Add a scopedRoleMember

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Assign a Microsoft Entra role with administrative unit scope. For a list of roles that can be assigned with administrative unit scope, see Assign Microsoft Entra roles with administrative unit scope.

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) RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory 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.

HTTP request

POST /administrativeUnits/{id}/scopedRoleMembers

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of scopedRoleMembership object.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and scopedRoleMembership object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/administrativeUnits/{id}/scopedRoleMembers
Content-type: application/json

{
  "roleId": "roleId-value",
  "roleMemberInfo": {
    "id": "id-value"
  }
}

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of scopedRoleMembership object.

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/beta/$metadata#scopedRoleMemberships/$entity",
  "administrativeUnitId": "administrativeUnitId-value",
  "roleId": "roleId-value",
  "roleMemberInfo": {
    "id": "id-value",
    "displayName": "displayName-value",
    "userPrincipalName": "userPrincipalName-value"
  },
  "id": "id-value"
}