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.
Add an owner to an application. Application owners can be individual users, the associated service principal, or another service principal.
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 application 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 /applications/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref
Request body
In the request body, supply the identifier of the directory object to be assigned as owner.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content
response code.
Example
Request
The following example shows the request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;
var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Applications["{application-id}"].Owners.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);
mgc-beta applications owners ref post --application-id {application-id} --body '{\
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}"\
}\
\
'
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").Owners().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}");
graphClient.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").owners().ref().post(referenceCreate);
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const directoryObject = {
'@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}'
};
await client.api('/applications/{id}/owners/$ref')
.version('beta')
.post(directoryObject);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ReferenceCreate;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}');
$graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->owners()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Applications
$params = @{
"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
New-MgBetaApplicationOwnerByRef -ApplicationId $applicationId -BodyParameter $params
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.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/beta/directoryObjects/{id}",
)
await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').owners.ref.post(request_body)
Response
The following example shows the response.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content