Namespace: microsoft.graph
Update the properties of an authenticationStrengthPolicy object. You cannot update the allowed auth method combinations using this request. To do so, use the Update allowed combinations action.
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.ConditionalAccess |
Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
| Application |
Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess |
Policy.ReadWrite.AuthenticationMethod |
Important
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must 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.
- Conditional Access administrator
- Security Administrator
HTTP request
PATCH /policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/{authenticationStrengthPolicyId}
Request body
In the request body, supply only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.
The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.
| Property |
Type |
Description |
| displayName |
String |
The display name of the policy to be created. Optional. |
| description |
String |
The description of the policy to be created. Optional. |
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/a34a4c89-c5bf-4c0b-927d-adc396bf1f19
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 239
{
"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
"displayName": "FIDO2 only",
"description": "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy
{
OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
DisplayName = "FIDO2 only",
Description = "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Policies.AuthenticationStrengthPolicies["{authenticationStrengthPolicy-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc policies authentication-strength-policies patch --authentication-strength-policy-id {authenticationStrengthPolicy-id} --body '{\
"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",\
"displayName": "FIDO2 only",\
"description": "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."\
}\
'
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// 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.NewAuthenticationStrengthPolicy()
displayName := "FIDO2 only"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
description := "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
authenticationStrengthPolicies, err := graphClient.Policies().AuthenticationStrengthPolicies().ByAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId("authenticationStrengthPolicy-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.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
AuthenticationStrengthPolicy authenticationStrengthPolicy = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy();
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy");
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setDisplayName("FIDO2 only");
authenticationStrengthPolicy.setDescription("An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.");
AuthenticationStrengthPolicy result = graphClient.policies().authenticationStrengthPolicies().byAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId("{authenticationStrengthPolicy-id}").patch(authenticationStrengthPolicy);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const authenticationStrengthPolicy = {
'@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy',
displayName: 'FIDO2 only',
description: 'An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.'
};
await client.api('/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/a34a4c89-c5bf-4c0b-927d-adc396bf1f19')
.update(authenticationStrengthPolicy);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AuthenticationStrengthPolicy;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new AuthenticationStrengthPolicy();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('FIDO2 only');
$requestBody->setDescription('An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.');
$result = $graphServiceClient->policies()->authenticationStrengthPolicies()->byAuthenticationStrengthPolicyId('authenticationStrengthPolicy-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns
$params = @{
"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy"
displayName = "FIDO2 only"
description = "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys."
}
Update-MgPolicyAuthenticationStrengthPolicy -AuthenticationStrengthPolicyId $authenticationStrengthPolicyId -BodyParameter $params
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.authentication_strength_policy import AuthenticationStrengthPolicy
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AuthenticationStrengthPolicy(
odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.authenticationStrengthPolicy",
display_name = "FIDO2 only",
description = "An auth strength allowing only FIDO2 security keys.",
)
result = await graph_client.policies.authentication_strength_policies.by_authentication_strength_policy_id('authenticationStrengthPolicy-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.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content