Create exchangeProtectionPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a protection policy for the Exchange service in a Microsoft 365 tenant. The policy is set to inactive when it is created. Users can also provide a list of protection units under the policy.

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) BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All Not available.

HTTP request

POST /solutions/backupRestore/exchangeProtectionPolicies/

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, include a JSON representation of the exchangeProtectionPolicy object You can specify the following properties when you create an exchangeProtectionPolicy object.

Property Type Description
displayName String Name of the Exchange Protection Policy.
mailboxProtectionUnits Collection(mailboxProtectionUnit) Collection of the mailboxProtectionUnits to be added to the exchangeProtectionPolicy.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an exchangeProtectionPolicy object in the response body.

For a list of possible error responses, see Backup Storage API error responses.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/exchangeProtectionPolicies

{
  "displayName": "Exchange Protection Policy",
  "mailboxProtectionUnits": [
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
    }
  ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies/b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7

{
  "@odata.context": "/solutions/backupRestore/$metadata#exchangeProtectionPolicies/$entity",
  "id": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
  "displayName": "SharePoint Protection Policy",
  "status": "inactive",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User1"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User2"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "retentionSettings": [
    {
      "interval": "R/PT10M",
      "period": "P2W"
    },
    {
      "interval": "R/P1W",
      "period": "P1Y"
    }
  ]
}