Update educationUser

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an educationUser 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)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	EduRoster.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

PATCH /education/me
PATCH /education/users/{id}

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
accountEnabled	Boolean	True if the account is enabled; otherwise, false. This property is required when a user is created. Supports $filter.
assignedLicenses	assignedLicense collection	The licenses that are assigned to the user. Not nullable.
assignedPlans	assignedPlan collection	The plans that are assigned to the user. Read-only. Not nullable.
businessPhones	String collection	The telephone numbers for the user. Note: Although this is a string collection, only one number can be set for this property.
createdBy	identitySet	Entity who created the user.
department	String	The name for the department in which the user works. Supports $filter.
displayName	String	The name displayed in the address book for the user. This is usually the combination of the user's first name, middle initial, and last name. This property is required when a user is created and it can't be cleared during updates. Supports $filter and $orderby.
externalSource	educationExternalSource	Where this user was created from. Possible values are: sis, manual.
externalSourceDetail	String	The name of the external source from which this resource was generated from.
givenName	String	The given name (first name) of the user. Supports $filter.
mail	String	The SMTP address for the user; for example, "jeff@contoso.com". Read-Only. Supports $filter.
mailingAddress	physicalAddress	Mail address of user.
mailNickname	String	The mail alias for the user. This property must be specified when a user is created. Supports $filter.
middleName	String	The middle name of user.
mobilePhone	String	The primary cellular telephone number for the user.
onPremisesInfo	educationOnPremisesInfo	Additional information used to associate the AAD user with its Active Directory counterpart.
passwordPolicies	String	Specifies password policies for the user. This value is an enumeration with one possible value being "DisableStrongPassword", which allows weaker passwords than the default policy to be specified. "DisablePasswordExpiration" can also be specified. The two can be specified together; for example: "DisablePasswordExpiration, DisableStrongPassword".
passwordProfile	passwordProfile	Specifies the password profile for the user. The profile contains the user's password. This property is required when a user is created. The password in the profile must satisfy minimum requirements as specified by the passwordPolicies property. By default, a strong password is required.
preferredLanguage	String	The preferred language for the user. Should follow ISO 639-1 Code; for example, "en-US".
primaryRole	educationUserRole	Default role for a user. The user's role might be different in an individual class. Possible values are: student, teacher, none, unknownFutureValue.
provisionedPlans	provisionedPlan collection	The plans that are provisioned for the user. Read-only. Not nullable.
residenceAddress	physicalAddress	Address where user lives.
student	educationStudent	If the primary role is student, this block contains student specific data.
surname	String	The user's surname (family name or last name). Supports $filter.
teacher	educationTeacher	If the primary role is teacher, this block contains teacher specific data.
usageLocation	String	A two-letter country code (ISO standard 3166). Required for users who will be assigned licenses due to a legal requirement to check for availability of services in countries or regions. Examples include: "US", "JP", and "GB". Not nullable. Supports $filter.
userPrincipalName	String	The user principal name (UPN) of the user.
userType	String	A string value that can be used to classify user types in your directory, such as "Member" and "Guest". Supports $filter.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and updated educationUser object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/education/users/{user-id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",
  "givenName": "Rogelio",
  "middleName": "Fernando",
  "surname": "Cazares",
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new EducationUser
{
	DisplayName = "Rogelio Cazares",
	GivenName = "Rogelio",
	MiddleName = "Fernando",
	Surname = "Cazares",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Education.Users["{educationUser-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc education users patch --education-user-id {educationUser-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",\
  "givenName": "Rogelio",\
  "middleName": "Fernando",\
  "surname": "Cazares",\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewEducationUser()
displayName := "Rogelio Cazares"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
givenName := "Rogelio"
requestBody.SetGivenName(&givenName) 
middleName := "Fernando"
requestBody.SetMiddleName(&middleName) 
surname := "Cazares"
requestBody.SetSurname(&surname) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
users, err := graphClient.Education().Users().ByEducationUserId("educationUser-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

EducationUser educationUser = new EducationUser();
educationUser.setDisplayName("Rogelio Cazares");
educationUser.setGivenName("Rogelio");
educationUser.setMiddleName("Fernando");
educationUser.setSurname("Cazares");
EducationUser result = graphClient.education().users().byEducationUserId("{educationUser-id}").patch(educationUser);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const educationUser = {
  displayName: 'Rogelio Cazares',
  givenName: 'Rogelio',
  middleName: 'Fernando',
  surname: 'Cazares',
};

await client.api('/education/users/{user-id}')
	.update(educationUser);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EducationUser;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new EducationUser();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Rogelio Cazares');
$requestBody->setGivenName('Rogelio');
$requestBody->setMiddleName('Fernando');
$requestBody->setSurname('Cazares');

$result = $graphServiceClient->education()->users()->byEducationUserId('educationUser-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Education

$params = @{
	displayName = "Rogelio Cazares"
	givenName = "Rogelio"
	middleName = "Fernando"
	surname = "Cazares"
}

Update-MgEducationUser -EducationUserId $educationUserId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.education_user import EducationUser
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EducationUser(
	display_name = "Rogelio Cazares",
	given_name = "Rogelio",
	middle_name = "Fernando",
	surname = "Cazares",
)

result = await graph_client.education.users.by_education_user_id('educationUser-id').patch(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

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

{
  "id": "13020",
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",
  "givenName": "Rogelio",
  "middleName": "Fernando",
  "surname": "Cazares",
  "mail": "rogelioC@contoso.com",
  "mobilePhone": "+1 (253) 555-0101",
  "createdBy": {
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Susana Rocha",
          "id": "14012",
        }
  },
  "externalSource": "sis",
  "mailingAddress": {
        "city": "Los Angeles",
        "countryOrRegion": "United States",
        "postalCode": "98055",
        "state": "CA",
        "street": "12345 Main St."
      },
  "primaryRole": "string",
  "residenceAddress": {
        "city": "Los Angeles",
        "countryOrRegion": "United States",
        "postalCode": "98055",
        "state": "CA",
        "street": "12345 Main St."
      },
  "student": {
      "primaryRole": "student",
      "externalId": "13005",
      "birthDate": "2001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    }
}