Start synchronizationJob

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Start an existing synchronization job. If the job is in a paused state, it continues processing changes from the point where it was paused. If the job is in quarantine, the quarantine status is cleared. Don't create scripts to call the start job continuously while it's running because that can cause the service to stop running. Use the start job only when the job is currently paused or in quarantine.

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)	Synchronization.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	Synchronization.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or 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.

• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator
• Hybrid Identity Administrator - to configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

HTTP Request

POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/start

Request headers

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

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, returns a 204 No Content response. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/start

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].Synchronization.Jobs["{synchronizationJob-id}"].Start.PostAsync();

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

CLI

mgc service-principals synchronization jobs start post --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --synchronization-job-id {synchronizationJob-id}

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"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-id").Synchronization().Jobs().BySynchronizationJobId("synchronizationJob-id").Start().Post(context.Background(), 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);

graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").synchronization().jobs().bySynchronizationJobId("{synchronizationJob-id}").start().post();

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);

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/start')
	.post();

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;


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


$graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->synchronization()->jobs()->bySynchronizationJobId('synchronizationJob-id')->start()->post()->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

Start-MgServicePrincipalSynchronizationJob -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -SynchronizationJobId $synchronizationJobId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').synchronization.jobs.by_synchronization_job_id('synchronizationJob-id').start.post()

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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content