Update group

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of a group 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

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)	Group.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Group.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

PATCH /groups/{id}

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply only the values for properties that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property	Type	Description
allowExternalSenders	Boolean	Default is false. Indicates whether people external to the organization can send messages to the group.
assignedLabels	assignedLabel collection	The list of sensitivity label pairs (label ID, label name) associated with a Microsoft 365 group.
autoSubscribeNewMembers	Boolean	Default is false. Indicates whether new members added to the group will be auto-subscribed to receive email notifications. autoSubscribeNewMembers can't be true when subscriptionEnabled is set to false on the group.
description	String	An optional description for the group.
displayName	String	The display name for the group. This property is required when a group is created and it cannot be cleared during updates.
mailNickname	String	The mail alias for the group, unique for Microsoft 365 groups in the organization. Maximum length is 64 characters. This property can contain only characters in the ASCII character set 0 - 127 except the following: @ () \ [] " ; : . <> , SPACE.
preferredDataLocation	String	The preferred data location for the Microsoft 365 group. To update this property, the calling user must be assigned one of the following Microsoft Entra roles: Global Administrator User Account Administrator Directory Writer Exchange Administrator SharePoint Administrator For more information about this property, see OneDrive Online Multi-Geo.
securityEnabled	Boolean	Specifies whether the group is a security group.
visibility	String	Specifies the visibility of a Microsoft 365 group. The possible values are: Private, Public, or empty (which is interpreted as Public).

Important

• To update the following properties, you must specify them in their own PATCH request, without including the other properties listed in the previous table: allowExternalSenders, autoSubscribeNewMembers, hideFromAddressLists, hideFromOutlookClients, isSubscribedByMail, unseenCount.
• Only a subset of the group API that pertains to core group administration and management supports application and delegated permissions. All other members of the group API, including updating autoSubscribeNewMembers, support only delegated permissions.
• The rules for updating mail-enabled security groups in Microsoft Exchange Server can be complex; to learn more, see Manage mail-enabled security groups in Exchange Server.
• Application permissions are not supported when updating assignedLabels.

Manage extensions and associated data

Use this API to manage the directory, schema, and open extensions and their data for groups, as follows:

• Add, update and store data in the extensions for an existing group.
• For directory and schema extensions, remove any stored data by setting the value of the custom extension property to null. For open extensions, use the Delete open extension API.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code—except a 200 OK response code when updating the following properties: allowExternalSenders, autoSubscribeNewMembers, hideFromAddressLists, hideFromOutlookClients, isSubscribedByMail, unseenCount.

Example

The following example shows how to update a group.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "description": "Library Assist",
  "displayName": "Library Assist",
  "groupTypes": [
    "Unified"
  ],
  "mailEnabled": true,
  "mailNickname": "library-help"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Group
{
	Description = "Library Assist",
	DisplayName = "Library Assist",
	GroupTypes = new List<string>
	{
		"Unified",
	},
	MailEnabled = true,
	MailNickname = "library-help",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].PatchAsync(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 groups patch --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "description": "Library Assist",\
  "displayName": "Library Assist",\
  "groupTypes": [\
    "Unified"\
  ],\
  "mailEnabled": true,\
  "mailNickname": "library-help"\
}\
'

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.NewGroup()
description := "Library Assist"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
displayName := "Library Assist"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
groupTypes := []string {
	"Unified",
}
requestBody.SetGroupTypes(groupTypes)
mailEnabled := true
requestBody.SetMailEnabled(&mailEnabled) 
mailNickname := "library-help"
requestBody.SetMailNickname(&mailNickname) 

groups, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Patch(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);

Group group = new Group();
group.setDescription("Library Assist");
group.setDisplayName("Library Assist");
LinkedList<String> groupTypes = new LinkedList<String>();
groupTypes.add("Unified");
group.setGroupTypes(groupTypes);
group.setMailEnabled(true);
group.setMailNickname("library-help");
Group result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").patch(group);

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 group = {
  description: 'Library Assist',
  displayName: 'Library Assist',
  groupTypes: [
    'Unified'
  ],
  mailEnabled: true,
  mailNickname: 'library-help'
};

await client.api('/groups/{id}')
	.update(group);

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\Group;


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

$requestBody = new Group();
$requestBody->setDescription('Library Assist');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Library Assist');
$requestBody->setGroupTypes(['Unified', 	]);
$requestBody->setMailEnabled(true);
$requestBody->setMailNickname('library-help');

$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->patch($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.Groups

$params = @{
	description = "Library Assist"
	displayName = "Library Assist"
	groupTypes = @(
	"Unified"
)
mailEnabled = $true
mailNickname = "library-help"
}

Update-MgGroup -GroupId $groupId -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.group import Group

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = Group(
	description = "Library Assist",
	display_name = "Library Assist",
	group_types = [
		"Unified",
	],
	mail_enabled = True,
	mail_nickname = "library-help",
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').patch(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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content