applicationTemplate: instantiate

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add an instance of an application from the Microsoft Entra application gallery into your directory.

For non-gallery apps, use an application template with one of the following IDs to configure different single sign-on (SSO) modes like SAML SSO and password-based SSO.

• Global service: 8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621
• US government: 4602d0b4-76bb-404b-bca9-2652e1a39c6d
• China operated by 21Vianet: 5a532e38-1581-4918-9658-008dc27c1d68

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)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /applicationTemplates/{applicationTemplate-id}/instantiate

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
displayName	String	Custom name of the application

Response

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

Examples

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applicationTemplates/229946b9-a9fb-45b8-9531-efa47453ac9e/instantiate
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "Azure AD SAML Toolkit"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.ApplicationTemplates.Item.Instantiate;

var requestBody = new InstantiatePostRequestBody
{
	DisplayName = "Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
};

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

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

CLI

mgc application-templates instantiate post --application-template-id {applicationTemplate-id} --body '{\
    "displayName": "Azure AD SAML Toolkit"\
}\
'

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 $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphapplicationtemplates "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/applicationtemplates"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphapplicationtemplates.NewInstantiatePostRequestBody()
displayName := "Azure AD SAML Toolkit"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
instantiate, err := graphClient.ApplicationTemplates().ByApplicationTemplateId("applicationTemplate-id").Instantiate().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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.applicationtemplates.item.instantiate.InstantiatePostRequestBody instantiatePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.applicationtemplates.item.instantiate.InstantiatePostRequestBody();
instantiatePostRequestBody.setDisplayName("Azure AD SAML Toolkit");
var result = graphClient.applicationTemplates().byApplicationTemplateId("{applicationTemplate-id}").instantiate().post(instantiatePostRequestBody);

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 applicationServicePrincipal = {
    displayName: 'Azure AD SAML Toolkit'
};

await client.api('/applicationTemplates/229946b9-a9fb-45b8-9531-efa47453ac9e/instantiate')
	.post(applicationServicePrincipal);

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\ApplicationTemplates\Item\Instantiate\InstantiatePostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new InstantiatePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Azure AD SAML Toolkit');

$result = $graphServiceClient->applicationTemplates()->byApplicationTemplateId('applicationTemplate-id')->instantiate()->post($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 = @{
	displayName = "Azure AD SAML Toolkit"
}

Invoke-MgInstantiateApplicationTemplate -ApplicationTemplateId $applicationTemplateId -BodyParameter $params

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 import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.applicationtemplates.item.instantiate.instantiate_post_request_body import InstantiatePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = InstantiatePostRequestBody(
	display_name = "Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
)

