applicationTemplate: instantiate

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.

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
serviceManagementReference	String	The service tree ID for this service. Optional.

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. The request URL specifies 8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621 as the application template ID, which means that the request is instantiating a non-gallery app.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applicationTemplates/8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621/instantiate
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "testProperties"
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new InstantiatePostRequestBody
{
	DisplayName = "testProperties",
};

// 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);

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.

CLI

mgc-beta application-templates instantiate post --application-template-id {applicationTemplate-id} --body '{\
    "displayName": "testProperties"\
}\
'

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"
	  graphapplicationtemplates "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/applicationtemplates"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphapplicationtemplates.NewInstantiatePostRequestBody()
displayName := "testProperties"
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)

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);

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

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 applicationServicePrincipal = {
    displayName: 'testProperties'
};

await client.api('/applicationTemplates/8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621/instantiate')
	.version('beta')
	.post(applicationServicePrincipal);

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\ApplicationTemplates\Item\Instantiate\InstantiatePostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new InstantiatePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('testProperties');

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

Invoke-MgBetaInstantiateApplicationTemplate -ApplicationTemplateId $applicationTemplateId -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.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 = "testProperties",
)

result = await graph_client.application_templates.by_application_template_id('applicationTemplate-id').instantiate.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

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/beta/$metadata#microsoft.graph.applicationServicePrincipal",
    "application": {
        "objectId": "428fbcb1-35bc-471d-95f2-6cc339357cb5",
        "appId": "23a223ba-bb90-4949-8232-1bf479189e9b",
        "applicationTemplateId": "8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621",
        "displayName": "testProperties",
        "homepage": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com:444/applications/default.aspx?metadata=customappsso|ISV9.1|primary|z",
        "identifierUris": [],
        "publicClient": null,
        "replyUrls": [],
        "logoutUrl": null,
        "samlMetadataUrl": null,
        "errorUrl": null,
        "groupMembershipClaims": null,
        "availableToOtherTenants": false
    },
    "servicePrincipal": {
        "objectId": "7b358fa1-7d10-4a57-bd96-b7e63c2f9be5",
        "deletionTimestamp": null,
        "accountEnabled": true,
        "appId": "23a223ba-bb90-4949-8232-1bf479189e9b",
        "appDisplayName": "testProperties",
        "applicationTemplateId": "8adf8e6e-67b2-4cf2-a259-e3dc5476c621",
        "appOwnerTenantId": "29a4f813-9274-4e1b-858d-0afa98ae66d4",
        "appRoleAssignmentRequired": true,
        "displayName": "testProperties",
        "errorUrl": null,
        "loginUrl": null,
        "logoutUrl": null,
        "homepage": "https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com:444/applications/default.aspx?metadata=customappsso|ISV9.1|primary|z",
        "samlMetadataUrl": null,
        "microsoftFirstParty": null,
        "publisherName": "Contoso",
        "preferredSingleSignOnMode": null,
        "preferredTokenSigningKeyThumbprint": null,
        "preferredTokenSigningKeyEndDateTime": null,
        "replyUrls": [],
        "servicePrincipalNames": [
            "23a223ba-bb90-4949-8232-1bf479189e9b"
        ],
        "tags": [
            "WindowsAzureActiveDirectoryIntegratedApp",
            "WindowsAzureActiveDirectoryCustomSingleSignOnApplication"
        ],
        "notificationEmailAddresses": [],
        "samlSingleSignOnSettings": null,
        "keyCredentials": [],
        "passwordCredentials": []
    }
}