synchronizationJob: validateCredentials

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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.

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.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{id}/validateCredentials
Content-type: application/json

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

CLI

mgc service-principals synchronization jobs validate-credentials-by-id post --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --synchronization-job-id {synchronizationJob-id} --body '{\
    credentials: [ \
        { key: "UserName", value: "user@domain.com" },\
        { key: "Password", value: "password-value" }\
    ]\
}\
'

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 validateCredentials = {
    credentials: [ 
        { key: 'UserName', value: 'user@domain.com' },
        { key: 'Password', value: 'password-value' }
    ]
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{id}/validateCredentials')
	.post(validateCredentials);

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