Grant an appRoleAssignment to a group

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to assign an app role to a security group. All direct members of the group will be considered assigned. Security groups with dynamic memberships are supported. To grant an app role assignment to a group, you need three identifiers:

• principalId: The ID of the group to which you are assigning the app role.
• resourceId: The ID of the resource servicePrincipal that has defined the app role.
• appRoleId: The ID of the appRole (defined on the resource service principal) to assign to the group.

Additional licenses might be required to use a group to manage access to applications.

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)	AppRoleAssignment.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	AppRoleAssignment.ReadWrite.All	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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

• Directory Synchronization Accounts - for Microsoft Entra Connect and Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync services
• Directory Writer
• Hybrid Identity Administrator
• Identity Governance Administrator
• Privileged Role Administrator
• User Administrator
• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator

HTTP request

POST /groups/{groupId}/appRoleAssignments

Note

As a best practice, we recommend creating app role assignments through the appRoleAssignedTo relationship of the resource service principal, instead of the appRoleAssignments relationship of the assigned user, group, or service principal.

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, supply a JSON representation of an appRoleAssignment object.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the appRoleAssignment. Specify other writable properties as necessary for your appRoleAssignment.

Property	Type	Description
appRoleId	Guid	The identifier (id) for the app role which is assigned to the principal. This app role must be exposed in the appRoles property on the resource application's service principal (resourceId). If the resource application has not declared any app roles, a default app role ID of 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 can be specified to signal that the principal is assigned to the resource app without any specific app roles.
principalId	Guid	The unique identifier (id) for the group being granted the app role.
resourceId	Guid	The unique identifier (id) for the resource service principal for which the assignment is made.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request. In this example, ID in the URL and value of principalId would both be the ID of the assigned group.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12/appRoleAssignments
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "principalId": "7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12",
  "resourceId": "076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055",
  "appRoleId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AppRoleAssignment
{
	PrincipalId = Guid.Parse("7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12"),
	ResourceId = Guid.Parse("076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055"),
	AppRoleId = Guid.Parse("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"),
};

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

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc groups app-role-assignments create --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "principalId": "7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12",\
  "resourceId": "076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055",\
  "appRoleId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// 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.NewAppRoleAssignment()
principalId := uuid.MustParse("7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12")
requestBody.SetPrincipalId(&principalId) 
resourceId := uuid.MustParse("076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055")
requestBody.SetResourceId(&resourceId) 
appRoleId := uuid.MustParse("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")
requestBody.SetAppRoleId(&appRoleId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
appRoleAssignments, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").AppRoleAssignments().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.

Java

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AppRoleAssignment appRoleAssignment = new AppRoleAssignment();
appRoleAssignment.setPrincipalId(UUID.fromString("7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12"));
appRoleAssignment.setResourceId(UUID.fromString("076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055"));
appRoleAssignment.setAppRoleId(UUID.fromString("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"));
AppRoleAssignment result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").appRoleAssignments().post(appRoleAssignment);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const appRoleAssignment = {
  principalId: '7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12',
  resourceId: '076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055',
  appRoleId: '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
};

await client.api('/groups/7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12/appRoleAssignments')
	.post(appRoleAssignment);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

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


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

$requestBody = new AppRoleAssignment();
$requestBody->setPrincipalId('7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12');
$requestBody->setResourceId('076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055');
$requestBody->setAppRoleId('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000');

$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->appRoleAssignments()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Applications

$params = @{
	principalId = "7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12"
	resourceId = "076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055"
	appRoleId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}

New-MgGroupAppRoleAssignment -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.app_role_assignment import AppRoleAssignment
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AppRoleAssignment(
	principal_id = UUID("7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12"),
	resource_id = UUID("076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055"),
	app_role_id = UUID("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"),
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').app_role_assignments.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/$metadata#groups('7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12')/appRoleAssignments/$entity",
  "id": "pNl5diMjzUS1wmc-yI2LEkGgWqFFrFdLhG2Ly2CysL4",
  "deletedDateTime": null,
  "appRoleId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "createdDateTime": "2021-02-19T17:55:08.3369542Z",
  "principalDisplayName": "Young techmakers",
  "principalId": "7679d9a4-2323-44cd-b5c2-673ec88d8b12",
  "principalType": "Group",
  "resourceDisplayName": "Yammer",
  "resourceId": "076e8b57-bac8-49d7-9396-e3449b685055"
}