identityApiConnector: uploadClientCertificate

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Upload a PKCS 12 format key (.pfx) to an API connector's authentication configuration. The input is a base-64 encoded value of the PKCS 12 certificate contents. This method returns an apiConnector.

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)	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 Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

POST /identity/apiconnectors/{id}/uploadClientCertificate

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, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Property	Type	Description
pkcs12Value	String	This is the field for sending the pfx content. The value should be a base-64 encoded version of the actual certificate content. Required.
password	String	This is the password for the pfx file. Required. If no password is used, must still provide a value of "".

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the apiConnector whose authenticationConfiguration contains the public information of the client certificate.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/apiconnectors/{id}/uploadClientCertificate
Content-type: application/json

{
    "pkcs12Value": "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA",
    "password": "<password>"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Identity.ApiConnectors.Item.UploadClientCertificate;

var requestBody = new UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody
{
	Pkcs12Value = "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA",
	Password = "<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}"].UploadClientCertificate.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 identity api-connectors upload-client-certificate post --identity-api-connector-id {identityApiConnector-id} --body '{\
    "pkcs12Value": "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA",\
    "password": "<password>"\
}\
'

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"
	  graphidentity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/identity"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphidentity.NewUploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody()
pkcs12Value := "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA"
requestBody.SetPkcs12Value(&pkcs12Value) 
password := "<password>"
requestBody.SetPassword(&password) 

uploadClientCertificate, err := graphClient.Identity().ApiConnectors().ByIdentityApiConnectorId("identityApiConnector-id").UploadClientCertificate().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);

com.microsoft.graph.identity.apiconnectors.item.uploadclientcertificate.UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody uploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.identity.apiconnectors.item.uploadclientcertificate.UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody();
uploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody.setPkcs12Value("eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA");
uploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody.setPassword("<password>");
var result = graphClient.identity().apiConnectors().byIdentityApiConnectorId("{identityApiConnector-id}").uploadClientCertificate().post(uploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody);

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 identityApiConnector = {
    pkcs12Value: 'eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA',
    password: '<password>'
};

await client.api('/identity/apiconnectors/{id}/uploadClientCertificate')
	.post(identityApiConnector);

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\UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setPkcs12Value('eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA');
$requestBody->setPassword('<password>');

$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->apiConnectors()->byIdentityApiConnectorId('identityApiConnector-id')->uploadClientCertificate()->post($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.SignIns

$params = @{
	pkcs12Value = "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA"
	password = "<password>"
}

Invoke-MgUploadIdentityApiConnectorClientCertificate -IdentityApiConnectorId $identityApiConnectorId -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.identity.apiconnectors.item.upload_client_certificate.upload_client_certificate_post_request_body import UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = UploadClientCertificatePostRequestBody(
	pkcs12_value = "eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ...kDJ04sJShkkgjL9Bm49plA",
	password = "<password>",
)

result = await graph_client.identity.api_connectors.by_identity_api_connector_id('identityApiConnector-id').upload_client_certificate.post(request_body)

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: authenticationConfiguration in the response is of type microsoft.graph.clientCertificateAuthentication because this represents the public information of uploaded certificates.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identity/apiConnectors/$entity",
    "id": "45715bb8-13f9-4bf6-927f-ef96c102d394",
    "displayName": "My API connector",
    "targetUrl": "https://api.contoso.com/endpoint",
    "authenticationConfiguration": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.clientCertificateAuthentication",
        "certificateList": [
            {
                "thumbprint": "0EB255CC895477798BA418B378255204304897AD",
                "notAfter": 1666350522,
                "notBefore": 1508670522,
                "isActive": true
            }
        ]
    }
}