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.
4.01. Required only when updating the predefined values for a custom security attribute.
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 custom security attribute. Can be up to 128 characters long and include Unicode characters. Optional.
status
String
Specifies whether the custom security attribute is active or deactivated. Acceptable values are Available and Deprecated. Optional.
usePreDefinedValuesOnly
Boolean
Indicates whether only predefined values can be assigned to the custom security attribute. If set to false, free-form values are allowed. Can be changed from true to false, but cannot be changed from false to true. If type is set to Boolean, usePreDefinedValuesOnly cannot be set to true. Optional.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.
Examples
Example 1: Update a custom security attribute
The following example updates the description for a custom security attribute definition.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
{
Description = "Target completion date (YYYY/MM/DD)",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitions["{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewCustomSecurityAttributeDefinition()
description := "Target completion date (YYYY/MM/DD)"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
customSecurityAttributeDefinitions, err := graphClient.Directory().CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitions().ByCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId("customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition customSecurityAttributeDefinition = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition();
customSecurityAttributeDefinition.setDescription("Target completion date (YYYY/MM/DD)");
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition result = graphClient.directory().customSecurityAttributeDefinitions().byCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId("{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}").patch(customSecurityAttributeDefinition);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition();
$requestBody->setDescription('Target completion date (YYYY/MM/DD)');
$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->customSecurityAttributeDefinitions()->byCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId('customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.custom_security_attribute_definition import CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition(
description = "Target completion date (YYYY/MM/DD)",
)
result = await graph_client.directory.custom_security_attribute_definitions.by_custom_security_attribute_definition_id('customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id').patch(request_body)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
using Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Serialization;
var requestBody = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
{
AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{
"allowedValues@delta" , new List<object>
{
new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
{
{
"id", new UntypedString("Baker")
},
{
"isActive", new UntypedBoolean(false)
},
}),
new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
{
{
"id", new UntypedString("Skagit")
},
{
"isActive", new UntypedBoolean(true)
},
}),
}
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitions["{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody, (requestConfiguration) =>
{
requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("OData-Version", "4.01");
});
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition customSecurityAttributeDefinition = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
LinkedList<Object> allowedValuesDelta = new LinkedList<Object>();
property = new ();
property.setId("Baker");
property.setIsActive(false);
allowedValuesDelta.add(property);
property1 = new ();
property1.setId("Skagit");
property1.setIsActive(true);
allowedValuesDelta.add(property1);
additionalData.put("allowedValues@delta", allowedValuesDelta);
customSecurityAttributeDefinition.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition result = graphClient.directory().customSecurityAttributeDefinitions().byCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId("{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}").patch(customSecurityAttributeDefinition, requestConfiguration -> {
requestConfiguration.headers.add("OData-Version", "4.01");
});
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.directory.custom_security_attribute_definitions.item.custom_security_attribute_definition_item_request_builder import CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionItemRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
from msgraph.generated.models.custom_security_attribute_definition import CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition(
additional_data = {
"allowed_values@delta" : [
{
"id" : "Baker",
"is_active" : False,
},
{
"id" : "Skagit",
"is_active" : True,
},
],
}
)
request_configuration = RequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("OData-Version", "4.01")
result = await graph_client.directory.custom_security_attribute_definitions.by_custom_security_attribute_definition_id('customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id').patch(request_body, request_configuration = request_configuration)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
{
Status = "Deprecated",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitions["{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewCustomSecurityAttributeDefinition()
status := "Deprecated"
requestBody.SetStatus(&status)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
customSecurityAttributeDefinitions, err := graphClient.Directory().CustomSecurityAttributeDefinitions().ByCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId("customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition customSecurityAttributeDefinition = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition();
customSecurityAttributeDefinition.setStatus("Deprecated");
CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition result = graphClient.directory().customSecurityAttributeDefinitions().byCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId("{customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id}").patch(customSecurityAttributeDefinition);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition();
$requestBody->setStatus('Deprecated');
$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->customSecurityAttributeDefinitions()->byCustomSecurityAttributeDefinitionId('customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.custom_security_attribute_definition import CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CustomSecurityAttributeDefinition(
status = "Deprecated",
)
result = await graph_client.directory.custom_security_attribute_definitions.by_custom_security_attribute_definition_id('customSecurityAttributeDefinition-id').patch(request_body)