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)
Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
Device.ReadWrite.All
Directory.ReadWrite.All
In application-only scenarios and for non-Windows devices, that is, where the operatingSystem property is not Windows, the app can update only the extensionAttributes property.
The calling user must also be in at least the Intune AdministratorMicrosoft Entra role. A calling user in the Cloud Device Administrator role can only enable or disable devices and a user with the Windows 365 Administrator role can only update basic device properties.
HTTP request
You can address the device using either its id or deviceId.
In the request body, supply the values for the device properties that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.
Property
Type
Description
accountEnabled
Boolean
true if the account is enabled; otherwise, false. Only callers with at least the Cloud Device Administrator role can update this property.
operatingSystem
String
The type of operating system on the device.
operatingSystemVersion
String
The version of the operating system on the device
displayName
String
The display name for the device.
isCompliant
Boolean
true if the device complies with Mobile Device Management (MDM) policies; otherwise, false. This can only be updated by Intune for any device OS type or by an approved MDM app for Windows OS devices.
isManaged
Boolean
true if the device is managed by a Mobile Device Management (MDM) app; otherwise, false. This can only be updated by Intune for any device OS type or by an approved MDM app for Windows OS devices.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.
Examples
Example 1: Update the accountEnabled property of a device
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new Device
{
AccountEnabled = false,
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Devices["{device-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.NewDevice()
accountEnabled := false
requestBody.SetAccountEnabled(&accountEnabled)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
devices, err := graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-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);
Device device = new Device();
device.setAccountEnabled(false);
Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").patch(device);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Device;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new Device();
$requestBody->setAccountEnabled(false);
$result = $graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.device import Device
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Device(
account_enabled = False,
)
result = await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-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 Device
{
AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{
"extensionAttributes" , new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
{
{
"extensionAttribute1", new UntypedString("BYOD-Device")
},
})
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Devices["{device-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.NewDevice()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
extensionAttributes := graph.New()
extensionAttribute1 := "BYOD-Device"
extensionAttributes.SetExtensionAttribute1(&extensionAttribute1)
requestBody.SetExtensionAttributes(extensionAttributes)
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
devices, err := graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-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);
Device device = new Device();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
extensionAttributes = new ();
extensionAttributes.setExtensionAttribute1("BYOD-Device");
additionalData.put("extensionAttributes", extensionAttributes);
device.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").patch(device);
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.device import Device
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Device(
additional_data = {
"extension_attributes" : {
"extension_attribute1" : "BYOD-Device",
},
}
)
result = await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-id').patch(request_body)