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)
IdentityProvider.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
IdentityProvider.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
The work or school account needs to belong to at least the External Identity Provider AdministratorMicrosoft Entra role.
If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and identityProvider object in the response body. If unsuccessful, a 4xx error will be returned with specific details.
Example
The following example creates an identityProvider.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityProviders
Content-type: application/json
{
"name": "Login with Amazon",
"type": "Amazon",
"clientId": "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
"clientSecret": "000000000000"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new IdentityProvider
{
Name = "Login with Amazon",
Type = "Amazon",
ClientId = "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",
ClientSecret = "000000000000",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityProviders.PostAsync(requestBody);
// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc identity-providers create --body '{\
"name": "Login with Amazon",\
"type": "Amazon",\
"clientId": "56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8",\
"clientSecret": "000000000000"\
}\
'
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
IdentityProvider identityProvider = new IdentityProvider();
identityProvider.setName("Login with Amazon");
identityProvider.setType("Amazon");
identityProvider.setClientId("56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8");
identityProvider.setClientSecret("000000000000");
IdentityProvider result = graphClient.identityProviders().post(identityProvider);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityProvider;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new IdentityProvider();
$requestBody->setName('Login with Amazon');
$requestBody->setType('Amazon');
$requestBody->setClientId('56433757-cadd-4135-8431-2c9e3fd68ae8');
$requestBody->setClientSecret('000000000000');
$result = $graphServiceClient->identityProviders()->post($requestBody)->wait();
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