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)
APIConnectors.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
APIConnectors.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
The work or school account needs to belong to at least the External ID User Flow AdministratorMicrosoft Entra role.
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/apiConnectors/{identityApiConnectorId}
Content-Type: application/json
{
"displayName": "New Test API",
"targetUrl": "https://otherapi.com/api/endpoint",
"authenticationConfiguration": {
"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.basicAuthentication",
"username":"<NEW_USERNAME>",
"password":"<NEW_PASSWORD>"
}
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new IdentityApiConnector
{
DisplayName = "New Test API",
TargetUrl = "https://otherapi.com/api/endpoint",
AuthenticationConfiguration = new BasicAuthentication
{
OdataType = "microsoft.graph.basicAuthentication",
Username = "<NEW_USERNAME>",
Password = "<NEW_PASSWORD>",
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Identity.ApiConnectors["{identityApiConnector-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc identity api-connectors patch --identity-api-connector-id {identityApiConnector-id} --body '{\
"displayName": "New Test API",\
"targetUrl": "https://otherapi.com/api/endpoint",\
"authenticationConfiguration": {\
"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.basicAuthentication",\
"username":"<NEW_USERNAME>", \
"password":"<NEW_PASSWORD>"\
}\
}\
'
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
IdentityApiConnector identityApiConnector = new IdentityApiConnector();
identityApiConnector.setDisplayName("New Test API");
identityApiConnector.setTargetUrl("https://otherapi.com/api/endpoint");
BasicAuthentication authenticationConfiguration = new BasicAuthentication();
authenticationConfiguration.setOdataType("microsoft.graph.basicAuthentication");
authenticationConfiguration.setUsername("<NEW_USERNAME>");
authenticationConfiguration.setPassword("<NEW_PASSWORD>");
identityApiConnector.setAuthenticationConfiguration(authenticationConfiguration);
IdentityApiConnector result = graphClient.identity().apiConnectors().byIdentityApiConnectorId("{identityApiConnector-id}").patch(identityApiConnector);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityApiConnector;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\BasicAuthentication;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new IdentityApiConnector();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('New Test API');
$requestBody->setTargetUrl('https://otherapi.com/api/endpoint');
$authenticationConfiguration = new BasicAuthentication();
$authenticationConfiguration->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.basicAuthentication');
$authenticationConfiguration->setUsername('<NEW_USERNAME>');
$authenticationConfiguration->setPassword('<NEW_PASSWORD>');
$requestBody->setAuthenticationConfiguration($authenticationConfiguration);
$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->apiConnectors()->byIdentityApiConnectorId('identityApiConnector-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
Example 2: Changing API connector to use client certificate authentication
This will overwrite any previous authenticationConfiguration settings. To change from Basic authentication to certificate authentication, use this. To add additional certificates to list of certificates, use the Upload client certificate method. When using this method, consequent "Get" or "List" operations of API connectors, authenticationConfiguration will be of type microsoft.graph.clientCertificateAuthentication.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new IdentityApiConnector
{
AuthenticationConfiguration = new Pkcs12Certificate
{
OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.pkcs12Certificate",
Pkcs12Value = "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA",
Password = "secret",
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Identity.ApiConnectors["{identityApiConnector-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
IdentityApiConnector identityApiConnector = new IdentityApiConnector();
Pkcs12Certificate authenticationConfiguration = new Pkcs12Certificate();
authenticationConfiguration.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.pkcs12Certificate");
authenticationConfiguration.setPkcs12Value("eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA");
authenticationConfiguration.setPassword("secret");
identityApiConnector.setAuthenticationConfiguration(authenticationConfiguration);
IdentityApiConnector result = graphClient.identity().apiConnectors().byIdentityApiConnectorId("{identityApiConnector-id}").patch(identityApiConnector);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityApiConnector;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Pkcs12Certificate;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new IdentityApiConnector();
$authenticationConfiguration = new Pkcs12Certificate();
$authenticationConfiguration->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.pkcs12Certificate');
$authenticationConfiguration->setPkcs12Value('eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA');
$authenticationConfiguration->setPassword('secret');
$requestBody->setAuthenticationConfiguration($authenticationConfiguration);
$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->apiConnectors()->byIdentityApiConnectorId('identityApiConnector-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
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