Update authenticationStrengthPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an authenticationStrengthPolicy object. You cannot update the allowed auth method combinations using this request. To do so, use the Update allowed combinations action.

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) Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod

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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Conditional Access administrator
  • Security Administrator

HTTP request

PATCH /policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/{authenticationStrengthPolicyId}

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
displayName String The display name of the policy to be created. Optional.
description String The description of the policy to be created. Optional.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/a34a4c89-c5bf-4c0b-927d-adc396bf1f19
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 239

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
  "displayName": "FIDO2 only",
  "description": "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content