Add members

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add a member to a security or Microsoft 365 group through the members navigation property.

The following table shows the types of members that can be added to either security groups or Microsoft 365 groups.

Object type Member of security group Member of Microsoft 365 group
User Can be group member Can be group member
Security group Can be group member Cannot be group member
Microsoft 365 group Cannot be group member Cannot be group member
Device Can be group member Cannot be group member
Service principal Can be group member Cannot be group member
Organizational contact Can be group member Cannot be group member

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

The following table shows the least privileged permission that's required by each resource type when calling this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Supported resource Delegated (work or school account) Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Application
device GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and Device.ReadWrite.All Not supported. GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and Device.ReadWrite.All
group GroupMember.ReadWrite.All Not supported. GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
orgContact GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and OrgContact.Read.All Not supported. GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and OrgContact.Read.All
servicePrincipal GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and Application.ReadWrite.All Not supported. GroupMember.ReadWrite.All and Application.ReadWrite.All
user GroupMember.ReadWrite.All Not supported. GroupMember.ReadWrite.All

Important

To add members to a role-assignable group, the caller must also be assigned the RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory permission.

HTTP request

POST /groups/{group-id}/members/$ref

Request headers

Header Value
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 a directoryObject, user, group, or organizational contact object to be added.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body. This method returns a 400 Bad Request response code when the object is already a member of the group. This method returns a 404 Not Found response code when the object being added doesn't exist.

Examples

Example 1: Add a member to a group

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{group-id}/members/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the id of the directoryObject, user, or group object you want to add.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Add multiple members to a group in a single request

This example shows how to add multiple members to a group with OData bind support in a PATCH operation. Note that up to 20 members can be added in a single request. The POST operation is not supported. If an error condition exists in the request body, no members are added and the appropriate response code is returned.

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{group-id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "members@odata.bind": [
    "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
    "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
    "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
    ]
}

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the id of the directoryObject, user, or group object you want to add.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content