Update accessReviewInstance

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an accessReviewInstance object. Only the reviewers and fallbackReviewers properties can be updated but the scope property is also required in the request body. You can only add reviewers to the fallbackReviewers property but can't remove existing fallbackReviewers.

To update an accessReviewInstance, it's status must be InProgress.

Note

Updating an accessReviewInstance will update only that instance. The parent accessReviewScheduleDefinition and any future accessReviewInstance objects won't change. To make updates that apply to all future instances, update the parent accessReviewScheduleDefinition object.

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) AccessReview.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application AccessReview.ReadWrite.All Not available.

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.

Write access reviews of a group or app Write access reviews of a Microsoft Entra role
User Administrator
Identity Governance Administrator
Identity Governance Administrator
Privileged Role Administrator

HTTP request

PUT /identityGovernance/accessReviews/definitions/{accessReviewScheduleDefinitionId}/instances/{accessReviewInstanceId}

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 only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property Type Description
fallbackReviewers accessReviewReviewerScope collection This collection of reviewer scopes is used to define the list of fallback reviewers. These fallback reviewers will be notified to take action if no users are found from the list of reviewers specified. This could occur when either the group owner is specified as the reviewer but the group owner does not exist, or manager is specified as reviewer but a user's manager does not exist. Optional. Updatable.
reviewers accessReviewReviewerScope collection This collection of access review scopes is used to define who the reviewers are. For examples of options for assigning reviewers, see Assign reviewers to your access review definition using the Microsoft Graph API. Optional. Updatable.
scope accessReviewScope Created based on scope and instanceEnumerationScope at the accessReviewScheduleDefinition level. Defines the scope of users reviewed in a group. Read-only. Required but not updated.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated accessReviewInstance object in the response body.

Attempting to remove existing fallbackReviewers returns a 409 Conflict response code.

Examples

Request

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/accessReviews/definitions/5dcfcc88-da88-4252-8629-a0807b4b076d/instances/720b8ee0-cee4-42ac-b164-894c48703acc
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "scope": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.principalResourceMembershipsScope",
        "principalScopes": [
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/v1.0/users",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
            },
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/v1.0/groups",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
            }
        ],
        "resourceScopes": [
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/beta/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/9b895d92-2cd3-44c7-9d02-a6ac2d5ea5c3",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
            }
        ]
    },
    "reviewers": [
        {
            "query": "/users/1ed8ac56-4827-4733-8f80-86adc2e67db5",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
        }
    ],
    "fallbackReviewers": [
        {
            "query": "/users/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
        },
        {
            "query": "/users/1ed8ac56-4827-4733-8f80-86adc2e67db5",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph"
        }
    ]
}

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identityGovernance/accessReviews/definitions('5dcfcc88-da88-4252-8629-a0807b4b076d')/instances/$entity",
    "id": "720b8ee0-cee4-42ac-b164-894c48703acc",
    "startDateTime": "2021-12-14T11:15:43.207Z",
    "endDateTime": "2021-12-15T11:15:43.207Z",
    "status": "InProgress",
    "scope": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.principalResourceMembershipsScope",
        "principalScopes": [
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/v1.0/users",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
                "queryRoot": null
            },
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/v1.0/groups",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
                "queryRoot": null
            }
        ],
        "resourceScopes": [
            {
                "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.accessReviewQueryScope",
                "query": "/beta/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/9b895d92-2cd3-44c7-9d02-a6ac2d5ea5c3",
                "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
                "queryRoot": null
            }
        ]
    },
    "reviewers": [
        {
            "query": "/v1.0/users/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
            "queryRoot": null
        }
    ],
    "fallbackReviewers": [
        {
            "query": "/v1.0/users/4562bcc8-c436-4f95-b7c0-4f8ce89dca5e",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
            "queryRoot": null
        },
        {
            "query": "/v1.0/users/1ed8ac56-4827-4733-8f80-86adc2e67db5",
            "queryType": "MicrosoftGraph",
            "queryRoot": null
        }
    ]
}