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Create driveExclusionUnitsBulkAdditionJob

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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Create a drive exclusion units bulk addition job for a OneDrive for work or school protection policy.

The initial status upon creation of the job is active. When all the drives are added to the corresponding OneDrive for work or school protection policy as exclusion units, the status of the job is completed. If any failures occur, the status of the job is completedWithErrors.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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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/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies/{oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicyId}/driveExclusionUnitsBulkAdditionJobs

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, include a JSON representation of the driveExclusionUnitsBulkAdditionJob object.

Property Type Description
displayName String The display name of the bulk addition job. Required.
drives String collection The email addresses or user principal names of the users whose OneDrive drives are to be added as exclusion units. Required.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/solutions/backupRestore/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies/845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e/driveExclusionUnitsBulkAdditionJobs
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Bulk exclude contractor drives",
  "drives": [
    "contractor1@contoso.com",
    "contractor2@contoso.com",
    "contractor3@contoso.com"
  ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#solutions/backupRestore/oneDriveForBusinessProtectionPolicies('845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e')/driveExclusionUnitsBulkAdditionJobs/$entity",
  "id": "4b014d8c-71fe-4d00-a01a-31850bc5b32c",
  "displayName": "Bulk exclude contractor drives",
  "status": "active",
  "drives": [
    "contractor1@contoso.com",
    "contractor2@contoso.com",
    "contractor3@contoso.com"
  ],
  "createdDateTime": "2026-02-16T14:00:00Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-02-16T14:00:00Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e"
    }
  }
}
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