Namespace: microsoft.graph
Note
Microsoft recommends that you use the unified RBAC API instead of this API. The unified RBAC API provides more functionality and flexibility. For more information, see Create unifiedRoleAssignment.
Create a new directory role member.
You can use both the object ID and template ID of the directoryRole with this API. The template ID of a built-in role is immutable and can be seen in the role description on the Microsoft Entra admin center. For details, see Role template IDs.
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) |
RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
| Application |
RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory |
Not available. |
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. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.
HTTP request
POST /directoryRoles/{role-id}/members/$ref
POST /directoryRoles/roleTemplateId={roleTemplateId}/members/$ref
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of a directoryObject or user object to be added.
Response
If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code.
Examples
Example 1: Add a new member to a directory role using role id
In this request, replace fe8f10bf-c9c2-47eb-95cb-c26cc85f1830 with the id value for the directory role you wish to assign to the user or directory object. Replace 15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca with the id value of your user or directory object.
Request
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles/fe8f10bf-c9c2-47eb-95cb-c26cc85f1830/members/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.DirectoryRoles["{directoryRole-id}"].Members.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc directory-roles members ref post --directory-role-id {directoryRole-id} --body '{\
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca"\
}\
'
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 $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.DirectoryRoles().ByDirectoryRoleId("directoryRole-id").Members().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca");
graphClient.directoryRoles().byDirectoryRoleId("{directoryRole-id}").members().ref().post(referenceCreate);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const directoryObject = {
'@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca'
};
await client.api('/directoryRoles/fe8f10bf-c9c2-47eb-95cb-c26cc85f1830/members/$ref')
.post(directoryObject);
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\ReferenceCreate;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca');
$graphServiceClient->directoryRoles()->byDirectoryRoleId('directoryRole-id')->members()->ref()->post($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.Identity.DirectoryManagement
$params = @{
"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca"
}
New-MgDirectoryRoleMemberByRef -DirectoryRoleId $directoryRoleId -BodyParameter $params
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca",
)
await graph_client.directory_roles.by_directory_role_id('directoryRole-id').members.ref.post(request_body)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Response
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-type: text/plain
Example 2: Add a new member to a directory role using roleTemplateId
In this request, replace 88d8e3e3-8f55-4a1e-953a-9b9898b8876b with the value of the roleTemplateId for the directory role you wish to assign to the user or directory object. Replace bb165b45-151c-4cf6-9911-cd7188912848 with the id value of your user or directory object.
Request
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles/roleTemplateId=88d8e3e3-8f55-4a1e-953a-9b9898b8876b/members/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/bb165b45-151c-4cf6-9911-cd7188912848"
}
Response
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content