Update externalGroup

Namespace: microsoft.graph.externalConnectors

Update the properties of an externalGroup object.

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

HTTP request

PATCH /external/connections/{connectionsId}/groups/{externalGroupId}

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 the values for relevant properties that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, do not include properties that are not changing.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	The friendly name of the external group. Optional.
description	String	The description of the external group. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Example

Request

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/external/connections/{connectionsId}/groups/{externalGroupId}
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Contoso Marketing",
  "description": "The product marketing team"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.ExternalConnectors;

var requestBody = new ExternalGroup
{
	DisplayName = "Contoso Marketing",
	Description = "The product marketing team",
};

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

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

CLI

mgc external connections groups patch --external-connection-id {externalConnection-id} --external-group-id {externalGroup-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Contoso Marketing",\
  "description": "The product marketing team"\
}\
'

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

requestBody := graphmodelsexternalconnectors.NewExternalGroup()
displayName := "Contoso Marketing"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "The product marketing team"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
groups, err := graphClient.External().Connections().ByExternalConnectionId("externalConnection-id").Groups().ByExternalGroupId("externalGroup-id").Patch(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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.externalconnectors.ExternalGroup externalGroup = new com.microsoft.graph.models.externalconnectors.ExternalGroup();
externalGroup.setDisplayName("Contoso Marketing");
externalGroup.setDescription("The product marketing team");
com.microsoft.graph.models.externalconnectors.ExternalGroup result = graphClient.external().connections().byExternalConnectionId("{externalConnection-id}").groups().byExternalGroupId("{externalGroup-id}").patch(externalGroup);

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 externalGroup = {
  displayName: 'Contoso Marketing',
  description: 'The product marketing team'
};

await client.api('/external/connections/{connectionsId}/groups/{externalGroupId}')
	.update(externalGroup);

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\ExternalConnectors\ExternalGroup;


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

$requestBody = new ExternalGroup();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Contoso Marketing');
$requestBody->setDescription('The product marketing team');

$result = $graphServiceClient->external()->connections()->byExternalConnectionId('externalConnection-id')->groups()->byExternalGroupId('externalGroup-id')->patch($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.Search

$params = @{
	displayName = "Contoso Marketing"
	description = "The product marketing team"
}

Update-MgExternalConnectionGroup -ExternalConnectionId $externalConnectionId -ExternalGroupId $externalGroupId -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.external_connectors.external_group import ExternalGroup
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ExternalGroup(
	display_name = "Contoso Marketing",
	description = "The product marketing team",
)

result = await graph_client.external.connections.by_external_connection_id('externalConnection-id').groups.by_external_group_id('externalGroup-id').patch(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content