synchronization: acquireAccessToken

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Acquire an OAuth Access token to authorize the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to provision users into an application.

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

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Hybrid Identity Administrator - to configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

HTTP request

POST /applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
POST /servicePrincipals/{servicePrincipalsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken

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 JSON representation of the parameters.

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

Parameter Type Description
credentials synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair collection Represents a single secret value.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "credentials": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair"
    }
  ]
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content