Update device

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2024-10-26

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of a registered device.

Only certain properties of a device can be updated through approved Mobile Device Managment (MDM) apps.

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)	Directory.AccessAsUser.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Device.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All

In application-only scenarios and for non-Windows devices, that is, where the operatingSystem property is not Windows, the app can update only the extensionAttributes property.

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. Intune Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation. A calling user in the Cloud Device Administrator role can only enable or disable devices and a user with the Windows 365 Administrator role can only update basic device properties.

HTTP request

You can address the device using either its id or deviceId.

PATCH /devices/{id}
PATCH /devices(deviceId='{deviceId}')

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for the device properties that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
accountEnabled	Boolean	`true` if the account is enabled; otherwise, `false`. Only callers with at least the Cloud Device Administrator role can update this property.
operatingSystem	String	The type of operating system on the device.
operatingSystemVersion	String	The version of the operating system on the device
displayName	String	The display name for the device.
isCompliant	Boolean	`true` if the device complies with Mobile Device Management (MDM) policies; otherwise, `false`. This can only be updated by Intune for any device OS type or by an approved MDM app for Windows OS devices.
isManaged	Boolean	`true` if the device is managed by a Mobile Device Management (MDM) app; otherwise, `false`. This can only be updated by Intune for any device OS type or by an approved MDM app for Windows OS devices.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Example 1: Update the accountEnabled property of a device

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices/7c06cd31-7c30-4f3b-a5c3-444cd8dd63ac
Content-type: application/json

{
  "accountEnabled": false
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Device
{
	AccountEnabled = false,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Devices["{device-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);



mgc devices patch --device-id {device-id} --body '{\
  "accountEnabled": false\
}\
'



// 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.NewDevice()
accountEnabled := false
requestBody.SetAccountEnabled(&accountEnabled) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
devices, err := graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Device device = new Device();
device.setAccountEnabled(false);
Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").patch(device);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const device = {
  accountEnabled: false
};

await client.api('/devices/7c06cd31-7c30-4f3b-a5c3-444cd8dd63ac')
	.update(device);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Device;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Device();
$requestBody->setAccountEnabled(false);

$result = $graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	accountEnabled = $false
}

Update-MgDevice -DeviceId $deviceId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.device import Device
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Device(
	account_enabled = False,
)

result = await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-id').patch(request_body)

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Write extensionAttributes on a device

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices/7c06cd31-7c30-4f3b-a5c3-444cd8dd63ac
Content-type: application/json

{
    "extensionAttributes": {
        "extensionAttribute1": "BYOD-Device"
    }
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
using Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Serialization;

var requestBody = new Device
{
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"extensionAttributes" , new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
			{
				{
					"extensionAttribute1", new UntypedString("BYOD-Device")
				},
			})
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Devices["{device-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);



mgc devices patch --device-id {device-id} --body '{\
    "extensionAttributes": {\
        "extensionAttribute1": "BYOD-Device"\
    }\
}\
'



// 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.NewDevice()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
extensionAttributes := graph.New()
extensionAttribute1 := "BYOD-Device"
extensionAttributes.SetExtensionAttribute1(&extensionAttribute1) 
	requestBody.SetExtensionAttributes(extensionAttributes)
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
devices, err := graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Device device = new Device();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 extensionAttributes = new ();
extensionAttributes.setExtensionAttribute1("BYOD-Device");
additionalData.put("extensionAttributes", extensionAttributes);
device.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
Device result = graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").patch(device);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const device = {
    extensionAttributes: {
        extensionAttribute1: 'BYOD-Device'
    }
};

await client.api('/devices/7c06cd31-7c30-4f3b-a5c3-444cd8dd63ac')
	.update(device);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Device;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Device();
$additionalData = [
	'extensionAttributes' => [
		'extensionAttribute1' => 'BYOD-Device',
	],
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	extensionAttributes = @{
		extensionAttribute1 = "BYOD-Device"
	}
}

Update-MgDevice -DeviceId $deviceId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.device import Device
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Device(
	additional_data = {
			"extension_attributes" : {
					"extension_attribute1" : "BYOD-Device",
			},
	}
)

result = await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-id').patch(request_body)

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Update the accountEnabled property of a device

Request

Response

Example 2: Write extensionAttributes on a device

Request

Response

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