result = await graph_client.application_templates.by_application_template_id('applicationTemplate-id').instantiate.post(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 example shows the 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/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.applicationServicePrincipal",
    "application": {
        "id": "20845737-a145-446f-aa3c-77d432903957",
        "appId": "3c653ec4-4e4c-4820-8127-49e3889cad99",
        "applicationTemplateId": "229946b9-a9fb-45b8-9531-efa47453ac9e",
        "createdDateTime": "2022-04-25T16:48:24Z",
        "deletedDateTime": null,
        "displayName": "Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
        "groupMembershipClaims": null,
        "identifierUris": [],
        "isFallbackPublicClient": false,
        "signInAudience": "AzureADMyOrg",
        "tags": [],
        "tokenEncryptionKeyId": null,
        "defaultRedirectUri": null,
        "optionalClaims": null,
        "addIns": [],
        "api": {
            "acceptMappedClaims": null,
            "knownClientApplications": [],
            "requestedAccessTokenVersion": null,
            "oauth2PermissionScopes": [
                {
                    "adminConsentDescription": "Allow the application to access Azure AD SAML Toolkit on behalf of the signed-in user.",
                    "adminConsentDisplayName": "Access Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
                    "id": "00e7ef81-4deb-41d7-9ee3-90d4eba1e991",
                    "isEnabled": true,
                    "type": "User",
                    "userConsentDescription": "Allow the application to access Azure AD SAML Toolkit on your behalf.",
                    "userConsentDisplayName": "Access Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
                    "value": "user_impersonation"
                }
            ],
            "preAuthorizedApplications": []
        },
        "appRoles": [
            {
                "allowedMemberTypes": [
                    "User"
                ],
                "displayName": "msiam_access",
                "id": "8b292bda-39b6-4b77-849e-887565235bb0",
                "isEnabled": true,
                "description": "msiam_access",
                "value": null,
                "origin": "Application"
            }
        ],
        "info": {
            "logoUrl": null,
            "marketingUrl": null,
            "privacyStatementUrl": null,
            "supportUrl": null,
            "termsOfServiceUrl": null
        },
        "keyCredentials": [],
        "parentalControlSettings": {
            "countriesBlockedForMinors": [],
            "legalAgeGroupRule": "Allow"
        },
        "passwordCredentials": [],
        "publicClient": {
            "redirectUris": []
        },
        "requiredResourceAccess": [],
        "verifiedPublisher": {
            "displayName": null,
            "verifiedPublisherId": null,
            "addedDateTime": null
        },
        "web": {
            "homePageUrl": "https://samltoolkit.azurewebsites.net/SAML/Consume?metadata=samltoolkit|ISV9.2|primary|z",
            "redirectUris": [
                "https://samltoolkit.azurewebsites.net/SAML/Consume"
            ]
        }
    },
    "servicePrincipal": {
        "id": "912729dd-97ae-4ceb-ade4-07bed3046486",
        "deletedDateTime": null,
        "accountEnabled": true,
        "appId": "3c653ec4-4e4c-4820-8127-49e3889cad99",
        "applicationTemplateId": "229946b9-a9fb-45b8-9531-efa47453ac9e",
        "appDisplayName": "Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
        "alternativeNames": [],
        "appOwnerOrganizationId": "29a4f813-9274-4e1b-858d-0afa98ae66d4",
        "displayName": "Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
        "appRoleAssignmentRequired": true,
        "loginUrl": null,
        "logoutUrl": null,
        "homepage": "https://samltoolkit.azurewebsites.net/SAML/Consume?metadata=samltoolkit|ISV9.2|primary|z",
        "notificationEmailAddresses": [],
        "preferredSingleSignOnMode": null,
        "preferredTokenSigningKeyThumbprint": null,
        "replyUrls": [
            "https://samltoolkit.azurewebsites.net/SAML/Consume"
        ],
        "servicePrincipalNames": [
            "3c653ec4-4e4c-4820-8127-49e3889cad99"
        ],
        "servicePrincipalType": "Application",
        "tags": [
            "WindowsAzureActiveDirectoryIntegratedApp"
        ],
        "tokenEncryptionKeyId": null,
        "samlSingleSignOnSettings": null,
        "verifiedPublisher": {
            "displayName": null,
            "verifiedPublisherId": null,
            "addedDateTime": null
        },
        "addIns": [],
        "appRoles": [
            {
                "allowedMemberTypes": [
                    "User"
                ],
                "displayName": "msiam_access",
                "id": "8b292bda-39b6-4b77-849e-887565235bb0",
                "isEnabled": true,
                "description": "msiam_access",
                "value": null,
                "origin": "Application"
            }
        ],
        "info": {
            "logoUrl": null,
            "marketingUrl": null,
            "privacyStatementUrl": null,
            "supportUrl": null,
            "termsOfServiceUrl": null
        },
        "keyCredentials": [],
        "oauth2PermissionScopes": [
            {
                "adminConsentDescription": "Allow the application to access Azure AD SAML Toolkit on behalf of the signed-in user.",
                "adminConsentDisplayName": "Access Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
                "id": "00e7ef81-4deb-41d7-9ee3-90d4eba1e991",
                "isEnabled": true,
                "type": "User",
                "userConsentDescription": "Allow the application to access Azure AD SAML Toolkit on your behalf.",
                "userConsentDisplayName": "Access Azure AD SAML Toolkit",
                "value": "user_impersonation"
            }
        ],
        "passwordCredentials": []
    }
}