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Update attributeSet

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an attributeSet object.

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) CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All Not available.

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. Attribute Definition Administrator is the only privileged role supported for this operation.

By default, Global Administrator and other administrator roles don't have permissions to read, define, or assign custom security attributes.

HTTP request

PATCH /directory/attributeSets/{attributeSetId}

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 only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property Type Description
description String Description of the attribute set. Can be up to 128 characters long and include Unicode characters. Optional.
maxAttributesPerSet Int32 Maximum number of custom security attributes that can be defined in this attribute set. Default value is null. If not specified, the administrator can add up to the maximum of 500 active attributes per tenant. Optional.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example updates the description and the maximum number of attributes for an attribute set named Engineering.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets/Engineering
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 119

{
    "description":"Attributes for engineering team",
    "maxAttributesPerSet":20
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content