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Create tenantGovernancePolicyTemplate

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new tenantGovernancePolicyTemplate that defines the configuration for establishing governance relationships, including role assignments and applications to provision.

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-PolicyTemplate.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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Tenant Governance Administrator
  • Tenant Governance Relationship Administrator

HTTP request

POST /directory/tenantGovernance/governancePolicyTemplates

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.tenantGovernancePolicyTemplate object.

You can specify the following properties when creating a tenantGovernancePolicyTemplate.

Property Type Description
displayName String The display name of the policy template. Required.
description String A description of the policy template. Required.
multiTenantApplicationsToProvision microsoft.graph.multiTenantApplicationsToProvision collection A collection of multitenant applications to be provisioned in the governed tenant when the governance relationship is established. Required.
delegatedAdministrationRoleAssignments microsoft.graph.delegatedAdministrationRoleAssignment collection A collection of delegated administration role assignments to be applied in the governed tenant when the governance relationship is established. Required.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

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

{
  "displayName": "Monitor Entra resource configurations",
  "description": "Grants Global reader and provisions a custom multi-tenant application to monitor conditional access policies",
  "multiTenantApplicationsToProvision": [
      {
          "appId": "66667777-aaaa-8888-bbbb-9999cccc0000",
          "objectId": "cccccccc-2222-3333-4444-dddddddddddd",
          "displayName": "Mega Monitor",
          "requiredResourceAccesses": [
              {
                "resourceAppId": "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
                "permissions": [
                {
                  "id": "633e0fce-8c58-4cfb-9495-12bbd5a24f7c",
                  "name": "Policy.Read.ConditionalAccess",
                  "type": "scope"
                },
                {
                  "id": "e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d",
                  "name": "User.Read",
                  "type": "scope"
                }
                ]
              }
          ]
      }
    ],
    "delegatedAdministrationRoleAssignments": [
      {
          "roleTemplates": [
              {
                  "id": "f2ef992c-3afb-46b9-b7cf-a126ee74c451",
                  "name": "Global Reader"
              }
          ],
          "group": {
              "id": "ffffffff-5555-6666-7777-aaaaaaaaaaaa"
          }
      }
    ]
  }

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.tenantGovernancePolicyTemplate",
  "id": "aaaaaaaa-0000-1111-2222-bbbbbbbbbbbb",
  "displayName": "Monitor Entra resource configurations",
  "description": "Grants Global reader and provisions a custom multi-tenant application to monitor conditional access policies",
  "createdDateTime": "2026-03-06T22:29:00.2110638Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-03-06T22:29:00.2110638Z",
  "version": "1.0",
  "multiTenantApplicationsToProvision": [
    {
        "appId": "66667777-aaaa-8888-bbbb-9999cccc0000",
        "objectId": "cccccccc-2222-3333-4444-dddddddddddd",
        "displayName": "Mega Monitor",
        "requiredResourceAccesses": [
            {
              "resourceAppId": "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
              "permissions": [
              {
                "id": "633e0fce-8c58-4cfb-9495-12bbd5a24f7c",
                "name": "Policy.Read.ConditionalAccess",
                "type": "scope"
              },
              {
                "id": "e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d",
                "name": "User.Read",
                "type": "scope"
              }
              ]
            }
        ]
    }
  ],
  "delegatedAdministrationRoleAssignments": [
    {
        "roleTemplates": [
            {
                "id": "f2ef992c-3afb-46b9-b7cf-a126ee74c451",
                "name": "Global Reader"
            }
        ],
        "group": {
            "id": "ffffffff-5555-6666-7777-aaaaaaaaaaaa"
        }
    }
  ]
}
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