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)
FileStorageContainer.Selected
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
FileStorageContainer.Selected
Not available.
In addition to Microsoft Graph permissions, your app also must have the necessary container-type level permission or permissions to call this API. For details about container types, see Container Types. To learn more about container-type level permissions, see SharePoint Embedded Authorization.
HTTP request
POST /storage/fileStorage/containers
Optional query parameters
This method supports the following OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.
Name
Description
dataLocation
Specifies the desired data location for container creation in Multi-Geo tenants. Omitting the $dataLocation parameter in the request creates the container at the tenant's default location. For more information, see available Multi-Geo regions and their location codes.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/storage/fileStorage/containers
Content-Type: application/json
{
"displayName": "My Application Storage Container",
"description": "Description of My Application Storage Container",
"containerTypeId": "91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73",
"settings": {
"isOcrEnabled": true
}
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new FileStorageContainer
{
DisplayName = "My Application Storage Container",
Description = "Description of My Application Storage Container",
ContainerTypeId = Guid.Parse("91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73"),
Settings = new FileStorageContainerSettings
{
IsOcrEnabled = true,
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Storage.FileStorage.Containers.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
"github.com/google/uuid"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewFileStorageContainer()
displayName := "My Application Storage Container"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
description := "Description of My Application Storage Container"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
containerTypeId := uuid.MustParse("91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73")
requestBody.SetContainerTypeId(&containerTypeId)
settings := graphmodels.NewFileStorageContainerSettings()
isOcrEnabled := true
settings.SetIsOcrEnabled(&isOcrEnabled)
requestBody.SetSettings(settings)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
containers, err := graphClient.Storage().FileStorage().Containers().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
FileStorageContainer fileStorageContainer = new FileStorageContainer();
fileStorageContainer.setDisplayName("My Application Storage Container");
fileStorageContainer.setDescription("Description of My Application Storage Container");
fileStorageContainer.setContainerTypeId(UUID.fromString("91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73"));
FileStorageContainerSettings settings = new FileStorageContainerSettings();
settings.setIsOcrEnabled(true);
fileStorageContainer.setSettings(settings);
FileStorageContainer result = graphClient.storage().fileStorage().containers().post(fileStorageContainer);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\FileStorageContainer;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\FileStorageContainerSettings;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new FileStorageContainer();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My Application Storage Container');
$requestBody->setDescription('Description of My Application Storage Container');
$requestBody->setContainerTypeId('91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73');
$settings = new FileStorageContainerSettings();
$settings->setIsOcrEnabled(true);
$requestBody->setSettings($settings);
$result = $graphServiceClient->storage()->fileStorage()->containers()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.file_storage_container import FileStorageContainer
from msgraph.generated.models.file_storage_container_settings import FileStorageContainerSettings
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = FileStorageContainer(
display_name = "My Application Storage Container",
description = "Description of My Application Storage Container",
container_type_id = UUID("91710488-5756-407f-9046-fbe5f0b4de73"),
settings = FileStorageContainerSettings(
is_ocr_enabled = True,
),
)
result = await graph_client.storage.file_storage.containers.post(request_body)