Unable/Error while getting preferredDataLocation in users/delta API

Question

With reference to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/user?view=graph-rest-1.0.

Expected or Desired Behavior

With reference to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/user?view=graph-rest-1.0. while making user/delta API call we should get preferredDataLocation for multi geo

Observed Behavior

Unable to get preferredDataLocation in users/delta API URL used : https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/delta?$select=id,mail,userType,userPrincipalName,accountEnabled,displayName,assignedPlans,preferredDataLocation

Image: Error In Postman Request

Response headers corresponding to your request(s):

Date - Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:25:2 request-id - 1d42128-c88b-4e1c-9fd8-c6e0f7519a37 SPRequestGuid - 1d8dec9e-c071-0000-3f4a-597faa9ba2ef

Steps to Reproduce

Make graph API call with graph token URL used : https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/delta?$select=id,mail,userType,userPrincipalName,accountEnabled,displayName,assignedPlans,preferredDataLocation

Answer 1

preferredDataLocation is not supported for https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/delta

You could use Microsoft Graph API Beta Version Use the below API URL

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$select=id,mail,userType,userPrincipalName,preferredDataLocation

See the screen shot :

Point To Remember:

1. If your DataLocation is not configured you have to configure it other then preferredDataLocation will be shown as Null
2. You can have a look here how could you configure DataLocation