Use this API to add an owner for the servicePrincipal. Service principal owners can be users, the service principal itself, or other service principals.
One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.
Permission type
Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)
Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Application
Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy and Directory.Read.All, Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All
HTTP request
You can address the service principal using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].Owners.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-id").Owners().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}");
graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").owners().ref().post(referenceCreate);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ReferenceCreate;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}');
$graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->owners()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();