Create account

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new userAccountInformation object in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/profile/account
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/account

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 a JSON representation of the userAccountInformation object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create a new userAccountInformation object.

Property	Type	Description
allowedAudiences	String	The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me, family, contacts, groupMembers, organization, federatedOrganizations, everyone, unknownFutureValue.
countryCode	String	Contains the two-character country code associated with the users account.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
preferredLanguageTag	localeInfo	Contains the language the user has associated as preferred for the account.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.

Response

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

Examples

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/account
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "countryCode": "NO",
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new UserAccountInformation
{
	AllowedAudiences = AllowedAudiences.Organization,
	CountryCode = "NO",
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta users profile account create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",\
  "countryCode": "NO",\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewUserAccountInformation()
allowedAudiences := graphmodels.ORGANIZATION_ALLOWEDAUDIENCES 
requestBody.SetAllowedAudiences(&allowedAudiences) 
countryCode := "NO"
requestBody.SetCountryCode(&countryCode) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
account, err := graphClient.Me().Profile().Account().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

UserAccountInformation userAccountInformation = new UserAccountInformation();
userAccountInformation.setAllowedAudiences(EnumSet.of(AllowedAudiences.Organization));
userAccountInformation.setCountryCode("NO");
UserAccountInformation result = graphClient.me().profile().account().post(userAccountInformation);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 userAccountInformation = {
  allowedAudiences: 'organization',
  countryCode: 'NO',
};

await client.api('/me/profile/account')
	.version('beta')
	.post(userAccountInformation);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\UserAccountInformation;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\AllowedAudiences;


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

$requestBody = new UserAccountInformation();
$requestBody->setAllowedAudiences(new AllowedAudiences('organization'));
$requestBody->setCountryCode('NO');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->account()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.People

$params = @{
	allowedAudiences = "organization"
	countryCode = "NO"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserProfileAccount -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.user_account_information import UserAccountInformation
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.allowed_audiences import AllowedAudiences
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = UserAccountInformation(
	allowed_audiences = AllowedAudiences.Organization,
	country_code = "NO",
)

result = await graph_client.me.profile.account.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "source": null,
  "ageGroup": "adult",
  "countryCode": "NO",
  "preferredLanguageTag": null,
  "userPrincipalName": "innocenty.popov@adventureworks.com"
}