Create namedLocation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Create a new namedLocation object. Named locations can be either ipNamedLocation or countryNamedLocation objects.

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they 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.

• Security Administrator
• Conditional Access Administrator

HTTP request

POST /identity/conditionalAccess/namedLocations

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 a JSON representation of an ipNamedLocation or countryNamedLocation object. You must specify the @odata.type of the derived type, that is, #microsoft.graph.ipNamedLocation for an ipNamedLocation object or #microsoft.graph.countryNamedLocation for a countryNamedLocation object.

The following table lists the properties that are required to create an ipNamedLocation object.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Human-readable name of the location. Required.
ipRanges	ipRange collection	List of IP address ranges in IPv4 CIDR format (e.g. 1.2.3.4/32) or any allowable IPv6 format from IETF RFC596. Required. The @odata.type of the ipRange is also required.

The following table lists the properties that are required to create an countryNamedLocation object.

Property	Type	Description
countriesAndRegions	String collection	List of countries and/or regions in two-letter format specified by ISO 3166-2. Required.
displayName	String	Human-readable name of the location. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Createdresponse code and a new ipNamedLocation or countryNamedLocation object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Create an ipNamedLocation

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identity/conditionalAccess/namedLocations
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.ipNamedLocation",
    "displayName": "Untrusted IP named location",
    "isTrusted": false,
    "ipRanges": [
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.iPv4CidrRange",
            "cidrAddress": "12.34.221.11/22"
        },
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.iPv6CidrRange",
            "cidrAddress": "2001:0:9d38:90d6:0:0:0:0/63"
        }
    ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#namedLocations/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.ipNamedLocation",
    "id": "0854951d-5fc0-4eb1-b392-9b2c9d7949c2",
    "displayName": "Untrusted IP named location",
    "modifiedDateTime": "2019-09-04T01:11:34.9387578Z",
    "createdDateTime": "2019-09-04T01:11:34.9387578Z",
    "isTrusted": false,
    "ipRanges": [
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.iPv4CidrRange",
            "cidrAddress": "12.34.221.11/22"
        },
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.iPv6CidrRange",
            "cidrAddress": "2001:0:9d38:90d6:0:0:0:0/63"
        }
    ]
}

Example 2: Create a countryNamedLocation

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identity/conditionalAccess/namedLocations
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.countryNamedLocation",
    "displayName": "Named location with unknown countries and regions",
    "countriesAndRegions": [
        "US",
        "GB"
    ],
    "includeUnknownCountriesAndRegions": true
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#namedLocations/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.countryNamedLocation",
    "id": "1c4427fd-0885-4a3d-8b23-09a899ffa959",
    "displayName": "Named location with unknown countries and regions",
    "modifiedDateTime": "2019-09-04T01:08:02.5249255Z",
    "createdDateTime": "2019-09-04T01:08:02.5249255Z",
    "countriesAndRegions": [
        "US",
        "GB"
    ],
    "includeUnknownCountriesAndRegions": true
}