How to Get the Azure AD Group ID by Name

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Hi, I need to list all members of a security or distribution group whose name is known.

the "Get Group" action requires the group id as input.

How do I retrieve the group id?

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abm abm 32,865 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @rodrigo_menende

Have a look at graph API method to get the group names and related details.

GET https://vssps.dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/graph/groups?api-version=5.1-preview.1

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/graph/groups/list?view=azure-devops-rest-5.1

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Thanks for your reply.

Will look on how to get this from a flow.
I was expecting a more end user friendly alternative, without coding. Couldn´t find it so far, looks like it´s not implemented in the connector.

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Hi @rodrigo_menende

There are no connectors available for this. You can execute the API using HTTP connector without coding.

Please have a look at these posts.

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/http-card-tutorial/

http://johnliu.net/blog/2018/10/microsoft-flow-http-trigger-request-trigger-and-you-probably-dont-want-to-use-it

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Hello,

I found one working solution (in my case).

There is just one condition :
You need to know at least one member of the security or distribution group.

1) Use Get-groups of a user (the known user as stated above). You then have a list of all the ID groups of the user

2) Next step is using Get-Group by using "value"; it gets all ID groups of the user one by one and gives the display name of each

3) Use the "Condition" to test if the group Display Name matches the targeted group

4) If condition is true, then you found the id group, congratulations !
For an unknow reason, it's never "True" for me, but it worked in another flow, with dynamics values...

But I hope you can understand the logic !

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