Namespace: microsoft.graph
Create a new sharePointBrowseSession object.
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-Restore.ReadWrite.All |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
| Application |
BackupRestore-Restore.ReadWrite.All |
Not available. |
Note
In the delegated flow, only users with the SharePoint Backup Administrator role can access this API.
HTTP request
POST /solutions/backupRestore/sharePointBrowseSessions
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the sharePointBrowseSession object.
You can specify the following properties when you create a sharePointBrowseSession.
| Property |
Type |
Description |
| restorePointId |
String |
The ID of the restorePoint on which the user wants to create a browse session. Required. |
Response
If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a sharePointBrowseSession object in the response body.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/sharePointBrowseSessions
Content-Type: application/json
{
"restorePointId": "TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE="
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new SharePointBrowseSession
{
RestorePointId = "TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE=",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Solutions.BackupRestore.SharePointBrowseSessions.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.NewSharePointBrowseSession()
restorePointId := "TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE="
requestBody.SetRestorePointId(&restorePointId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
sharePointBrowseSessions, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().SharePointBrowseSessions().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);
SharePointBrowseSession sharePointBrowseSession = new SharePointBrowseSession();
sharePointBrowseSession.setRestorePointId("TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE=");
SharePointBrowseSession result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().sharePointBrowseSessions().post(sharePointBrowseSession);
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 sharePointBrowseSession = {
restorePointId: 'TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE='
};
await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/sharePointBrowseSessions')
.post(sharePointBrowseSession);
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\SharePointBrowseSession;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new SharePointBrowseSession();
$requestBody->setRestorePointId('TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE=');
$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->sharePointBrowseSessions()->post($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.BackupRestore
$params = @{
restorePointId = "TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE="
}
New-MgSolutionBackupRestoreSharePointBrowseSession -BodyParameter $params
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.share_point_browse_session import SharePointBrowseSession
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SharePointBrowseSession(
restore_point_id = "TXpSbE5HUXpNR1l0TldZMFlpMDBNMk16TFdFeFl6WXRZall3TTJFeFl6Sm1OV000WHpFPV8xNzQ5NTY3MDAwXzE0XzE=",
)
result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.share_point_browse_sessions.post(request_body)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Response
The following example shows the response.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#solutions/backupRestore/sharePointBrowseSessions/$entity",
"id": "m_RtZ8BiiUXOK69cuN6gwubfm9_yeVlDg8s6hci01_cVOAE",
"restorePointDateTime": "2026-01-18T03:00:15Z",
"status": "created",
"createdDateTime": "2026-01-20T10:42:27Z",
"expirationDateTime": "2026-01-23T10:42:24Z",
"backupSizeInBytes": "584316",
"siteId": "f3846f8d-80a6-4480-ae20-5966ebdf2009"
}