Create sourceCollection

Namespace: microsoft.graph.ediscovery

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Create a new sourceCollection object.

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) eDiscovery.Read.All eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application eDiscovery.Read.All eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /compliance/ediscovery/cases/{caseId}/sourceCollections

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 sourceCollection object.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the sourceCollection.

Property Type Description
dataSourceScopes microsoft.graph.ediscovery.dataSourceScopes When specified, the collection will span across a service for an entire workload. Possible values are: none,allTenantMailboxes,allTenantSites,allCaseCustodians,allCaseNoncustodialDataSources. Note: Either one custodian or specifying dataSourceScope is required when creating a source collection.
displayName String The display name of the sourceCollection
custodianSources microsoft.graph.ediscovery.dataSource collection The custodian sources to include in this search. You can get the URL from from custodian siteSources, unifiedGroupSources, or userSources plus the ID of the source. Note: Either one custodian or specifying tenant source is required when creating a source collection.

Response

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

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/compliance/ediscovery/cases/47746044-fd0b-4a30-acfc-5272b691ba5b/sourceCollections
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "Quarterly Financials search",
    "contentQuery": "subject:'Quarterly Financials'",
    "custodianSources@odata.bind": [
        "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/compliance/ediscovery/cases/47746044-fd0b-4a30-acfc-5272b691ba5b/custodians/2192ca408ea2410eba3bec8ae873be6b/userSources/46384443-4137-3032-3437-363939433735"
    ]
}

Response

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#compliance/ediscovery/cases/47746044-fd0b-4a30-acfc-5272b691ba5b/sourceCollections/$entity",
    "description": null,
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-01-12T18:09:03.7378679Z",
    "contentQuery": "subject:'Quarterly Financials'",
    "dataSourceScopes": "none",
    "id": "1a9b4145d8f84e39bc45a7f68c5c5119",
    "displayName": "Quarterly Financials search",
    "createdDateTime": "2021-01-12T18:09:03.417009Z",
    "createdBy": {
        "user": {
            "id": "c1db6f13-332a-4d84-b111-914383ff9fc9",
            "displayName": "EDisco Admin",
            "userPrincipalname": "admin@contoso.com"
        }
    },
    "lastModifiedBy": {
        "user": {
            "id": "c1db6f13-332a-4d84-b111-914383ff9fc9",
            "displayName": "EDisco Admin",
            "userPrincipalname": "admin@contoso.com"
        }
    }
}