Create deviceCategory

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important: APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

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

Create a new deviceCategory 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 most to least privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)
Onboarding	DeviceManagementManagedDevices.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application
Onboarding	DeviceManagementManagedDevices.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

POST /deviceManagement/deviceCategories

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 deviceCategory object.

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

Property	Type	Description
id	String	Unique identifier for the device category. Read-only.
Obboarding
description	String	Optional description for the device category.
displayName	String	Display name for the device category.

Response

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

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/deviceManagement/deviceCategories
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 135

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description 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: 184

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
  "id": "f881b841-b841-f881-41b8-81f841b881f8",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value"
}