Assign appliesTo

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Assign an appManagementPolicy policy object to an application or service principal object. The application or service principal adopts this policy over the tenant-wide tenantAppManagementPolicy setting. Only one policy object can be assigned to an application or service principal.

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.Read.All and Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Application.Read.All and Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration Not available.

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. Application Administrator or Cloud Application Administrator are the least privileged roles supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref

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, provide a reference to a single policy object from the appManagementPolicies collection.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Assign an appManagementPolicy to an application object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to an application.

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

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content