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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Assign an appManagementPolicy policy object to an application or service principal object. The application or service principal adopts this policy over the tenant-wide tenantAppManagementPolicy setting. Only one policy object can be assigned to an application or service principal.

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)	Application.Read.All and Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Application.Read.All and Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration	Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

• Cloud Application Administrator
• Application Administrator

HTTP request

POST /applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref

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, provide a reference to a single policy object from the appManagementPolicies collection.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Assign an appManagementPolicy to an application object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to an application.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
 "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Applications["{application-id}"].AppManagementPolicies.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc applications app-management-policies ref post --application-id {application-id} --body '{\
 "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// 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.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").AppManagementPolicies().Ref().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.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}");
graphClient.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").appManagementPolicies().ref().post(referenceCreate);

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 appManagementPolicy = {
 '@odata.id':'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}'
};

await client.api('/applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref')
	.post(appManagementPolicy);

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\ReferenceCreate;


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

$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}');

$graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->appManagementPolicies()->ref()->post($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.Applications

$params = @{
	"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
}

New-MgApplicationAppManagementPolicyByRef -ApplicationId $applicationId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
	odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}",
)

await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').app_management_policies.ref.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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref

{
 "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
}

C#

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

Snippet not available

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 appManagementPolicy = {
 '@odata.id':'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}'
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref')
	.post(appManagementPolicy);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Snippet not available

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

Snippet not available

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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content