Create custodians

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Create a new ediscoveryCustodian object. After the custodian object is created, you will need to create the custodian's userSource to reference their mailbox and OneDrive for Business site.

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

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians

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 ediscoveryCustodian object.

You can specify the following properties when you create an ediscoveryCustodian.

Property	Type	Description
email	String	Custodian's primary SMTP address. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an microsoft.graph.security.ediscoveryCustodian object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "email":"AdeleV@contoso.com",
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.Security;

var requestBody = new EdiscoveryCustodian
{
	Email = "AdeleV@contoso.com",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Cases.EdiscoveryCases["{ediscoveryCase-id}"].Custodians.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 security cases ediscovery-cases custodians create --ediscovery-case-id {ediscoveryCase-id} --body '{\
    "email":"AdeleV@contoso.com",\
}\
'

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewEdiscoveryCustodian()
email := "AdeleV@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmail(&email) 

custodians, err := graphClient.Security().Cases().EdiscoveryCases().ByEdiscoveryCaseId("ediscoveryCase-id").Custodians().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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCustodian ediscoveryCustodian = new com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCustodian();
ediscoveryCustodian.setEmail("AdeleV@contoso.com");
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCustodian result = graphClient.security().cases().ediscoveryCases().byEdiscoveryCaseId("{ediscoveryCase-id}").custodians().post(ediscoveryCustodian);

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 ediscoveryCustodian = {
    email: 'AdeleV@contoso.com',
};

await client.api('/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians')
	.post(ediscoveryCustodian);

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\EdiscoveryCustodian;


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

$requestBody = new EdiscoveryCustodian();
$requestBody->setEmail('AdeleV@contoso.com');

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->cases()->ediscoveryCases()->byEdiscoveryCaseId('ediscoveryCase-id')->custodians()->post($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.Security

$params = @{
	email = "AdeleV@contoso.com"
}

New-MgSecurityCaseEdiscoveryCaseCustodian -EdiscoveryCaseId $ediscoveryCaseId -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.ediscovery_custodian import EdiscoveryCustodian

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = EdiscoveryCustodian(
	email = "AdeleV@contoso.com",
)

result = await graph_client.security.cases.ediscovery_cases.by_ediscovery_case_id('ediscoveryCase-id').custodians.post(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.

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/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases('4c8f8f70-7785-4bd4-b296-c98376a2c5e1')/custodians/$entity",
     "status": "active",
     "holdStatus": "applied",
     "createdDateTime": "2022-05-23T00:58:19.0702426Z",
     "lastModifiedDateTime": "2022-05-23T00:58:19.0702436Z",
     "releasedDateTime": null,
     "id": "0053a61a3b6c42738f7606791716a22a",
     "displayName": "Adele Vance",
     "email": "AdeleV@contoso.com",
     "acknowledgedDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}