Create federatedIdentityCredential

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.

Create a new federatedIdentityCredential object for an application or an agentIdentityBlueprint.

By configuring a trust relationship between your Microsoft Entra application registration or agent identity blueprint and the identity provider for your compute platform, you can use tokens issued by that platform to authenticate with Microsoft identity platform and call APIs in the Microsoft ecosystem. Maximum of 20 objects can be added to an application or agent identity blueprint.

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.

Permissions for an application

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	Application.ReadWrite.All

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.

• A non-admin member user with default user permissions - for applications they own
• Application Developer - for applications they own
• Cloud Application Administrator
• Application Administrator

Permissions for an agentIdentityBlueprint

Permission type	Least privileged permission	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	AgentIdentityBlueprint.Create	AgentIdentityBlueprint.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	AgentIdentityBlueprint.Create	AgentIdentityBlueprint.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Important

The AgentIdentity* permissions are currently unavailable for consent through the API permissions experience on the Microsoft Entra admin center. To use these permissions, you can consent to them through Microsoft Graph API calls as described in Grant or revoke API permissions programmatically. See Permissions for managing agent identities for more information about these permissions.

When using delegated permissions, the authenticated 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.

• Agent ID Administrator.
• Agent ID Developer - Create agent identity blueprints. The principal with this role is assigned ownership of the blueprint they create and can perform write operations on that blueprint.

HTTP request

For an application:

• You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

POST /applications/{id}/federatedIdentityCredentials
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/federatedIdentityCredentials

For an agentIdentityBlueprint:

POST /applications/{id}/microsoft.graph.agentIdentityBlueprint/federatedIdentityCredentials

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 a JSON representation of the federatedIdentityCredential object.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the federatedIdentityCredential.

Property	Type	Description
audiences	String collection	Required. The audience that can appear in the external token. This field is mandatory and should be set to api://AzureADTokenExchange for Microsoft Entra ID. It says what Microsoft identity platform should accept in the aud claim in the incoming token. This value represents Microsoft Entra ID in your external identity provider and has no fixed value across identity providers - you may need to create a new application registration in your identity provider to serve as the audience of this token. This field can only accept a single value and has a limit of 600 characters.
claimsMatchingExpression	federatedIdentityExpression	Nullable. Defaults to null if not set. Enables the use of claims matching expressions against specified claims. If claimsMatchingExpression is defined, subject must be null. For the list of supported expression syntax and claims, visit the Flexible FIC reference.
issuer	String	Required. The URL of the external identity provider and must match the issuer claim of the external token being exchanged. The combination of the values of issuer and subject must be unique on the app. It has a limit of 600 characters.
name	String	Required. The unique identifier for the federated identity credential, which has a limit of 120 characters and must be URL friendly. It is immutable once created.
subject	String	Nullable. Defaults to null if not set. The identifier of the external software workload within the external identity provider. Like the audience value, it has no fixed format, as each identity provider uses their own - sometimes a GUID, sometimes a colon delimited identifier, sometimes arbitrary strings. The value here must match the sub claim within the token presented to Microsoft Entra ID. It has a limit of 600 characters. The combination of issuer and subject must be unique on the app. If subject is defined, claimsMatchingExpression must be null.

Response

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

Examples

Example 1: Create a federated identity credential for an application

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications/bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8/federatedIdentityCredentials/
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "name": "testing02",
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new FederatedIdentityCredential
{
	Name = "testing02",
	Issuer = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
	Subject = "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
	Audiences = new List<string>
	{
		"api://AzureADTokenExchange",
	},
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewFederatedIdentityCredential()
name := "testing02"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
issuer := "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0"
requestBody.SetIssuer(&issuer) 
subject := "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a"
requestBody.SetSubject(&subject) 
audiences := []string {
	"api://AzureADTokenExchange",
}
requestBody.SetAudiences(audiences)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
federatedIdentityCredentials, err := graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").FederatedIdentityCredentials().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

FederatedIdentityCredential federatedIdentityCredential = new FederatedIdentityCredential();
federatedIdentityCredential.setName("testing02");
federatedIdentityCredential.setIssuer("https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0");
federatedIdentityCredential.setSubject("a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a");
LinkedList<String> audiences = new LinkedList<String>();
audiences.add("api://AzureADTokenExchange");
federatedIdentityCredential.setAudiences(audiences);
FederatedIdentityCredential result = graphClient.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").federatedIdentityCredentials().post(federatedIdentityCredential);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 federatedIdentityCredential = {
    name: 'testing02',
    issuer: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0',
    subject: 'a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a',
    audiences: [
        'api://AzureADTokenExchange'
    ]
};

await client.api('/applications/bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8/federatedIdentityCredentials/')
	.version('beta')
	.post(federatedIdentityCredential);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\FederatedIdentityCredential;


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

$requestBody = new FederatedIdentityCredential();
$requestBody->setName('testing02');
$requestBody->setIssuer('https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0');
$requestBody->setSubject('a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a');
$requestBody->setAudiences(['api://AzureADTokenExchange', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->federatedIdentityCredentials()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Applications

$params = @{
	name = "testing02"
	issuer = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0"
	subject = "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a"
	audiences = @(
	"api://AzureADTokenExchange"
)
}

New-MgBetaApplicationFederatedIdentityCredential -ApplicationId $applicationId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.federated_identity_credential import FederatedIdentityCredential
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = FederatedIdentityCredential(
	name = "testing02",
	issuer = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
	subject = "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
	audiences = [
		"api://AzureADTokenExchange",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').federated_identity_credentials.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

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/$metadata#applications('bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8')/federatedIdentityCredentials/$entity",
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/directoryObjects/$/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Application('bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8')/federatedIdentityCredentials/d9b7bf1e-429e-4678-8132-9b00c9846cc4",
    "id": "d9b7bf1e-429e-4678-8132-9b00c9846cc4",
    "name": "testing02",
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "description": null,
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

Example 2: Create a federated identity credential for an agentIdentityBlueprint

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications/bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8/microsoft.graph.agentIdentityBlueprint/federatedIdentityCredentials/
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "name": "testing02",
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

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/$metadata#applications('bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8')/federatedIdentityCredentials/$entity",
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/directoryObjects/$/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Application('bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8')/federatedIdentityCredentials/d9b7bf1e-429e-4678-8132-9b00c9846cc4",
    "id": "d9b7bf1e-429e-4678-8132-9b00c9846cc4",
    "name": "testing02",
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "description": null,
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}