUserAuthenticationEmailMethod -UserId $userId -EmailAuthenticationMethodId $emailAuthenticationMethodId -BodyParameter $params

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.email_authentication_method import EmailAuthenticationMethod
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.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)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f",
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"
}

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