Create roleAssignment

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Note: The Microsoft Graph API for Intune requires an active Intune license for the tenant.

Create a new roleAssignment object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

POST /deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation for the roleAssignment object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create the roleAssignment.

Property Type Description
id String Key of the entity. This is read-only and automatically generated.
displayName String The display or friendly name of the role Assignment.
description String Description of the Role Assignment.
resourceScopes String collection List of ids of role scope member security groups. These are IDs from Azure Active Directory.

Response

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

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 193

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 242

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "id": "b3234d24-4d24-b323-244d-23b3244d23b3",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}