deviceTemplate: createDeviceFromTemplate

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2025-01-07

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Create a new device from a deviceTemplate.

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)	Device.CreateFromOwnedTemplate	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

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:

Cloud Device Administrator
IoT Device Administrator
Users - owners of the device template object

Note: Users must be owner of the object.

HTTP request

POST /directory/templates/deviceTemplates/{deviceTemplateId}/createDeviceFromTemplate

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 a JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table lists the parameters that you can use when you call this action.

Parameter	Type	Description
accountEnabled	Boolean	`true` if the account is enabled; otherwise, `false`. The default value is `true`. A disabled device can't authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID. Optional.
alternativeNames	String collection	A collection of ARM resource IDs associated with the device, if any. Optional.
externalDeviceId	String	ID of the device in IoT registry. Must be unique within a tenant. Required.
externalSourceName	String	Identifies the source name of the device. Optional.
keyCredential	keyCredential	The key credential when you use self-signed certificates. Optional.
operatingSystemVersion	String	The operating system version of the device specified. Optional.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 200 OK response code and a device object in the response body.

For more information, see Microsoft Graph error responses and resource types.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/templates/deviceTemplates/2d62b12a-0163-457d-9796-9602e9807e1/createDeviceFromTemplate
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "externalDeviceId": "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183",
  "operatingSystemVersion": "Ubuntu 18.04",
  "externalSourceName": "unknown",
  "accountEnabled": false,
  "alternativeNames": [
    "/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1"
  ]
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Templates.DeviceTemplates.Item.CreateDeviceFromTemplate;

var requestBody = new CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody
{
	ExternalDeviceId = "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183",
	OperatingSystemVersion = "Ubuntu 18.04",
	ExternalSourceName = "unknown",
	AccountEnabled = false,
	AlternativeNames = new List<string>
	{
		"/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Templates.DeviceTemplates["{deviceTemplate-id}"].CreateDeviceFromTemplate.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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



mgc-beta templates device-templates create-device-from-template post --device-template-id {deviceTemplate-id} --body '{\
  "externalDeviceId": "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183",\
  "operatingSystemVersion": "Ubuntu 18.04",\
  "externalSourceName": "unknown",\
  "accountEnabled": false,\
  "alternativeNames": [\
    "/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1"\
  ]\
}\
'

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphtemplates "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/templates"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphtemplates.NewCreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody()
externalDeviceId := "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183"
requestBody.SetExternalDeviceId(&externalDeviceId) 
operatingSystemVersion := "Ubuntu 18.04"
requestBody.SetOperatingSystemVersion(&operatingSystemVersion) 
externalSourceName := "unknown"
requestBody.SetExternalSourceName(&externalSourceName) 
accountEnabled := false
requestBody.SetAccountEnabled(&accountEnabled) 
alternativeNames := []string {
	"/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1",
}
requestBody.SetAlternativeNames(alternativeNames)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
createDeviceFromTemplate, err := graphClient.Templates().DeviceTemplates().ByDeviceTemplateId("deviceTemplate-id").CreateDeviceFromTemplate().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.templates.devicetemplates.item.createdevicefromtemplate.CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.templates.devicetemplates.item.createdevicefromtemplate.CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody();
createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody.setExternalDeviceId("2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183");
createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody.setOperatingSystemVersion("Ubuntu 18.04");
createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody.setExternalSourceName("unknown");
createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody.setAccountEnabled(false);
LinkedList<String> alternativeNames = new LinkedList<String>();
alternativeNames.add("/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1");
createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody.setAlternativeNames(alternativeNames);
Device result = graphClient.templates().deviceTemplates().byDeviceTemplateId("{deviceTemplate-id}").createDeviceFromTemplate().post(createDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody);

Important

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 device = {
  externalDeviceId: '2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183',
  operatingSystemVersion: 'Ubuntu 18.04',
  externalSourceName: 'unknown',
  accountEnabled: false,
  alternativeNames: [
    '/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1'
  ]
};

await client.api('/templates/deviceTemplates/2d62b12a-0163-457d-9796-9602e9807e1/createDeviceFromTemplate')
	.version('beta')
	.post(device);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Templates\DeviceTemplates\Item\CreateDeviceFromTemplate\CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setExternalDeviceId('2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183');
$requestBody->setOperatingSystemVersion('Ubuntu 18.04');
$requestBody->setExternalSourceName('unknown');
$requestBody->setAccountEnabled(false);
$requestBody->setAlternativeNames(['/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->templates()->deviceTemplates()->byDeviceTemplateId('deviceTemplate-id')->createDeviceFromTemplate()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.templates.devicetemplates.item.create_device_from_template.create_device_from_template_post_request_body import CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CreateDeviceFromTemplatePostRequestBody(
	external_device_id = "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183",
	operating_system_version = "Ubuntu 18.04",
	external_source_name = "unknown",
	account_enabled = False,
	alternative_names = [
		"/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.templates.device_templates.by_device_template_id('deviceTemplate-id').create_device_from_template.post(request_body)

Important

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/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": "06d59f74-dbf3-432a-9971-c5f60374e4f0",
  "accountEnabled": false,
  "alternativeNames": [
    "/subscriptions/00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444/resourcegroups/testrg/providers/microsoft.deviceregistry/assets/asset1"
  ],
  "deviceId": "c6ca2657-8685-4398-9edc-a6a603f177b3",
  "displayName": "2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183",
  "externalSourceName": "unknown",
  "manufacturer": "IoT Device Template Manufacturer",
  "model": "IoT Device Template Model",
  "operatingSystem": "WindowsIoT",
  "operatingSystemVersion": "Ubuntu 18.04",
  "physicalIds": [
    "[EXTID]:2fa9424e-7ab0-4a22-8c90-2a20d15d8183"
  ],
  "profileType": "IoT",
  "sourceType": "External",
  "alternativeSecurityIds": [
    {
      "type": 2,
      "identityProvider": null,
      "key": "WAA1ADAAOQA6ADwAVQB..."
    }
  ]
}

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