Create exchangeProtectionPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a protection policy for the Exchange service in a Microsoft 365 tenant. The policy is set to inactive when it is created. Users can also provide a list of protection units under the policy.

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)	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/exchangeProtectionPolicies/

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, include a JSON representation of the exchangeProtectionPolicy object You can specify the following properties when you create an exchangeProtectionPolicy object.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Name of the Exchange Protection Policy.
mailboxProtectionUnits	Collection(mailboxProtectionUnit)	Collection of the mailboxProtectionUnits to be added to the exchangeProtectionPolicy.

Response

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

For a list of possible error responses, see Backup Storage API error responses.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/exchangeProtectionPolicies

{
  "displayName": "Exchange Protection Policy",
  "mailboxProtectionUnits": [
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
    },
    {
      "directoryObjectId": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
    }
  ]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ExchangeProtectionPolicy
{
	DisplayName = "Exchange Protection Policy",
	MailboxProtectionUnits = new List<MailboxProtectionUnit>
	{
		new MailboxProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a",
		},
		new MailboxProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7",
		},
		new MailboxProtectionUnit
		{
			DirectoryObjectId = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Solutions.BackupRestore.ExchangeProtectionPolicies.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc solutions backup-restore exchange-protection-policies create

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewExchangeProtectionPolicy()
displayName := "Exchange Protection Policy"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 


mailboxProtectionUnit := graphmodels.NewMailboxProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a"
mailboxProtectionUnit.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 
mailboxProtectionUnit1 := graphmodels.NewMailboxProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
mailboxProtectionUnit1.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 
mailboxProtectionUnit2 := graphmodels.NewMailboxProtectionUnit()
directoryObjectId := "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
mailboxProtectionUnit2.SetDirectoryObjectId(&directoryObjectId) 

mailboxProtectionUnits := []graphmodels.MailboxProtectionUnitable {
	mailboxProtectionUnit,
	mailboxProtectionUnit1,
	mailboxProtectionUnit2,
}
requestBody.SetMailboxProtectionUnits(mailboxProtectionUnits)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
exchangeProtectionPolicies, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().ExchangeProtectionPolicies().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);

ExchangeProtectionPolicy exchangeProtectionPolicy = new ExchangeProtectionPolicy();
exchangeProtectionPolicy.setDisplayName("Exchange Protection Policy");
LinkedList<MailboxProtectionUnit> mailboxProtectionUnits = new LinkedList<MailboxProtectionUnit>();
MailboxProtectionUnit mailboxProtectionUnit = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
mailboxProtectionUnit.setDirectoryObjectId("cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a");
mailboxProtectionUnits.add(mailboxProtectionUnit);
MailboxProtectionUnit mailboxProtectionUnit1 = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
mailboxProtectionUnit1.setDirectoryObjectId("9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7");
mailboxProtectionUnits.add(mailboxProtectionUnit1);
MailboxProtectionUnit mailboxProtectionUnit2 = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
mailboxProtectionUnit2.setDirectoryObjectId("b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7");
mailboxProtectionUnits.add(mailboxProtectionUnit2);
exchangeProtectionPolicy.setMailboxProtectionUnits(mailboxProtectionUnits);
ExchangeProtectionPolicy result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().exchangeProtectionPolicies().post(exchangeProtectionPolicy);

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 exchangeProtectionPolicy = {
  displayName: 'Exchange Protection Policy',
  mailboxProtectionUnits: [
    {
      directoryObjectId: 'cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a'
    },
    {
      directoryObjectId: '9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7'
    },
    {
      directoryObjectId: 'b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7'
    }
  ]
};

await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/exchangeProtectionPolicies')
	.post(exchangeProtectionPolicy);

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\ExchangeProtectionPolicy;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\MailboxProtectionUnit;


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

$requestBody = new ExchangeProtectionPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Exchange Protection Policy');
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit1 = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit1->setDirectoryObjectId('cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a');
$mailboxProtectionUnitsArray []= $mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit1;
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit2 = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit2->setDirectoryObjectId('9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7');
$mailboxProtectionUnitsArray []= $mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit2;
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit3 = new MailboxProtectionUnit();
$mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit3->setDirectoryObjectId('b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7');
$mailboxProtectionUnitsArray []= $mailboxProtectionUnitsMailboxProtectionUnit3;
$requestBody->setMailboxProtectionUnits($mailboxProtectionUnitsArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->exchangeProtectionPolicies()->post($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.BackupRestore

$params = @{
	displayName = "Exchange Protection Policy"
	mailboxProtectionUnits = @(
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a"
		}
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7"
		}
		@{
			directoryObjectId = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7"
		}
	)
}

New-MgSolutionBackupRestoreExchangeProtectionPolicy -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.exchange_protection_policy import ExchangeProtectionPolicy
from msgraph.generated.models.mailbox_protection_unit import MailboxProtectionUnit
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ExchangeProtectionPolicy(
	display_name = "Exchange Protection Policy",
	mailbox_protection_units = [
		MailboxProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "cdd3a849-dcaf-4a85-af82-7e39fc14019a",
		),
		MailboxProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "9bc069da-b746-41a4-89ab-26125c6373c7",
		),
		MailboxProtectionUnit(
			directory_object_id = "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.exchange_protection_policies.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-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies/b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7

{
  "@odata.context": "/solutions/backupRestore/$metadata#exchangeProtectionPolicies/$entity",
  "id": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
  "displayName": "SharePoint Protection Policy",
  "status": "inactive",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "User1@contoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User1"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "User2@constoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "User2"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "retentionSettings": [
    {
      "interval": "R/PT10M",
      "period": "P2W"
    },
    {
      "interval": "R/P1W",
      "period": "P1Y"
    }
  ]
}