Update servicePrincipal

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of servicePrincipal object.

Important

Using PATCH to set passwordCredential is not supported. Use the addPassword and removePassword methods to update the password or secret for a servicePrincipal.

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

PATCH /servicePrincipals/{id}
PATCH /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
accountEnabled	Boolean	true if the service principal account is enabled; otherwise, false.
addIns	addIn	Defines custom behavior that a consuming service can use to call an app in specific contexts. For example, applications that can render file streams may set the addIns property for its "FileHandler" functionality. This lets services like Microsoft 365 call the application in the context of a document the user is working on.
alternativeNames	String collection	Used to retrieve service principals by subscription, identify resource group and full resource IDs for managed identities.
appRoleAssignmentRequired	Boolean	Specifies whether an appRoleAssignment to a user or group is required before Microsoft Entra ID will issue a user or access token to the application. Not nullable.
appRoles	appRole collection	The application roles exposed by the associated application. For more information, see the appRoles property definition on the application resource. Not nullable.
customSecurityAttributes	customSecurityAttributeValue	An open complex type that holds the value of a custom security attribute that is assigned to a directory object. To update this property, the calling principal must be assigned the Attribute Assignment Administrator role and must be granted the CustomSecAttributeAssignment.ReadWrite.All permission.
displayName	String	The display name for the service principal.
homepage	String	Home page or landing page of the application.
keyCredentials	keyCredential collection	The collection of key credentials associated with the service principal. Not nullable.
logoutUrl	String	Specifies the URL that will be used by Microsoft's authorization service to log out a user using front-channel, back-channel or SAML logout protocols.
oauth2PermissionScopes	permissionScope collection	The OAuth 2.0 permission scopes exposed by the associated application. For more information, see the oauth2PermissionScopes property definition on the application resource. Not nullable.
preferredSingleSignOnMode	string	Specifies the single sign-on mode configured for this application. Microsoft Entra ID uses the preferred single sign-on mode to launch the application from Microsoft 365 or the My Apps portal. The supported values are password, saml, external, and oidc.
replyUrls	String collection	The URLs that user tokens are sent to for sign in with the associated application, or the redirect URIs that OAuth 2.0 authorization codes and access tokens are sent to for the associated application. Not nullable.
servicePrincipalNames	String collection	Contains the list of identifiersUris, copied over from the associated application. Additional values can be added to hybrid applications. These values can be used to identify the permissions exposed by this app within Microsoft Entra ID. For example, Client apps requesting permissions to this resource can use these URIs to specify needed permissions in the requiredResourceAccess property of their application manifest, or in the "API permissions" blade on the App registrations experience. Client apps can specify a resource URI which is based on the values of this property to acquire an access token, which is the URI returned in the “aud” claim. The any operator is required for filter expressions on multi-valued properties. Not nullable.
tags	String collection	Custom strings that can be used to categorize and identify the application. Not nullable.
tokenEncryptionKeyId	String	Specifies the keyId of a public key from the keyCredentials collection. When configured, Microsoft Entra ID issues tokens for this application encrypted using the key specified by this property. The application code that receives the encrypted token must use the matching private key to decrypt the token before it can be used for the signed-in user.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code and updated servicePrincipal object in the response body.

Example

Example 1: Update properties of the specified service principal

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "appRoleAssignmentRequired": true
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ServicePrincipal
{
	AppRoleAssignmentRequired = true,
};

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

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc service-principals patch --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --body '{\
  "appRoleAssignmentRequired": true\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewServicePrincipal()
appRoleAssignmentRequired := true
requestBody.SetAppRoleAssignmentRequired(&appRoleAssignmentRequired) 

servicePrincipals, err := graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-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);

ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal();
servicePrincipal.setAppRoleAssignmentRequired(true);
ServicePrincipal result = graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").patch(servicePrincipal);

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 servicePrincipal = {
  appRoleAssignmentRequired: true
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}')
	.update(servicePrincipal);

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\ServicePrincipal;


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

$requestBody = new ServicePrincipal();
$requestBody->setAppRoleAssignmentRequired(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->patch($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.Applications

$params = @{
	appRoleAssignmentRequired = $true
}

Update-MgServicePrincipal -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.service_principal import ServicePrincipal

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ServicePrincipal(
	app_role_assignment_required = True,
)

result = await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-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

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Assign a custom security attribute with a string value to a service principal

The following example shows how to assign a custom security attribute with a string value to a service principal.

