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Iron Contributor

Apr 09, 2025

How to get a user P.O. Box from Active directory using Graph API

Inside our Active Directory, we have this value for the P.O Box:- now i want to get this value based on the user's email address using graph api, i tried those endpoint, but never able ...

MVP

Apr 09, 2025

Unfortunately, this is not one of the attributes that get synchronized. In fact, there is no matching attribute at all on the user resource, with the closes one being PostalCode. You will have to either create a custom attribute or populate this value as part of some other existing one. Once the data is stamped on some property on the user object, you can expose it by customizing the profile card: https://office365itpros.com/2023/11/15/user-profile-card-sdk/

johnjohn-Peter

Iron Contributor

Apr 09, 2025

VasilMichevok thanks for the reply, but what is the value i got from this endpoint:-

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/<useremail>/profile/

I got a PostOfficeBox , but it is null:-

"postOfficeBox": null,

VasilMichev
MVP
Apr 10, 2025
That's a company-level property, not user-one.
- johnjohn-Peter
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 10, 2025
  VasilMichevThanks again for the reply... so you mean this property :-
  
  is actually set once for the whole organization? or you mean the one been retrieved from the Graph api which have null value? Thanks