Upsert federatedIdentityCredential

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new federatedIdentityCredential object for an application if it doesn't exist, or update the properties of an existing federatedIdentityCredential object. By configuring a trust relationship between your Microsoft Entra application registration and the identity provider for your compute platform, you can use tokens issued by that platform to authenticate with Microsoft identity platform and call APIs in the Microsoft ecosystem. Maximum of 20 objects can be added to an application.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
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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)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	Application.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

PATCH /applications/{id}/federatedIdentityCredentials(name='{name}')
PATCH /applications(appId='{appId}')/federatedIdentityCredentials(name='{name}')

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.
Prefer	create-if-missing. Required for upsert behavior, otherwise the request is treated as an update operation.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the federatedIdentityCredential object. The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the federatedIdentityCredential. Note that the name property is required as part of the request URL.

Property	Type	Description
audiences	String collection	The audience that can appear in the external token. This field is mandatory and should be set to api://AzureADTokenExchange for Microsoft Entra ID. It says what Microsoft identity platform should accept in the aud claim in the incoming token. This value represents Microsoft Entra ID in your external identity provider and has no fixed value across identity providers - you may need to create a new application registration in your identity provider to serve as the audience of this token. This field can only accept a single value and has a limit of 600 characters. Required.
issuer	String	TThe URL of the external identity provider and must match the issuer claim of the external token being exchanged. The combination of the values of issuer and subject must be unique on the app. It has a limit of 600 characters. Required.
subject	String	Required. The identifier of the external software workload within the external identity provider. Like the audience value, it has no fixed format, as each identity provider uses their own - sometimes a GUID, sometimes a colon delimited identifier, sometimes arbitrary strings. The value here must match the sub claim within the token presented to Microsoft Entra ID. It has a limit of 600 characters. The combination of issuer and subject must be unique on the app.

Response

If successful, if an application object with name doesn't exist, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a new federatedIdentityCredential object in the response body.

If an application object with name already exists, this method updates the federatedIdentityCredential object and returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Example 1: Create a new federatedIdentityCredential if it doesn't exist

The following example creates a federatedIdentityCredential because a federatedIdentityCredential with the specified name value doesn't exist.

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications(uniqueName='app-65278')/federatedIdentityCredentials(name='fic01-app-65278')
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#applications('bcd7c908-1c4d-4d48-93ee-ff38349a75c8')/federatedIdentityCredentials/$entity",
    "id": "d9b7bf1e-429e-4678-8132-9b00c9846cc4",
    "name": "testing02fic01-app-65278",
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "description": null,
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

Example 2: Update an existing federatedIdentityCredential

The following example updates the federatedIdentityCredential because a federatedIdentityCredential with the specified name value exists.

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications(uniqueName='app-65278')/federatedIdentityCredentials(name='fic01-app-65278')
Content-Type: application/json
Prefer: create-if-missing

{
    "issuer": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/3d1e2be9-a10a-4a0c-8380-7ce190f98ed9/v2.0",
    "subject": "a7d388c3-5e3f-4959-ac7d-786b3383006a",
    "audiences": [
        "api://AzureADTokenExchange"
    ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content