Get-MgUserManager - Find Users Manager

The Get-MgUserManager cmdlet in PowerShell retrieves the user or organizational contact assigned as the user’s manager.

To use the Get-MgUserManager cmdlet, you must first connect to your Microsoft 365 tenant using the Connect-MGraph cmdlet. Once you are connected, you can use the Get-MgUserManager cmdlet to get the manager of the specified user.

Connect-MgGraph -Scopes 'User.Read.All'

The syntax to get the manager details of the specified user is given below.

Get-MgUserManager
   -UserId <String>
   -InputObject <IUsersIdentity>
   [-ExpandProperty <String[]>]
   [-Property <String[]>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

In this article, we will discuss using the Get-MgUserManager cmdlet in PowerShell to get a user’s manager.

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1 How to Get a User’s Manager

2 Conclusion

3 Related Links

How to Get a User’s Manager

To get a user’s manager, run the following command.

# Get manager user ID
$userId = Get-MgUserManager -UserId 'cf634aac-d7d1-41a4-aad9-544c0bfda070'

# Get the manager user details
Get-MgUser -UserId $userId.Id

The Get-MgUserManager command uses the -UserId parameter to specify the user to retrieve the user or contact assigned as the user’s manager. It stores the user details such as ID in the $userId variable.

The Get-MgUser command uses the -UserId parameter to specify the $userId and retrieve the manager details for the specified user.

The output of the above command to return the manager of the specified user is given below.

Conclusion

I hope the above article on how to use the Get-MgUserManager cmdlet in PowerShell to get the user’s manager information is helpful to you.

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