Create governanceInvitation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new governanceInvitation to establish a governance relationship with a governed tenant. Invitations provide an alternative mechanism to governance requests for initiating relationships.

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)	TenantGovernance-Invitation.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

Important

For delegated access using work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role. Tenant Governance Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /directory/tenantGovernance/governanceInvitations

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 a JSON representation of the microsoft.graph.governanceInvitation object.

You can specify the following properties when creating a governanceInvitation.

Property	Type	Description
governingTenantId	String	The Microsoft Entra tenant ID of the governing tenant. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a microsoft.graph.governanceInvitation object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/tenantGovernance/governanceInvitations
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "governingTenantId": "aaaabbbb-0000-cccc-1111-dddd2222eeee"
}

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.type": "#microsoft.graph.governanceInvitation",
  "id": "aaaaaaaa-0000-1111-2222-bbbbbbbbbbbb",
  "governingTenantId": "aaaabbbb-0000-cccc-1111-dddd2222eeee",
  "governedTenantId": "bbbbcccc-1111-dddd-2222-eeee3333ffff",
  "governingTenantName": "Contoso, Inc",
  "governedTenantName": "Fabrikam",
  "createdDateTime": "2026-01-01T18:25:09.4212828Z",
  "expirationDateTime": "2026-01-31T18:25:09.4212828Z"
}