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)
AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
Important
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be a member user or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an administrativeUnit object.
Because the administrativeUnit resource supports extensions, you can use the POST operation and add custom properties with your own data to the administrative unit while creating it.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an administrativeUnit object in the response body.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits
Content-type: application/json
{
"displayName": "Seattle District Technical Schools",
"description": "Seattle district technical schools administration",
"visibility": "HiddenMembership"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit
{
DisplayName = "Seattle District Technical Schools",
Description = "Seattle district technical schools administration",
Visibility = "HiddenMembership",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.AdministrativeUnits.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewAdministrativeUnit()
displayName := "Seattle District Technical Schools"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
description := "Seattle district technical schools administration"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
visibility := "HiddenMembership"
requestBody.SetVisibility(&visibility)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
administrativeUnits, err := graphClient.Directory().AdministrativeUnits().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
AdministrativeUnit administrativeUnit = new AdministrativeUnit();
administrativeUnit.setDisplayName("Seattle District Technical Schools");
administrativeUnit.setDescription("Seattle district technical schools administration");
administrativeUnit.setVisibility("HiddenMembership");
AdministrativeUnit result = graphClient.directory().administrativeUnits().post(administrativeUnit);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AdministrativeUnit;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Seattle District Technical Schools');
$requestBody->setDescription('Seattle district technical schools administration');
$requestBody->setVisibility('HiddenMembership');
$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->administrativeUnits()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.administrative_unit import AdministrativeUnit
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AdministrativeUnit(
display_name = "Seattle District Technical Schools",
description = "Seattle district technical schools administration",
visibility = "HiddenMembership",
)
result = await graph_client.directory.administrative_units.post(request_body)