The 'description' property caused OneDrive Graph API calls to fail when using accounts created before 2019/11.

Question

Following "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_createuploadsession?view=odsp-graph-online" to call OneDrive graph api.

Account "A" was created before 2019/11,

Account "B" was created recently.

Request1:

{
  "item": {
    "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename",
    "description": "",
    "fileSystemInfo": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.fileSystemInfo"},
    "name": "ttttt.jpg"
  } 
}

If using account "A", the response is as follows:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "invalidRequest",
    "message": "Invalid request",
    "innerError": {
      "date": "2024-09-30T12:52:59",
      "request-id": "9c768b04-0dfd-41d1-a3f0-69c223536fa6",
      "client-request-id": "9c768b04-0dfd-41d1-a3f0-69c223536fa6"
    }
  }
}

If using account "B", the response is as follows:

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.uploadSession",
  "expirationDateTime": "2024-10-05T13:17:50.988Z",
  "nextExpectedRanges": ["0-"],
  "uploadUrl": "https://api.onedrive.com/rup/1fe3b5cce115f141/eyJSZXNvdXJjZUlEIjoiMUZFM0......"
}

Now just remove "description" from the request.

Request2:

{
  "item": {
    "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename",
    "fileSystemInfo": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.fileSystemInfo"},
    "name": "ttttt.jpg"
  }
}

If using account "A", the response is as follows:

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.uploadSession",
  "expirationDateTime": "2024-10-05T13:17:50.988Z",
  "nextExpectedRanges": ["0-"],
  "uploadUrl": "https://api.onedrive.com/rup/1fe3b5cce115f141/eyJSZXNvdXJjZUlEIjoiMUZFM0......"
}

If using account "B", the response is as follows:

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.uploadSession",
  "expirationDateTime": "2024-10-05T13:17:50.988Z",
  "nextExpectedRanges": ["0-"],
  "uploadUrl": "https://api.onedrive.com/rup/1fe3b5cce115f141/eyJSZXNvdXJjZUlEIjoiMUZFM0......"
}

Why does the "description" in the request cause the request to fail for account "A" but work for account "B".

Answer 1

Hello QA1,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Support!

According to the documentation, the description parameter only supports personal accounts, so please check if Account "A" is a personal account.

See this document for more details.

Hope this helps.

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