Update externalIdentitiesPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Update the settings of the tenant-wide externalIdentitiesPolicy object that controls whether external users can leave a Microsoft Entra tenant via self-service controls.

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) Policy.ReadWrite.ExternalIdentities Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Policy.ReadWrite.ExternalIdentities Not available.

HTTP request

PATCH /policies/externalIdentitiesPolicy

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 only the values for properties 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.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property Type Description
allowDeletedIdentitiesDataRemoval Boolean Reserved for future use.
allowExternalIdentitiesToLeave Boolean Defines whether external users can leave the guest tenant. If set to false, self-service controls are disabled, and the admin of the guest tenant must manually remove the external user from the guest tenant. When the external user leaves the tenant, their data in the guest tenant is first soft-deleted then permanently deleted in 30 days. Required.

Response

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

Examples

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/externalIdentitiesPolicy

{
  "allowExternalIdentitiesToLeave":false
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content