Create oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a protection policy for the OneDrive service in Microsoft 365. When the policy is created, its state is set to inactive. Users can also provide a list of protection units under the policy.

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)	BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /solutions/backupRestore/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

You can specify the following properties when creating a oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Name of the SharePoint Protection Policy. Required
driveProtectionUnits	Collection(driveProtectionUnit)	Collection of the driveProtectionUnit to be added to the oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy object in the response body.

For a list of possible error responses, see Backup Storage API error responses.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies

{
  "displayName": "OneDrive For Business Protection Policy",
  "driveProtectionUnits": [
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
    }
  ]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy
{
	DisplayName = "OneDrive For Business Protection Policy",
	DriveProtectionUnits = new List<DriveProtectionUnit>
	{
		new DriveProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019",
		},
		new DriveProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7",
		},
		new DriveProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Solutions.BackupRestore.OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc solutions backup-restore one-drive-for-business-protection-policies create

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 $v1.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewOneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy()
displayName := "OneDrive For Business Protection Policy"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 


driveProtectionUnit := graphmodels.NewDriveProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019"
driveProtectionUnit.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 
driveProtectionUnit1 := graphmodels.NewDriveProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
driveProtectionUnit1.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 
driveProtectionUnit2 := graphmodels.NewDriveProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
driveProtectionUnit2.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 

driveProtectionUnits := []graphmodels.DriveProtectionUnitable {
	driveProtectionUnit,
	driveProtectionUnit1,
	driveProtectionUnit2,
}
requestBody.SetDriveProtectionUnits(driveProtectionUnits)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies().Post(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);

OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy = new OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy();
oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy.setDisplayName("OneDrive For Business Protection Policy");
LinkedList<DriveProtectionUnit> driveProtectionUnits = new LinkedList<DriveProtectionUnit>();
DriveProtectionUnit driveProtectionUnit = new DriveProtectionUnit();
driveProtectionUnit.setDirectoryObjectId("cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019");
driveProtectionUnits.add(driveProtectionUnit);
DriveProtectionUnit driveProtectionUnit1 = new DriveProtectionUnit();
driveProtectionUnit1.setDirectoryObjectId("9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7");
driveProtectionUnits.add(driveProtectionUnit1);
DriveProtectionUnit driveProtectionUnit2 = new DriveProtectionUnit();
driveProtectionUnit2.setDirectoryObjectId("b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7");
driveProtectionUnits.add(driveProtectionUnit2);
oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy.setDriveProtectionUnits(driveProtectionUnits);
OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies().post(oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy);

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 oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy = {
  displayName: 'OneDrive For Business Protection Policy',
  driveProtectionUnits: [
    {
      directoryObjectId: 'cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019'
    },
    {
      directoryObjectId: '9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7'
    },
    {
      directoryObjectId: 'b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7'
    }
  ]
};

await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies')
	.post(oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy);

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\OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\DriveProtectionUnit;


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

$requestBody = new OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('OneDrive For Business Protection Policy');
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit1 = new DriveProtectionUnit();
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit1->setDirectoryObjectId('cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019');
$driveProtectionUnitsArray []= $driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit1;
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit2 = new DriveProtectionUnit();
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit2->setDirectoryObjectId('9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7');
$driveProtectionUnitsArray []= $driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit2;
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit3 = new DriveProtectionUnit();
$driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit3->setDirectoryObjectId('b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7');
$driveProtectionUnitsArray []= $driveProtectionUnitsDriveProtectionUnit3;
$requestBody->setDriveProtectionUnits($driveProtectionUnitsArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies()->post($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.BackupRestore

$params = @{
	displayName = "OneDrive For Business Protection Policy"
	driveProtectionUnits = @(
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019"
		}
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
		}
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
		}
	)
}

New-MgSolutionBackupRestoreOneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy -BodyParameter $params

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 import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.one_drive_for_business_protection_policy import OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy
from msgraph.generated.models.drive_protection_unit import DriveProtectionUnit
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = OneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicy(
	display_name = "OneDrive For Business Protection Policy",
	drive_protection_units = [
		DriveProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019",
		),
		DriveProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7",
		),
		DriveProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.one_drive_for_business_protection_policies.post(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.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies/b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7

{
  "@odata.context": "/solutions/backupRestore/$metadata#oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies/$entity",
  "id": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
  "displayName": "OneDrive Protection Policy",
  "status": "inactive",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "User1@contoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User1"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "User2@constoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User2"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "retentionSettings": [
    {
      "interval": "R/PT10M",
      "period": "P2W"
    },
    {
      "interval": "R/P1W",
      "period": "P1Y"
    }
  ]
}