ExchangeMessageTrace.Read.All | Graph Permissions

Permission Details

Application Permission

Search the email message trace

Allows the app to search the email message trace, without a signed-in user.

Permission ID: 89b20d8a-76e2-4057-867b-9961f800b9a4

Delegated Permission

Search the email message trace

Allows the app to search the email message trace on behalf of the signed-in user.

Permission ID: b2e7d27e-14e7-41ad-bb15-a88ceb9c3e90

Properties

Microsoft Graph v1.0 exact-category-docs

Properties is shown from stable Microsoft Graph v1.0 metadata.

Property	Type	Description
`fromIP`	`String`Nullable	The source IP address. For incoming messages, this value is the public IP address of the SMTP email server that sent the message. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`id`	`String`	The unique identifier for the message trace. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`messageId`	`String`Nullable	The Message-ID header field of the message. The format of the Message-ID depends on the messaging server that sent the message. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`receivedDateTime`	`DateTimeOffset`	The date and time when the message was received by Exchange Online. The timestamp is in UTC format. , , Supports $filter (ge, le).
`recipientAddress`	`String`Nullable	The SMTP email address of the user that the message was addressed to. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`senderAddress`	`String`Nullable	The SMTP email address of the user the message was purportedly from. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`size`	`Int32`	The size of the message in bytes.
`status`	`exchangeMessageTraceStatus`	The delivery status of the message. The possible values are: gettingStatus, pending, failed, delivered, expanded, quarantined, filteredAsSpam, unknownFutureValue. , , Supports $filter (eq).
`subject`	`String`Nullable	The subject line of the message. , , Supports $filter (contains, startsWith, endsWith).
`toIP`	`String`Nullable	The destination IP address. For outgoing messages, this value is the public IP address in the resolved MX record for the destination domain. For incoming messages to Exchange Online, this value is blank. , , Supports $filter (eq).

JSON Representation

Microsoft Graph v1.0 exact-category-docs

JSON representation is shown from stable Microsoft Graph v1.0 metadata.

JSON representation

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.exchangeMessageTrace",
  "fromIP": "String",
  "id": "String (identifier)",
  "messageId": "String",
  "receivedDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
  "recipientAddress": "String",
  "senderAddress": "String",
  "size": "Int32",
  "status": "String",
  "subject": "String",
  "toIP": "String"
}

Relationships

Microsoft Graph v1.0 schema-derived

Relationships is shown from stable Microsoft Graph v1.0 metadata.

Relationship	Type	Description
`status`	`exchangeMessageTraceStatus`	Related status data exposed by this resource.

Graph Methods

Delegated access App-only access

Exact Microsoft Learn match

Microsoft Graph v1.0 endpoints are mapped directly from refreshed Microsoft Learn permissions tables.

Methods
GET `/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces`
GET `/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces/{exchangeMessageTraceId}/getDetailsByRecipient(recipientAddress='parameterValue')`

Exact Microsoft Learn match

Microsoft Graph beta endpoints are mapped directly from refreshed Microsoft Learn permissions tables.

Methods
GET `/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces`
GET `/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces/{exchangeMessageTraceId}/getDetailsByRecipient(recipientAddress='parameterValue')`

No Microsoft Learn PowerShell mapping available

Microsoft Graph PowerShell v1.0 commands are not available from refreshed Microsoft Learn PowerShell snippets for this permission.

No deterministic PowerShell command map is available for this permission.

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No Microsoft Learn PowerShell mapping available

Microsoft Graph PowerShell beta commands are not available from refreshed Microsoft Learn PowerShell snippets for this permission.

No deterministic PowerShell command map is available for this permission.

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Code Examples

C# / .NET SDK

List messageTraces

View official example on Microsoft Learn

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Admin.Exchange.Tracing.MessageTraces.GetAsync();

JavaScript

exchangeMessageTrace: getDetailsByRecipient

View official example on Microsoft Learn

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let getDetailsByRecipient = await client.api('/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces/7e3b2b2e-1b5e-4b17-80cc-2af6c1d9a3b1/getDetailsByRecipient(recipientAddress='[email protected]')')
	.get();

PowerShell

Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "ExchangeMessageTrace.Read.All"
Invoke-MgGraphRequest -Method GET -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/admin/exchange/tracing/messageTraces"

Python

List messageTraces

View official example on Microsoft Learn

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.admin.exchange.tracing.message_traces.get()

App Registration

1

Navigate to Azure Portal

Go to App registrations in Microsoft Entra admin center

2

Add API Permission

Select your app → API permissions → Add a permission → Microsoft Graph

3

Select Permission Type

Choose Application permissions or delegated permissions and search for ExchangeMessageTrace.Read.All

4

Grant Admin Consent

Application permissions always require admin consent.