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List policies

Namespace: microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Get a list of the policy objects and their properties.

You can use this method with the following child object types: driverUpdatePolicy, featureUpdatePolicy, and qualityUpdatePolicy.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) WindowsUpdates.Read.All WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application WindowsUpdates.Read.All WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All

Important

For delegated access using work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role that grants the permissions required for this operation. Intune Administrator, or Windows Update Deployment Administrator are the least privileged roles supported for this operation.

HTTP request

To get all policy objects or only policies of a specific derived type:

GET /admin/windows/updates/policies
GET /admin/windows/updates/policies/microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.driverUpdatePolicy
GET /admin/windows/updates/policies/microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.featureUpdatePolicy
GET /admin/windows/updates/policies/microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.qualityUpdatePolicy

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select, $filter, $count, and $top OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.policy objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows how to get a list that contains each supported policy type.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/windows/updates/policies

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/windows/updates/$metadata#policies",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.driverUpdatePolicy",
      "approvalRules": [
        {
          "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.driverUpdateApprovalRule",
          "deferralInDays": 7
        }
      ],
      "createdDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:00:00Z",
      "description": "Driver and firmware updates for managed devices",
      "displayName": "Contoso driver policy",
      "id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.featureUpdatePolicy",
      "approvalRules": [],
      "createdDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:05:00Z",
      "description": "Administrator-approved Windows feature updates",
      "displayName": "Contoso feature policy",
      "id": "22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:05:00Z"
    },
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.qualityUpdatePolicy",
      "approvalRules": [
        {
          "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.qualityUpdateApprovalRule",
          "cadence": "monthly",
          "classification": "security",
          "deferralInDays": 2
        }
      ],
      "createdDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:10:00Z",
      "description": "Monthly quality updates for production devices",
      "displayName": "Contoso quality policy",
      "id": "33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-09-28T10:10:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
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