ediscoveryCustodian: applyHold

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Start the process of applying hold on eDiscovery custodians. After the operation is created, you can get the status by retrieving the Location parameter from the response headers. The location provides a URL that will return an eDiscoveryHoldOperation object.

This API is supported 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) eDiscovery.Read.All, eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians/applyHold
POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians/{eDiscoveryCustodianId}/applyHold

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter Type Description
ids String collection The IDs of custodians to apply hold. Optional.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 202 Accepted response code.

Examples

Example 1: Apply hold to multiple custodians

Request

The following is an example of a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/b0073e4e-4184-41c6-9eb7-8c8cc3e2288b/custodians/applyHold
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "ids": [
    "7f697316-43ed-48e1-977f-261be050db93", "b26888b3-e1f5-47c5-bdf2-33d1b90cb2e8"
  ]
}

Response

The following is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Example 2: Apply hold to a single custodian

Request

The following is an example of a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/b0073e4e-4184-41c6-9eb7-8c8cc3e2288b/custodians/c25c3914f9f743ee9cbaa25377e0cec6/applyHold

Response

The following is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted