Microsoft Graph API get groups for user gives privileges error - azure

Question

Requirement:
We would like to query the groups of a user via Microsoft’s Graph API with the following request:
https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/api-reference/v1.0/api/user_getmembergroups
In our case the response looks like this:
{
"error": {
"code": "Authorization_RequestDenied",
"message": "Insufficient privileges to complete the operation.",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "a230a67e-8ef1-4f88-aa19-2c5b983c3de4",
"date": "2017-01-04T16:29:55"
}
}
}
(Note: the GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/ is working fine and returns the user data)
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
"id": "e23976a1-8bd9-4cca-a410-e095d2c2022d",
"businessPhones": [],
"displayName": "XXXX Vad",
"givenName": "XXXX",
"jobTitle": null,
"mail": null,
"mobilePhone": null,
"officeLocation": null,
"preferredLanguage": null,
"surname": "Vad",
"userPrincipalName": "XXXX.vad_outlook.com#EXT##XXXXvadoutlook.onmicrosoft.com"
}
Environment:
Application created on apps.dev.microsoft.com with the following parameters:
o Application Id: 412386c3-8fa3-4000-9039-748111407XXX
o Delegated Permissions: [ User.Read ]
This application is visible on ‘Azure Portal / AAD / Enterprise applications’ and the user with a group ‘BASIC’ is added to this application
An example of an access token obtained from AAD:
{
"aud": "https://graph.microsoft.com",
"iss": "https://sts.windows.net/b9df6a2d-9150-45f9-abf0-9c30f9e527c7/",
"iat": 1483548390,
"nbf": 1483548390,
"exp": 1483552290,
"acr": "1",
"aio": "AQABAAEAAADRNYRQ3dhRSrm-4K-adpCJhEVX2WEl4aboghl6AXaqOVcbaQPl1yYg1X1D2r4cNxBYmPvUiTKE9bB6wwpNSBKeD2OZXhrzdE3FPddCzbaTo84X8aSoKFaAt2vysYSv1HdChNXBPbfrVlA6YBuSwVwEIAA",
"altsecid": "1:live.com:00037FFEC5917401",
"amr": [
"pwd"
],
"app_displayname": "XXX test",
"appid": "412386c3-8fa3-4000-9039-748111407XXX",
"appidacr": "0",
"email": "XXXX.vad#outlook.com",
"family_name": "Vad",
"given_name": "XXXX",
"idp": "live.com",
"ipaddr": "165.225.80.95",
"name": "XXXX Vad",
"oid": "e23976a1-8bd9-4cca-a410-e095d2c20XXX",
"platf": "3",
"puid": "10037FFE9D51DXXX",
"scp": "User.Read",
"sub": "sCDfsIUynhm4GdgPIe8hYguyNbbc7IBjZeKLd1UDXXX",
"tid": "b9df6a2d-9150-45f9-abf0-9c30f9e52XXX",
"unique_name": "live.com#XXXX.vad#outlook.com",
"ver": "1.0"
}
What am I doing wrong or what’s missing? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You have to have admin consent right now to pull groups. They changed the required permissions a while back.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aadgraphteam/2015/03/18/update-to-graph-api-consent-permissions/