createInstance action

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important: Microsoft Graph APIs under the /beta version are subject to change; production use is not supported.

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

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

HTTP Request

POST /deviceManagement/templates/{deviceManagementTemplateId}/createInstance
POST /deviceManagement/templates/{deviceManagementTemplateId}/migratableTo/{deviceManagementTemplateId}/createInstance

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String
description	String
settingsDelta	deviceManagementSettingInstance collection
roleScopeTagIds	String collection

Response

If successful, this action returns a 200 OK response code and a deviceManagementIntent in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/deviceManagement/templates/{deviceManagementTemplateId}/createInstance

Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 398

{
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "settingsDelta": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceManagementSettingInstance",
      "id": "d68168e1-68e1-d681-e168-81d6e16881d6",
      "definitionId": "Definition Id value",
      "valueJson": "Value Json value"
    }
  ],
  "roleScopeTagIds": [
    "Role Scope Tag Ids 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/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 465

{
  "value": {
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceManagementIntent",
    "id": "f972c33e-c33e-f972-3ec3-72f93ec372f9",
    "displayName": "Display Name value",
    "description": "Description value",
    "isAssigned": true,
    "isMigratingToConfigurationPolicy": true,
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-01-01T00:00:35.1329464-08:00",
    "templateId": "Template Id value",
    "roleScopeTagIds": [
      "Role Scope Tag Ids value"
    ]
  }
}