Create policyApproval

Namespace: microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates

Important

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Create a new policyApproval object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
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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)	WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	WindowsUpdates.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Important

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. Intune Administrator, or Windows Update Deployment Administrator are the least privileged roles supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /admin/windows/updates/policies/{policyId}/approvals

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the policyApproval object.

You can specify the following properties when you create a policyApproval.

Property	Type	Description
catalogEntryId	String	The catalog entry ID to approve. Required.
status	microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.approvalStatus	The approval status. The possible values are: approved, suspended, unknownFutureValue. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.policyApproval object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/windows/updates/policies/ab3a53f0-f7aa-10b1-04d4-8680584cbbb6/approvals
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.policyApproval",
  "catalogEntryId": "1d8864c1-531f-4d5b-8225-8653ef4316d8",
  "status": "approved"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsUpdates.policyApproval",
  "catalogEntryId": "1d8864c1-531f-4d5b-8225-8653ef4316d8",
  "status": "approved",
  "id": "ab3a53f0-f7aa-10b1-04d4-8680584cbbb6",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-06-09T10:00:00Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-06-09T10:00:00Z"
}