Create administrativeUnit

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to create a new administrativeUnit.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

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)	AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

To create an administrative unit, the calling principal must be assigned at least the Privileged Role Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

POST /directory/administrativeUnits

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an administrativeUnit object.

Because the administrativeUnit resource supports extensions, you can use the POST operation and add custom properties with your own data to the administrative unit while creating it.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an administrativeUnit object in the response body.

Example

Request

Here's an example of the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "Seattle District Technical Schools",
    "description": "Seattle district technical schools administration",
    "visibility": "HiddenMembership"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit
{
	DisplayName = "Seattle District Technical Schools",
	Description = "Seattle district technical schools administration",
	Visibility = "HiddenMembership",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.AdministrativeUnits.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc directory administrative-units create --body '{\
    "displayName": "Seattle District Technical Schools",\
    "description": "Seattle district technical schools administration",\
    "visibility": "HiddenMembership"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewAdministrativeUnit()
displayName := "Seattle District Technical Schools"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Seattle district technical schools administration"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
visibility := "HiddenMembership"
requestBody.SetVisibility(&visibility) 

administrativeUnits, err := graphClient.Directory().AdministrativeUnits().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AdministrativeUnit administrativeUnit = new AdministrativeUnit();
administrativeUnit.setDisplayName("Seattle District Technical Schools");
administrativeUnit.setDescription("Seattle district technical schools administration");
administrativeUnit.setVisibility("HiddenMembership");
AdministrativeUnit result = graphClient.directory().administrativeUnits().post(administrativeUnit);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const administrativeUnit = {
    displayName: 'Seattle District Technical Schools',
    description: 'Seattle district technical schools administration',
    visibility: 'HiddenMembership'
};

await client.api('/directory/administrativeUnits')
	.post(administrativeUnit);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AdministrativeUnit;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Seattle District Technical Schools');
$requestBody->setDescription('Seattle district technical schools administration');
$requestBody->setVisibility('HiddenMembership');

$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->administrativeUnits()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	displayName = "Seattle District Technical Schools"
	description = "Seattle district technical schools administration"
	visibility = "HiddenMembership"
}

New-MgDirectoryAdministrativeUnit -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.administrative_unit import AdministrativeUnit

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = AdministrativeUnit(
	display_name = "Seattle District Technical Schools",
	description = "Seattle district technical schools administration",
	visibility = "HiddenMembership",
)

result = await graph_client.directory.administrative_units.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an administrativeUnit object.

Response

Here's an example of the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#administrativeUnits/$entity",
    "id": "7a3dc8f3-b3a0-4164-9a99-ed36f3af039f",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "displayName": "Seattle District Technical Schools",
    "description": "Seattle district technical schools administration",
    "visibility": "HiddenMembership"
}

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