synchronizationJob: validateCredentials

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Validate that the credentials are valid in the tenant.

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) Synchronization.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy Synchronization.ReadWrite.All

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

  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Hybrid Identity Administrator - to configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

HTTP request

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{id}/validateCredentials

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
useSavedCredentials Boolean When true, the credentials parameter will be ignored and the previously saved credentials (if any) will be validated instead.
credentials synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair collection Credentials to validate. Ignored when the useSavedCredentials parameter is true.
templateId String Defines default settings for the provisioning configuration.

Response

If validation is successful, this method returns a 204, No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{id}/validateCredentials
Content-type: application/json

{
  "credentials": [
    {
      "key": "UserName",
      "value": "user@domain.com"
    },
    {
      "key": "Password",
      "value": "password-value"
    }
  ]
}
Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content