Create user

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Note: The Microsoft Graph API for Intune requires an active Intune license for the tenant.

Create a new user object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

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)	DeviceManagementApps.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	DeviceManagementApps.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

POST /users

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation for the user object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create the user.

Property	Type	Description
id	String	The user identifier.

Response

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

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 46

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new User
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.user",
};

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

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

CLI

mgc users create --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user"\
}\
'

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.NewUser()

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

User user = new User();
user.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.user");
User result = graphClient.users().post(user);

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 user = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.user'
};

await client.api('/users')
	.post(user);

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\User;


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

$requestBody = new User();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.user');

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->post($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.Users

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.user"
}

New-MgUser -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.user import User
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = User(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.user",
)

result = await graph_client.users.post(request_body)

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

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 95

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
  "id": "d36894ae-94ae-d368-ae94-68d3ae9468d3"
}