Graph Api: Region is required when request with application permission

Siek, Stephan 21

Hi,

i do a simple POST Request to the Graph-Api and i get an error "Region is required when request with application permission."

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/search/query
BODY:
{
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": [
"driveItem"
],
"query": {
"queryString": "contoso"
}
}
]
}

Response:
SearchRequest Invalid (Region is required when request with application permission.)
Region is required when request with application permission.

Do someone know how to fix this?

Cristian SPIRIDON 4,476 Reputation points

2022-07-14T13:35:24.207+00:00

Hi,

Did you try with beta instead of v1.0?

Hope this helps!
Siek, Stephan 21 Reputation points

2022-07-14T13:39:48.767+00:00

yes beta made no difference :-(

Chris Sinclair 0

I have a very similar issue at present using powershell using application permissions. I'm guessing the issue persists?

I find I'm able to get past the initial "Region is required when request with application permission" by specifying the region but I've moved onto "Requested region not found. Only valid regions are GBR"..

$DriveItemSearchParams = @{
	requests = @(
		@{
			entityTypes = @(
				"driveItem"
			)
			query = @{
				queryString = "$ExplicitFileName"
				}
			fields = @(
				"parentReference"	
				"driveId"
				"contentclass"
				"title"
			)
			region =@(
				"GBR"
			)
		}
	)
}
#do the search
$SearchResults = Invoke-MgQuerySearch -Body $DriveItemSearchParams #-debug

Invoke-MgQuerySearch_Query: C:\scripts\GraphAPIBetaCertificateDownloadFileFromSharePoint.ps1:45:1
Line |
  45 |  $SearchResults = Invoke-MgQuerySearch -Body $DriveItemSearchParams #- …
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Requested region  not found. Only valid regions are GBR.

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CarlZhao-MSFT 42,031 Reputation points

2022-07-15T02:58:29.66+00:00

Hi @Siek, Stephan

Do not call the /search/query endpoint with application permissions, this endpoint does not yet support application permissions, only delegated permissions are currently supported.

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Siek, Stephan 21 Reputation points

2022-07-15T12:25:35.277+00:00

That is working. Thanks a lot.

Christoph Piock-Ellena 1 Reputation point

2022-10-24T09:02:58.3+00:00

@CarlZhao-MSFT do you have a example on how to do the delegation?
Maybe you can take a look at this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74154046/how-to-use-graph-api-sharepoint-search-from-console-app/74154740

Jacob H Page 0 Reputation points

2024-04-10T00:13:42.2666667+00:00

I find it baffling that you don't let an application list external items or even search. How are you as a external connection owner expected to remove search items if you can't even list the items you yourself stored? Is this being tracked as a feature request at all? Why can't we simply do a GET /external/connections/items/ or something like that?
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Sandeep Bari 26 Reputation points

2022-09-12T14:29:52.64+00:00

Hi,
I am facing same issue, and could not fix it just changing permission type from application to delegated in app registration.
In my case I have a designed a console app for custom Microsoft Graph connector using this article . And I want to delete all the items in external connection. I am using search api to query all items in external connection, and delete one by one.

Could you please provide some insights what changes you did to fix the issue.
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Christoph Piock-Ellena 1 Reputation point

2022-10-20T14:15:41.293+00:00

@Anonymous did you solve your issue? Some problem here

Sandeep Bari 26 Reputation points

2022-10-21T08:13:08.347+00:00

No, its still an issue. I changed solution, using cloud hybrid search now.

Christoph Piock-Ellena 1 Reputation point

2022-10-21T12:36:54.557+00:00

what did you mean with cloud hybrid search?

Darrel Miller 11 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-05-23T19:46:28.71+00:00

Could you delete the external connection to delete the items and then re-create it if you need it? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/externalconnectors-externalconnection-delete?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
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