Create roleAssignment

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.

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)	DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All, DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All, 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.
scopeMembers	String collection	List of ids of role scope member security groups. These are IDs from Azure Active Directory.
scopeType	roleAssignmentScopeType	Specifies the type of scope for a Role Assignment. Default type 'ResourceScope' allows assignment of ResourceScopes. For 'AllDevices', 'AllLicensedUsers', and 'AllDevicesAndLicensedUsers', the ResourceScopes property should be left empty. Possible values are: resourceScope, allDevices, allLicensedUsers, allDevicesAndLicensedUsers.
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/beta/deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 277

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "scopeMembers": [
    "Scope Members value"
  ],
  "scopeType": "allDevices",
  "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: 326

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