Update administrativeUnit

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an administrativeUnit object.

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

To update an administrative unit, the calling principal must be assigned at least the Privileged Role Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

PATCH /directory/administrativeUnits/{id}

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 the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
description	string	Description for the administrative unit.
displayName	string	Display name for the administrative unit.

Since the administrativeUnit resource supports extensions, you can use the PATCH operation to add, update, or delete your own app-specific data in custom properties of an extension in an existing administrativeUnit instance.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Example

Request

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits/4d7ea995-bc0f-45c0-8c3e-132e93bf95f8
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit
{
	DisplayName = "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools",
};

// 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["{administrativeUnit-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc directory administrative-units patch --administrative-unit-id {administrativeUnit-id} --body '{\
    "displayName": "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools"\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewAdministrativeUnit()
displayName := "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

administrativeUnits, err := graphClient.Directory().AdministrativeUnits().ByAdministrativeUnitId("administrativeUnit-id").Patch(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);

AdministrativeUnit administrativeUnit = new AdministrativeUnit();
administrativeUnit.setDisplayName("Greater Seattle District Technical Schools");
AdministrativeUnit result = graphClient.directory().administrativeUnits().byAdministrativeUnitId("{administrativeUnit-id}").patch(administrativeUnit);

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 administrativeUnit = {
    displayName: 'Greater Seattle District Technical Schools'
};

await client.api('/directory/administrativeUnits/4d7ea995-bc0f-45c0-8c3e-132e93bf95f8')
	.update(administrativeUnit);

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\AdministrativeUnit;


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

$requestBody = new AdministrativeUnit();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Greater Seattle District Technical Schools');

$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->administrativeUnits()->byAdministrativeUnitId('administrativeUnit-id')->patch($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.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	displayName = "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools"
}

Update-MgDirectoryAdministrativeUnit -AdministrativeUnitId $administrativeUnitId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.administrative_unit import AdministrativeUnit

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = AdministrativeUnit(
	display_name = "Greater Seattle District Technical Schools",
)

result = await graph_client.directory.administrative_units.by_administrative_unit_id('administrativeUnit-id').patch(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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