Create a User

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08/24/2015

Applies To: Windows Azure Pack

Creates a user.

Request

Replace <ServiceMgmt> with your Service Management API endpoint address. . Replace <Port> with either 30005 for the tenant API or 30004 for the administrator API.

Method	Request URI	HTTP Version
POST	https://<ServiceMgmt>:<Port>/users	HTTP/1.1

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes required and optional request headers.

Request header	Description
Authorization: Bearer	Required. Authorization bearer token.
x-ms-principal-id	Required. The principal identifier.
x-ms-client-request-id	Optional. The client request identifier.
x-ms-client-session-id	Optional. The client session identifier.
x-ms-principal-liveid	Optional. The principal Live identifier.

Request Body

The following table describes the elements of the request body.

Element name	Description
User	The information used to create the user. For more information, see User (Common object).

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 201 (Created).

For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes (Windows Azure Pack Service Management).

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.

Response Body

The following table describes the key elements of the response body:

Element name	Description
User	The created User. For more information, see User (Common object).

Example

The following code example shows a Create User request.

POST https://<Computer>:30004/users HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <token>
x-ms-client-request-id: 1557497f-2f4c-45b1-a42d-416fff7641a2-2013-06-27 21:15:30Z
x-ms-client-session-id: 9ff600b4-0c8b-4110-9eab-4228ce92aa4d
x-ms-principal-id: <COMPUTER>\Administrator
Accept-Language: en-US
x-ms-principal-liveid: <COMPUTER>\Administrator
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Host: <Computer>:30004
Content-Length: 160
Expect: 100-continue

{
  "Name": "aaa@bbb.com",
  "Email": "aaa@bbb.com",
  "State": 1,
  "CreatedTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00",
  "SubscriptionCount": 0,
  "ActivationSyncState": 0,
  "LastErrorMessage": null
}

The following code example shows a Create User response.

{
  "Name": "aaa@bbb.com",
  "Email": "aaa@bbb.com",
  "State": 1,
  "CreatedTime": "2013-06-27T21:15:30.787",
  "SubscriptionCount": 0,
  "ActivationSyncState": 0,
  "LastErrorMessage": null
}

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