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Copper Contributor

Jan 12, 2026

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Extract telephoneNumber/businessPhones in Graph via PowerShell

Hi all, I am trying to extract the telephoneNumber from the businessPhones attribute in Entra via a PowerShell script. I call Get-MgUser, list the properties including businessPhones. No matter w...

VasilMichev
Jan 12, 2026
Some properties are considered "sensitive", so you might need additional permissions/admin roles to work with them. See for example this document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/users?view=graph-rest-1.0#sensitive-actions

The other thing that comes to mind is to make sure to specifically request the property:

Get-MgUser -All -Property DisplayName,Id,businessPhones | select DisplayName,Id,businessPhones

VasilMichev

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Jan 12, 2026

Some properties are considered "sensitive", so you might need additional permissions/admin roles to work with them. See for example this document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/users?view=graph-rest-1.0#sensitive-actions

The other thing that comes to mind is to make sure to specifically request the property:

Get-MgUser -All -Property DisplayName,Id,businessPhones | select DisplayName,Id,businessPhones