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How i can know if an email address is for individual user or for a group (Office 365 or Mail Enabled security)

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I have a SharePoint list where i am string email addresses. and inside my workflow i need to check if the email is for individual user or for a group (mail enabled security group or Office 365 group).. is there a way to do this check?

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Expiscornovus 33,830 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @johnjohnPter,

You can for example query the siteusers and check the PrincipalType property. 1 should be a user, 4 should be a security group.

Alternatively, you should also be able to use a Get user profile (v2) action. This action should only return user profiles and shouldn't be able to find a profile for a group (in that case it should error with the message user not found).

Below are both examples in one flow.

_api/web/siteusers?$filter=Email eq '@{triggerBody()['email']}'&$select=PrincipalType

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@Expiscornovus thanks a lot worked well.

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