Use this API to add an owner for the servicePrincipal. Service principal owners can be users, the service principal itself, or other service principals.
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)
Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Application
Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy and Directory.Read.All, Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All
HTTP request
You can address the service principal using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref
Request headers
Name
Description
Authorization
Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type
application/json. Required.
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of directoryObject object.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code and a directoryObject object in the response body.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
var requestBody = new Microsoft.Graph.Models.ReferenceCreate
{
OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
};
await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].Owners.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);
// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc service-principals owners ref post --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --body '{\
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"\
}\
'
<?php
// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}');
$graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->owners()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
)
await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').owners.ref.post(body = request_body)