Add owners

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add a user or service principal to a Microsoft 365 or security group's owners. The owners are a set of users or service principals who are allowed to modify the group object.

Important: If you update the group owners and you created a team for the group, it can take up to 2 hours for the owners to be synchronized with Microsoft Teams. Also, if you want the owner to be able to make changes in a team - for example, by creating a Planner plan - the owner also needs to be added as a group/team member.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /groups/{id}/owners/$ref

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation with the @odata.id of a user or servicePrincipal object to be added

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It does not return anything in the response body. This method returns a 400 Bad Request response code when the object is already a member of the group. This method returns a 404 Not Found response code when the object being added doesn't exist.

Example

Request

The following is an example of the request that adds a user as a group owner.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}"
}

C#

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var requestBody = new Microsoft.Graph.Models.ReferenceCreate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}",
};
await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Owners.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);

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 directoryObject = {
  '@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}'
};

await client.api('/groups/{id}/owners/$ref')
	.post(directoryObject);

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

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

DirectoryObject directoryObject = new DirectoryObject();
directoryObject.id = "{id}";

graphClient.groups("{id}").owners().references()
	.buildRequest()
	.post(directoryObject);

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

Go

//THE GO SDK IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId) 

graphClient.GroupsById("group-id").Owners().Ref().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.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

$params = @{
	"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}"
}

New-MgGroupOwnerByRef -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

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

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW FOR THE KIOTA BASED SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($requestAdapter);

$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->set@odataid('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}');



$graphServiceClient->groupsById('group-id')->owners()->ref()->post($requestBody);

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

In the request body, supply a JSON representation with the @odata.id of a user or servicePrincipal object to be added.

Response

The following is an example of the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

See also

• Add member to team
• Update member's role in team
• Remove member from team