Update deviceCategory

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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Update the properties of a deviceCategory 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)	DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All, DeviceManagementManagedDevices.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All, DeviceManagementManagedDevices.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

PATCH /deviceManagement/deviceCategories/{deviceCategoryId}

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 deviceCategory object.

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

Property	Type	Description
id	String	Unique identifier for the device category. Read-only.
displayName	String	Display name for the device category.
description	String	Optional description for the device category.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated deviceCategory object in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/deviceManagement/deviceCategories/{deviceCategoryId}
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 135

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new DeviceCategory
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
	DisplayName = "Display Name value",
	Description = "Description value",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.DeviceManagement.DeviceCategories["{deviceCategory-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc device-management device-categories patch --device-category-id {deviceCategory-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",\
  "displayName": "Display Name value",\
  "description": "Description value"\
}\
'

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.NewDeviceCategory()
displayName := "Display Name value"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Description value"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
deviceCategories, err := graphClient.DeviceManagement().DeviceCategories().ByDeviceCategoryId("deviceCategory-id").Patch(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);

DeviceCategory deviceCategory = new DeviceCategory();
deviceCategory.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory");
deviceCategory.setDisplayName("Display Name value");
deviceCategory.setDescription("Description value");
DeviceCategory result = graphClient.deviceManagement().deviceCategories().byDeviceCategoryId("{deviceCategory-id}").patch(deviceCategory);

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 deviceCategory = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory',
  displayName: 'Display Name value',
  description: 'Description value'
};

await client.api('/deviceManagement/deviceCategories/{deviceCategoryId}')
	.update(deviceCategory);

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\DeviceCategory;


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

$requestBody = new DeviceCategory();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Display Name value');
$requestBody->setDescription('Description value');

$result = $graphServiceClient->deviceManagement()->deviceCategories()->byDeviceCategoryId('deviceCategory-id')->patch($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.DeviceManagement

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory"
	displayName = "Display Name value"
	description = "Description value"
}

Update-MgDeviceManagementDeviceCategory -DeviceCategoryId $deviceCategoryId -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.device_category import DeviceCategory
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DeviceCategory(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
	display_name = "Display Name value",
	description = "Description value",
)

result = await graph_client.device_management.device_categories.by_device_category_id('deviceCategory-id').patch(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/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 184

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.deviceCategory",
  "id": "f881b841-b841-f881-41b8-81f841b881f8",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value"
}