Create roleDefinitions

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new custom unifiedRoleDefinition object. This feature requires a Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license.

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)	RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory	Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory	Directory.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions

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 unifiedRoleDefinition object.

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

Parameter	Type	Description
displayName	string	The display name for the role definition.
isEnabled	Boolean	Flag indicating if the role is enabled for assignment. If false, the role is not available for assignment.
rolePermissions	unifiedRolePermission collection	List of permissions included in the role.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following is an example of creating a custom role.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions
Content-type: application/json

{
  "description": "Update basic properties of application registrations",
  "displayName": "Application Registration Support Administrator",
  "rolePermissions":
    [
        {
            "allowedResourceActions": 
            [
                "microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "isEnabled" : true
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new UnifiedRoleDefinition
{
	Description = "Update basic properties of application registrations",
	DisplayName = "Application Registration Support Administrator",
	RolePermissions = new List<UnifiedRolePermission>
	{
		new UnifiedRolePermission
		{
			AllowedResourceActions = new List<string>
			{
				"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read",
			},
		},
	},
	IsEnabled = true,
};

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

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

CLI

mgc role-management directory role-definitions create --body '{\
  "description": "Update basic properties of application registrations",\
  "displayName": "Application Registration Support Administrator",\
  "rolePermissions":\
    [\
        {\
            "allowedResourceActions": \
            [\
                "microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read"\
            ]\
        }\
    ],\
    "isEnabled" : true\
}\
'

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.NewUnifiedRoleDefinition()
description := "Update basic properties of application registrations"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
displayName := "Application Registration Support Administrator"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 


unifiedRolePermission := graphmodels.NewUnifiedRolePermission()
allowedResourceActions := []string {
	"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read",
}
unifiedRolePermission.SetAllowedResourceActions(allowedResourceActions)

rolePermissions := []graphmodels.UnifiedRolePermissionable {
	unifiedRolePermission,
}
requestBody.SetRolePermissions(rolePermissions)
isEnabled := true
requestBody.SetIsEnabled(&isEnabled) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
roleDefinitions, err := graphClient.RoleManagement().Directory().RoleDefinitions().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);

UnifiedRoleDefinition unifiedRoleDefinition = new UnifiedRoleDefinition();
unifiedRoleDefinition.setDescription("Update basic properties of application registrations");
unifiedRoleDefinition.setDisplayName("Application Registration Support Administrator");
LinkedList<UnifiedRolePermission> rolePermissions = new LinkedList<UnifiedRolePermission>();
UnifiedRolePermission unifiedRolePermission = new UnifiedRolePermission();
LinkedList<String> allowedResourceActions = new LinkedList<String>();
allowedResourceActions.add("microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read");
unifiedRolePermission.setAllowedResourceActions(allowedResourceActions);
rolePermissions.add(unifiedRolePermission);
unifiedRoleDefinition.setRolePermissions(rolePermissions);
unifiedRoleDefinition.setIsEnabled(true);
UnifiedRoleDefinition result = graphClient.roleManagement().directory().roleDefinitions().post(unifiedRoleDefinition);

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 unifiedRoleDefinition = {
  description: 'Update basic properties of application registrations',
  displayName: 'Application Registration Support Administrator',
  rolePermissions: 
    [
        {
            allowedResourceActions: 
            [
                'microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read'
            ]
        }
    ],
    isEnabled: true
};

await client.api('/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions')
	.post(unifiedRoleDefinition);

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\UnifiedRoleDefinition;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\UnifiedRolePermission;


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

$requestBody = new UnifiedRoleDefinition();
$requestBody->setDescription('Update basic properties of application registrations');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Application Registration Support Administrator');
$rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1 = new UnifiedRolePermission();
$rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1->setAllowedResourceActions(['microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read', 	]);
$rolePermissionsArray []= $rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1;
$requestBody->setRolePermissions($rolePermissionsArray);

$requestBody->setIsEnabled(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->roleManagement()->directory()->roleDefinitions()->post($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.Identity.Governance

$params = @{
	description = "Update basic properties of application registrations"
	displayName = "Application Registration Support Administrator"
	rolePermissions = @(
		@{
			allowedResourceActions = @(
			"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read"
		)
	}
)
isEnabled = $true
}

New-MgRoleManagementDirectoryRoleDefinition -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.unified_role_definition import UnifiedRoleDefinition
from msgraph.generated.models.unified_role_permission import UnifiedRolePermission
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = UnifiedRoleDefinition(
	description = "Update basic properties of application registrations",
	display_name = "Application Registration Support Administrator",
	role_permissions = [
		UnifiedRolePermission(
			allowed_resource_actions = [
				"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read",
			],
		),
	],
	is_enabled = True,
)

result = await graph_client.role_management.directory.role_definitions.post(request_body)

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.

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/$metadata#roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions/$entity",
    "id": "d5eec5e0-6992-4c6b-b430-0f833f1a815a",
    "description": "Update basic properties of application registrations",
    "displayName": "Application Registration Support Administrator",
    "isBuiltIn": false,
    "isEnabled": true,
    "templateId": "d5eec5e0-6992-4c6b-b430-0f833f1a815a",
    "version": null,
    "rolePermissions": [
        {
            "allowedResourceActions": [
                "microsoft.directory/applications/standard/read",
                "microsoft.directory/applications/basic/update"
            ],
            "condition": null
        }
    ]
}