Create invitation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to create a new invitation. Invitation adds an external user to the organization.

When creating a new invitation, you have several options available:

  1. On invitation creation, Microsoft Graph can automatically send an invitation email directly to the invited user, or your app can use the inviteRedeemUrl returned in the response to craft your own invitation (through your communication mechanism of choice) to the invited user. If you decide to have Microsoft Graph send an invitation email automatically, you can specify the content and language of the email by using invitedUserMessageInfo.
  2. When the user is invited, a user entity (of userType Guest) is created and can be used to control access to resources. The invited user has to go through the redemption process to access any resources they have been invited to.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

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) User.Invite.All Directory.ReadWrite.All, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application User.Invite.All Directory.ReadWrite.All, User.ReadWrite.All

Important

Application permissions (app-only) do not work if B2B invitations are disabled on the tenant or if B2B invitations are restricted to administrators.

HTTP request

POST /invitations

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an invitation object.

The following table lists the parameters that are required when you create an invitation.

Parameter Type Description
invitedUserEmailAddress string The email address of the user you're inviting.
inviteRedirectUrl string The URL that the user will be redirected to after redemption.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/invitations
Content-type: application/json

{
  "invitedUserEmailAddress": "admin@fabrikam.com",
  "inviteRedirectUrl": "https://myapp.contoso.com"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#invitations/$entity",
    "id": "9071bfde-35e0-47d2-a582-d244ab1b4af6",
    "inviteRedeemUrl": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/redeem?rd=https%3a%2f%2finvitations.microsoft.com%2fredeem%2f%3ftenant%3d69997834-fa40-45da-xxxx-382c3bdc66c3%26user%3d9071bfde-35e0-47d2-a582-d244ab1b4af6%26ticket%3dwCFIFW%25252frzl2A%25252fpZFZk5fCLJprpDxtcjR8s%25252fo1QZA0yQ%25253d%26ver%3d2.0",
    "invitedUserDisplayName": null,
    "invitedUserType": "Guest",
    "invitedUserEmailAddress": "admin@fabrikam.com",
    "sendInvitationMessage": false,
    "resetRedemption": false,
    "inviteRedirectUrl": "https://myapp.contoso.com",
    "status": "PendingAcceptance",
    "invitedUserMessageInfo": {
        "messageLanguage": null,
        "customizedMessageBody": null,
        "ccRecipients": [
            {
                "emailAddress": {
                    "name": null,
                    "address": null
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "invitedUser": {
        "id": "cbb896f9-8306-49d0-b56b-b8e39cd28825"
    }
}