Namespace: microsoft.graph
Use this API to add an owner for the servicePrincipal. Service principal owners can be users, the service principal itself, or other service principals.
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) |
Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All |
Directory.ReadWrite.All |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
Application |
Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy and Directory.Read.All |
Directory.Read.All and Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.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
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of directoryObject object.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content
response code and a directoryObject object in the response body.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
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);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc service-principals owners ref post --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --body '{\
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"\
}\
'
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 $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-id").Owners().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}");
graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").owners().ref().post(referenceCreate);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const directoryObject = {
'@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}'
};
await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref')
.post(directoryObject);
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\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();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Applications
$params = @{
"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
New-MgServicePrincipalOwnerByRef -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -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.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
)
await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').owners.ref.post(request_body)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of directoryObject object.
Response
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content