Add owner

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add an owner to an application by posting to the owners collection.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy and Directory.Read.All, Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All

Note: Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy will not be sufficient to add another owner. Consent also to Application.ReadWrite.All.

HTTP request

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}/owners/$ref
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply the identifier of the directory object to be assigned as owner.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows the request.

HTTP

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

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

C#

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

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var requestBody = new Microsoft.Graph.Models.ReferenceCreate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
};
await graphClient.Applications["{application-id}"].Owners.Ref.PostAsync(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 applications owners ref post --application-id {application-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"\
}\
\
'

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

graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").Owners().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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

DirectoryObject directoryObject = new DirectoryObject();
directoryObject.id = "{id}";

graphClient.applications("{id}").owners().references()
	.buildRequest()
	.post(directoryObject);

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 directoryObject = {
    '@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}'
};

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

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

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

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

$graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->owners()->ref()->post($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/directoryObjects/{id}"
}

New-MgApplicationOwnerByRef -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

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)

request_body = ReferenceCreate(
	odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
)

await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').owners.ref.post(body = 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 is an example of the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content