Activate directoryRole

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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.

Activate a directory role. To read a directory role or update its members, it must first be activated in the tenant.

The Company Administrators and the implicit user directory roles (User, Guest User, and Restricted Guest User roles) are activated by default. To access and assign members to other directory roles, you must first activate it with its corresponding directory role template ID.

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)	RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /directoryRoles

Request headers

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

Request body

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

The following table shows the properties that are required when you activate a directory role.

Required parameter	Type	Description
roleTemplateId	string	The ID of the directoryRoleTemplate that the role is based on. This is the only property that may be specified in the request.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryRoles
Content-type: application/json

{
  "roleTemplateId": "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new DirectoryRole
{
	RoleTemplateId = "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1",
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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-beta directory-roles create --body '{\
  "roleTemplateId": "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewDirectoryRole()
roleTemplateId := "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
requestBody.SetRoleTemplateId(&roleTemplateId) 

directoryRoles, err := graphClient.DirectoryRoles().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

DirectoryRole directoryRole = new DirectoryRole();
directoryRole.setRoleTemplateId("fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1");
DirectoryRole result = graphClient.directoryRoles().post(directoryRole);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 directoryRole = {
  roleTemplateId: 'fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1'
};

await client.api('/directoryRoles')
	.version('beta')
	.post(directoryRole);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\DirectoryRole;


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

$requestBody = new DirectoryRole();
$requestBody->setRoleTemplateId('fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1');

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	roleTemplateId = "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
}

New-MgBetaDirectoryRole -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.directory_role import DirectoryRole

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = DirectoryRole(
	role_template_id = "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1",
)

result = await graph_client.directory_roles.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 directoryRole object.

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/$metadata#directoryRoles/$entity",
  "id": "76f84d30-2759-4c66-915d-65c6e4083fa0",
  "deletedDateTime": null,
  "description": "Can manage all aspects of users and groups, including resetting passwords for limited admins.",
  "displayName": "User Administrator",
  "roleTemplateId": "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
}