protectionPolicyBase: activate

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Activate a protectionPolicyBase.

Currently, only one active backup policy per underlying service is supported (that is, one for OneDrive accounts, one for SharePoint sites, and one for Exchange Online users). You can add or remove artifacts (sites or user accounts) to or from each active 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/protectionPolicies/{protectionPolicyBaseId}/activate

Request headers

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

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 202 Accepted response code and a protectionPolicyBase object in the response body.

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

Examples

Example 1: Activate an inactive protection policy

The following example shows a request to activate an inactive protection policy.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies/61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461/activate

C#

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

// 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.ProtectionPolicies["{protectionPolicyBase-id}"].Activate.PostAsync();

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 protection-policies activate post --protection-policy-base-id {protectionPolicyBase-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
activate, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().ProtectionPolicies().ByProtectionPolicyBaseId("protectionPolicyBase-id").Activate().Post(context.Background(), 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);

var result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().protectionPolicies().byProtectionPolicyBaseId("{protectionPolicyBase-id}").activate().post();

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);

await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies/61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461/activate')
	.post();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->protectionPolicies()->byProtectionPolicyBaseId('protectionPolicyBase-id')->activate()->post()->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.Bookings

Initialize-MgBackupRestoreProtectionPolicy -ProtectionPolicyBaseId $protectionPolicyBaseId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.protection_policies.by_protection_policy_base_id('protectionPolicyBase-id').activate.post()

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.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/protectionPolicies('61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461')

{
  "@odata.context": "/solutions/backupRestore/$metadata#ProtectionPolicies/$entity",
  "@odata.id": "/solutions/backupRestore/ProtectionPolicies(61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461)",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.sharePointProtectionPolicy",
  "id": "61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461",
  "displayName": "SharePoint Protection Policy",
  "status": "updating",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "ryan@contoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "Ryan"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": {
      "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
      "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
    },
    "user": {
      "email": "rian@contoso.com",
      "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
      "displayName": "rian"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
  "retentionSettings": [
    {
      "interval": "R/PT10M",
      "period": "P2W"
    },
    {
      "interval": "R/P1W",
      "period": "P1Y"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Activate an active protection policy

The following example shows a request to activate a protection policy that's already active. This request results in an error.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/protectionPolicies/61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461/activate

C#

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

// 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.ProtectionPolicies["{protectionPolicyBase-id}"].Activate.PostAsync();

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 protection-policies activate post --protection-policy-base-id {protectionPolicyBase-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
activate, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().ProtectionPolicies().ByProtectionPolicyBaseId("protectionPolicyBase-id").Activate().Post(context.Background(), 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);

var result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().protectionPolicies().byProtectionPolicyBaseId("{protectionPolicyBase-id}").activate().post();

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);

await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/protectionPolicies/61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461/activate')
	.post();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->protectionPolicies()->byProtectionPolicyBaseId('protectionPolicyBase-id')->activate()->post()->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.Bookings

Initialize-MgBackupRestoreProtectionPolicy -ProtectionPolicyBaseId $protectionPolicyBaseId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.protection_policies.by_protection_policy_base_id('protectionPolicyBase-id').activate.post()

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.

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/protectionPolicies/61633878-8321-4950-bfaf-ed285bdd1461

{
  "error": {
    "code": "invalidStateForActivation",
    "message": "Policy in already active state, which is invalid for activation. Policy must be Inactive or ActiveWithErrors state.",
    "innerError": {
      "date": "2023-03-03T07:15:31",
      "request-id": "7e921b55-8af4-41f5-881d-d425af822be0",
      "client-request-id": "77d27e8a-f18e-ce3a-42c9-f8a87fc00126"
    }
  }
}