Create printerShare

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new printerShare for the specified printer.

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)	PrinterShare.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /print/shares

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, supply a JSON representation of the printerShare object.

The following table shows the properties that can be provided when you create the printerShare.

Property	Type	Description	Required?
printer	microsoft.graph.printer	The printer that this printer share is related to. Use the printer@odata.bind syntax, as shown in the following example.	Yes
displayName	String	The name of the printer share that print clients should display. Maximum length allowed is 50 characters.	Yes
allowAllUsers	Boolean	If true, all users and groups will be granted access to this printer share. This supersedes the allow lists defined by the allowedUsers and allowedGroups navigation properties.	No

Response

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

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/shares
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "ShareName",
  "allowAllUsers": false,
  "printer@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new PrinterShare
{
	DisplayName = "ShareName",
	AllowAllUsers = false,
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"printer@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Print.Shares.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 print shares create --body '{\
  "displayName": "ShareName",\
  "allowAllUsers": false,\
  "printer@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}"\
}\
'

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"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewPrinterShare()
displayName := "ShareName"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
allowAllUsers := false
requestBody.SetAllowAllUsers(&allowAllUsers) 
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"odataBind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

shares, err := graphClient.Print().Shares().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);

PrinterShare printerShare = new PrinterShare();
printerShare.setDisplayName("ShareName");
printerShare.setAllowAllUsers(false);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("printer@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}");
printerShare.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
PrinterShare result = graphClient.print().shares().post(printerShare);

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 printerShare = {
  displayName: 'ShareName',
  allowAllUsers: false,
  'printer@odata.bind': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}'
};

await client.api('/print/shares')
	.post(printerShare);

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\PrinterShare;


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

$requestBody = new PrinterShare();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('ShareName');
$requestBody->setAllowAllUsers(false);
$additionalData = [
	'printer@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->escapedPrint()->shares()->post($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.Devices.CloudPrint

$params = @{
	displayName = "ShareName"
	allowAllUsers = $false
	"printer@odata.bind" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}"
}

New-MgPrintShare -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.models.printer_share import PrinterShare

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = PrinterShare(
	display_name = "ShareName",
	allow_all_users = False,
	additional_data = {
			"printer@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/{printerId}",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.print.shares.post(request_body)

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

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#print/shares/$entity",
  "id": "d837c17b-3296-4384-a053-828d56e10f50",
  "displayName": "ShareName",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-02-04T00:00:00.0000000Z",
  "isAcceptingJobs": true,
  "allowAllUsers": false,
  "status": {
    "state": "ready",
    "details": [],
    "description": ""
  }
}