Create roleAssignment

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Note: The Microsoft Graph API for Intune requires an active Intune license for the tenant.

Create a new roleAssignment 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

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

POST /deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation for the roleAssignment object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create the roleAssignment.

Property	Type	Description
id	String	Key of the entity. This is read-only and automatically generated.
displayName	String	The display or friendly name of the role Assignment.
description	String	Description of the Role Assignment.
resourceScopes	String collection	List of ids of role scope member security groups. These are IDs from Azure Active Directory.

Response

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

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 193

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new RoleAssignment
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
	DisplayName = "Display Name value",
	Description = "Description value",
	ResourceScopes = new List<string>
	{
		"Resource Scopes value",
	},
};

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

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

CLI

mgc device-management role-definitions role-assignments create --role-definition-id {roleDefinition-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",\
  "displayName": "Display Name value",\
  "description": "Description value",\
  "resourceScopes": [\
    "Resource Scopes value"\
  ]\
}\
'

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.NewRoleAssignment()
displayName := "Display Name value"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Description value"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
resourceScopes := []string {
	"Resource Scopes value",
}
requestBody.SetResourceScopes(resourceScopes)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
roleAssignments, err := graphClient.DeviceManagement().RoleDefinitions().ByRoleDefinitionId("roleDefinition-id").RoleAssignments().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);

RoleAssignment roleAssignment = new RoleAssignment();
roleAssignment.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment");
roleAssignment.setDisplayName("Display Name value");
roleAssignment.setDescription("Description value");
LinkedList<String> resourceScopes = new LinkedList<String>();
resourceScopes.add("Resource Scopes value");
roleAssignment.setResourceScopes(resourceScopes);
RoleAssignment result = graphClient.deviceManagement().roleDefinitions().byRoleDefinitionId("{roleDefinition-id}").roleAssignments().post(roleAssignment);

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 roleAssignment = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment',
  displayName: 'Display Name value',
  description: 'Description value',
  resourceScopes: [
    'Resource Scopes value'
  ]
};

await client.api('/deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments')
	.post(roleAssignment);

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\RoleAssignment;


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

$requestBody = new RoleAssignment();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Display Name value');
$requestBody->setDescription('Description value');
$requestBody->setResourceScopes(['Resource Scopes value', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->deviceManagement()->roleDefinitions()->byRoleDefinitionId('roleDefinition-id')->roleAssignments()->post($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.DeviceManagement.Administration

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment"
	displayName = "Display Name value"
	description = "Description value"
	resourceScopes = @(
	"Resource Scopes value"
)
}

New-MgDeviceManagementRoleDefinitionRoleAssignment -RoleDefinitionId $roleDefinitionId -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.role_assignment import RoleAssignment
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = RoleAssignment(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
	display_name = "Display Name value",
	description = "Description value",
	resource_scopes = [
		"Resource Scopes value",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.device_management.role_definitions.by_role_definition_id('roleDefinition-id').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

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 242

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "id": "b3234d24-4d24-b323-244d-23b3244d23b3",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}