Create dataSource

Namespace: microsoft.graph.ediscovery

Important

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Add additional data sources to a source collection.

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/{sourceCollectionId}/additionalSources

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 dataSource object.

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

Note: Either email or site are required, not both.

Property Type Description
email string SMTP address of the mailbox. To get the email address of a group, use List groups or Get group. You can query by the name of the group using $filter; for example, https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups?$filter=displayName eq 'secret group'&$select=mail,id,displayName.
site string URL of the site; for example, https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HumanResources.

Response

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

Examples

Example 1: Add a user or group mailbox to the additional sources

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/compliance/ediscovery/cases/15d80234-8320-4f10-96d0-d98d53ffdfc9/sourceCollections/39b0bafd920e4360995c62e18a5e8a49/additionalsources
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.ediscovery.userSource",
    "email": "badguy@contoso.com"
}

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.ediscovery.dataSource",
  "id": "0fb67fc5-7fc5-0fb6-c57f-b60fc57fb60f",
  "displayName": "String",
  "createdDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
  "createdBy": {
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.identitySet"
  }
}

Example 2: Add a site or group site to additional sources

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/compliance/ediscovery/cases/15d80234-8320-4f10-96d0-d98d53ffdfc9/sourceCollections/39b0bafd920e4360995c62e18a5e8a49/additionalsources
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.ediscovery.siteSource",
    "site": {
        "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite"
    }
}

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/$metadata#compliance/ediscovery/cases('15d80234-8320-4f10-96d0-d98d53ffdfc9')/sourceCollections('39b0bafd920e4360995c62e18a5e8a49')/additionalSources/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.ediscovery.siteSource",
    "displayName": "Secret Site",
    "createdDateTime": "2021-08-11T23:35:02.33986Z",
    "id": "42393244-3838-4636-3437-453030334136",
    "createdBy": {
        "user": {
            "id": "798d8d23-2087-4e03-912e-c0d9db5cb5d2",
            "displayName": "Edisco Admin",
            "userPrincipalname": "ediscoadmin@contoso.com"
        }
    }
}