• Attribute set: Engineering
• Attribute: ProjectDate
• Attribute data type: String
• Attribute value: "2022-10-01"

To assign custom security attributes, the calling principal must be assigned the Attribute Assignment Administrator role and must be granted the CustomSecAttributeAssignment.ReadWrite.All permission.

For other similar examples for users, see Examples: Assign, update, list, or remove custom security attribute assignments using the Microsoft Graph API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
    "customSecurityAttributes":
    {
        "Engineering":
        {
            "@odata.type":"#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue",
            "ProjectDate":"2022-10-01"
        }
    }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ServicePrincipal
{
	CustomSecurityAttributes = new CustomSecurityAttributeValue
	{
		AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
		{
			{
				"Engineering" , new 
				{
					OdataType = "#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue",
					ProjectDate = "2022-10-01",
				}
			},
		},
	},
};

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

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc service-principals patch --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --body '{\
    "customSecurityAttributes":\
    {\
        "Engineering":\
        {\
            "@odata.type":"#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue",\
            "ProjectDate":"2022-10-01"\
        }\
    }\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewServicePrincipal()
customSecurityAttributes := graphmodels.NewCustomSecurityAttributeValue()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
engineering := graphmodels.New()
projectDate := "2022-10-01"
engineering.SetProjectDate(&projectDate) 
	customSecurityAttributes.SetEngineering(engineering)
}
customSecurityAttributes.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
requestBody.SetCustomSecurityAttributes(customSecurityAttributes)

servicePrincipals, err := graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-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);

ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal();
CustomSecurityAttributeValue customSecurityAttributes = new CustomSecurityAttributeValue();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 engineering = new ();
engineering.setOdataType("#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue");
engineering.setProjectDate("2022-10-01");
additionalData.put("Engineering", engineering);
customSecurityAttributes.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
servicePrincipal.setCustomSecurityAttributes(customSecurityAttributes);
ServicePrincipal result = graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").patch(servicePrincipal);

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 servicePrincipal = {
    customSecurityAttributes: 
    {
        Engineering: 
        {
            '@odata.type':'#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue',
            ProjectDate: '2022-10-01'
        }
    }
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}')
	.update(servicePrincipal);

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\ServicePrincipal;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\CustomSecurityAttributeValue;


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

$requestBody = new ServicePrincipal();
$customSecurityAttributes = new CustomSecurityAttributeValue();
$additionalData = [
	'Engineering' => [
		'@odata.type' => '#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue',
		'projectDate' => '2022-10-01',
	],
];
$customSecurityAttributes->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$requestBody->setCustomSecurityAttributes($customSecurityAttributes);

$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->patch($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.Applications

$params = @{
	customSecurityAttributes = @{
		Engineering = @{
			"@odata.type" = "#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue"
			ProjectDate = "2022-10-01"
		}
	}
}

Update-MgServicePrincipal -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.service_principal import ServicePrincipal
from msgraph.generated.models.custom_security_attribute_value import CustomSecurityAttributeValue

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ServicePrincipal(
	custom_security_attributes = CustomSecurityAttributeValue(
		additional_data = {
				"engineering" : {
						"@odata_type" : "#Microsoft.DirectoryServices.CustomSecurityAttributeValue",
						"project_date" : "2022-10-01",
				},
		}
	),
)

result = await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-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

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content