authenticationStrengthPolicy: updateAllowedCombinations

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.

Update the allowedCombinations property of an authenticationStrengthPolicy object. To update other properties of an authenticationStrengthPolicy object, use the Update authenticationStrengthPolicy method.

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

POST /policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/{authenticationStrengthPolicyId}/updateAllowedCombinations

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 shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter Type Description
allowedCombinations authenticationMethodModes collection The authentication method combinations allowed by this authentication strength policy. The possible values of this flagged enum are: password, voice, hardwareOath, softwareOath, sms, fido2, windowsHelloForBusiness, microsoftAuthenticatorPush, deviceBasedPush, temporaryAccessPassOneTime, temporaryAccessPassMultiUse, email, x509CertificateSingleFactor, x509CertificateMultiFactor, federatedSingleFactor, federatedMultiFactor, unknownFutureValue. For the list of allowed combinations, call the List authenticationMethodModes API. Required.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/33c5d2c0-884e-4b5d-a5b8-5395082b092c/updateAllowedCombinations
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 51

{
  "allowedCombinations": [
      "password, voice"
  ]
}

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

{
  "@odata.type" : "#microsoft.graph.updateAllowedCombinationsResult",
  "previousCombinations": [
    "fido2",
    "password, voice"
  ],
  "currentCombinations": [
    "password, voice"
  ],
  "conditionalAccessReferences": [
    "53a3968a-ae2c-4b82-a313-091d10c52bfa"
  ],
  "additionalInformation": "You have lowered the security of the My Custom Strength authentication strength by adding a lower security combination. This Authentication Strength is referenced by one or more Conditional Access policies. Review conditionalAccessReferences to understand which Conditional Access policies were impacted by this change. To reverse your changes back, use updateAllowedCombinations action with the previousCombinations values."
}