Upsert servicePrincipal

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new servicePrincipal object if it doesn't exist, or update the properties of an existing servicePrincipal object.

Important

Adding passwordCredential when creating servicePrincipals is not supported. Use the addPassword method to add passwords or secrets for a servicePrincipal.

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)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.All	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy, Directory.ReadWrite.All

For multitenant apps, the calling user must also be in one of the following Microsoft Entra roles:

• Global Administrator
• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator roles

For single-tenant apps where the calling user is a nonadmin user but is the owner of the backing application, the user must have the Application Developer role.

HTTP request

PATCH /servicePrincipals(appId='appId')

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.
Prefer	create-if-missing. Required for upsert behavior, otherwise the request is treated as an update operation.

Request body

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

Response

If successful, if a servicePrincipal with appId doesn't exist, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a new servicePrincipal object in the response body.

If a servicePrincipal with appId already exists, this method updates the servicePrincipal object and returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Example 1: Create a new servicePrincipal if it doesn't exist

The following example creates a servicePrincipal because a servicePrincipal with the specified appId value doesn't exist.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals(appId='65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12')
Content-type: application/json
Prefer: create-if-missing

{
  "displayName": "My app instance"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ServicePrincipal
{
	DisplayName = "My app instance",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.ServicePrincipalsWithAppId("{appId}").PatchAsync(requestBody, (requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("Prefer", "create-if-missing");
});

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc service-principals-with-app-id patch --app-id {app-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "My app instance"\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  graphserviceprincipals(appid='{appid}') "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/serviceprincipals(appid='{appid}')"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("Prefer", "create-if-missing")

configuration := &graphserviceprincipals(appid='{appid}').ServicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')RequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
}
requestBody := graphmodels.NewServicePrincipal()
displayName := "My app instance"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

appId := "{appId}"
servicePrincipals, err := graphClient.ServicePrincipalsWithAppId(&appId).Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, configuration)

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);

ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal();
servicePrincipal.setDisplayName("My app instance");
ServicePrincipal result = graphClient.servicePrincipalsWithAppId("{appId}").patch(servicePrincipal, requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("Prefer", "create-if-missing");
});

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\ServicePrincipals_with_app_id\ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ServicePrincipal;


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

$requestBody = new ServicePrincipal();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My app instance');
$requestConfiguration = new ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'Prefer' => 'create-if-missing',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;


$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipalsWithAppId('{appId}', )->patch($requestBody, $requestConfiguration)->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.Applications

$params = @{
	displayName = "My app instance"
}

Update-MgServicePrincipalByAppId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.service_principals_with_app_id.service_principals_with_app_id_request_builder import ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilder
from msgraph.generated.models.service_principal import ServicePrincipal

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ServicePrincipal(
	display_name = "My app instance",
)

request_configuration = ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilder.ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("Prefer", "create-if-missing")


result = await graph_client.service_principals_with_app_id("{appId}").patch(request_body, request_configuration = request_configuration)

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/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#servicePrincipals/$entity",
    "id": "59e617e5-e447-4adc-8b88-00af644d7c92",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "accountEnabled": true,
    "appDisplayName": "My App",
    "appId": "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12",
    "applicationTemplateId": null,
    "appOwnerOrganizationId": "1bc1c026-2f7b-48a5-98da-afa2fd8bc7bc",
    "appRoleAssignmentRequired": false,
    "displayName": "My app instance",
    "errorUrl": null,
    "homepage": null,
    "loginUrl": null,
    "logoutUrl": null,
    "notificationEmailAddresses": [],
    "preferredSingleSignOnMode": null,
    "preferredTokenSigningKeyEndDateTime": null,
    "preferredTokenSigningKeyThumbprint": null,
    "publisherName": "Contoso",
    "replyUrls": [],
    "samlMetadataUrl": null,
    "samlSingleSignOnSettings": null,
    "servicePrincipalNames": [
        "f1bd758f-4a1a-4b71-aa20-a248a22a8928"
    ],
    "signInAudience": "AzureADandPersonalMicrosoftAccount",
    "tags": [],
    "addIns": [],
    "api": {
        "resourceSpecificApplicationPermissions": []
    },
    "appRoles": [],
    "info": {
        "termsOfServiceUrl": null,
        "supportUrl": null,
        "privacyStatementUrl": null,
        "marketingUrl": null,
        "logoUrl": null
    },
    "keyCredentials": [],
    "publishedPermissionScopes": [],
    "passwordCredentials": []
}

Example 2: Update an existing servicePrincipal

The following example updates the servicePrincipal because a servicePrincipal with the specified appId value exists.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals(appId='65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12')
Content-type: application/json
Prefer: create-if-missing

{
  "displayName": "My app instance"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ServicePrincipal
{
	DisplayName = "My app instance",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.ServicePrincipalsWithAppId("{appId}").PatchAsync(requestBody, (requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("Prefer", "create-if-missing");
});

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc service-principals-with-app-id patch --app-id {app-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "My app instance"\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  graphserviceprincipals(appid='{appid}') "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/serviceprincipals(appid='{appid}')"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("Prefer", "create-if-missing")

configuration := &graphserviceprincipals(appid='{appid}').ServicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')RequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
}
requestBody := graphmodels.NewServicePrincipal()
displayName := "My app instance"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

appId := "{appId}"
servicePrincipals, err := graphClient.ServicePrincipalsWithAppId(&appId).Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, configuration)

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);

ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal();
servicePrincipal.setDisplayName("My app instance");
ServicePrincipal result = graphClient.servicePrincipalsWithAppId("{appId}").patch(servicePrincipal, requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("Prefer", "create-if-missing");
});

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\ServicePrincipals_with_app_id\ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ServicePrincipal;


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

$requestBody = new ServicePrincipal();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My app instance');
$requestConfiguration = new ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'Prefer' => 'create-if-missing',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;


$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipalsWithAppId('{appId}', )->patch($requestBody, $requestConfiguration)->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.Applications

$params = @{
	displayName = "My app instance"
}

Update-MgServicePrincipalByAppId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.service_principals_with_app_id.service_principals_with_app_id_request_builder import ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilder
from msgraph.generated.models.service_principal import ServicePrincipal

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ServicePrincipal(
	display_name = "My app instance",
)

request_configuration = ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilder.ServicePrincipalsWithAppIdRequestBuilderPatchRequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("Prefer", "create-if-missing")


result = await graph_client.service_principals_with_app_id("{appId}").patch(request_body, request_configuration = request_configuration)

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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content