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

For delegated scenarios, the calling user must also be assigned at least the Conditional Access Administrator or Security Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

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 that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or be 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.

HTTP

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."
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
	DisplayName = "FIDO2 only",
	Description = "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.",
};

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

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc policies authentication-strength-policies patch --authentication-strength-policy-id {authenticationStrengthPolicy-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",\
  "displayName": "FIDO2 only",\
  "description": "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewAuthenticationStrengthPolicy()
displayName := "FIDO2 only"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 

authenticationStrengthPolicies, err := graphClient.Policies().AuthenticationStrengthPolicies().ByAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId("authenticationStrengthPolicy-id").Patch(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);

AuthenticationStrengthPolicy authenticationStrengthPolicy = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy();
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy");
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setDisplayName("FIDO2 only");
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setDescription("An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.");
AuthenticationStrengthPolicy result = graphClient.policies().authenticationStrengthPolicies().byAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId("{authenticationStrengthPolicy-id}").patch(authenticationStrengthPolicy);

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

await client.api('/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/a34a4c89-c5bf-4c0b-927d-adc396bf1f19')
	.update(authenticationStrengthPolicy);

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\Models\AuthenticationStrengthPolicy;


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

$requestBody = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('FIDO2 only');
$requestBody->setDescription('An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.');

$result = $graphServiceClient->policies()->authenticationStrengthPolicies()->byAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId('authenticationStrengthPolicy-id')->patch($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.Identity.SignIns

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

Update-MgPolicyAuthenticationStrengthPolicy -AuthenticationStrengthPolicyId $authenticationStrengthPolicyId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.authentication_strength_policy import AuthenticationStrengthPolicy

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = AuthenticationStrengthPolicy(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
	display_name = "FIDO2 only",
	description = "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.",
)

result = await graph_client.policies.authentication_strength_policies.by_authentication_strength_policy_id('authenticationStrengthPolicy-id').patch(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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content