Namespace: microsoft.graph
Note: The Microsoft Graph API for Intune requires an active Intune license for the tenant.
Create a new user object.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
| Global service |
US Government L4 |
US Government L5 (DOD) |
China operated by 21Vianet |
| ✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Permissions
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) |
DeviceManagementServiceConfig.ReadWrite.All, DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
| Application |
DeviceManagementServiceConfig.ReadWrite.All, DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All |
HTTP Request
POST /users
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation for the user object.
The following table shows the properties that are required when you create the user.
| Property |
Type |
Description |
| id |
String |
Unique identifier of the user. |
| deviceEnrollmentLimit |
Int32 |
The limit on the maximum number of devices that the user is permitted to enroll. Allowed values are 5 or 1000. |
Response
If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a user object in the response body.
Example
Request
Here is an example of the request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 77
{
"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
"deviceEnrollmentLimit": 5
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new User
{
OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.user",
DeviceEnrollmentLimit = 5,
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users.PostAsync(requestBody);
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.NewUser()
deviceEnrollmentLimit := int32(5)
requestBody.SetDeviceEnrollmentLimit(&deviceEnrollmentLimit)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
users, err := graphClient.Users().Post(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);
User user = new User();
user.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.user");
user.setDeviceEnrollmentLimit(5);
User result = graphClient.users().post(user);
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 user = {
'@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.user',
deviceEnrollmentLimit: 5
};
await client.api('/users')
.post(user);
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\User;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new User();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.user');
$requestBody->setDeviceEnrollmentLimit(5);
$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->post($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.Users
$params = @{
"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.user"
deviceEnrollmentLimit = 5
}
New-MgUser -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.user import User
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = User(
odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.user",
device_enrollment_limit = 5,
)
result = await graph_client.users.post(request_body)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Response
Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 126
{
"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
"id": "d36894ae-94ae-d368-ae94-68d3ae9468d3",
"deviceEnrollmentLimit": 5
}