Add additional sources

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Create a new additional source associated with an eDiscovery search.

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

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/searches/{ediscoverySearchId}/additionalSources

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 dataSource object.

You can specify the following properties when you create a dataSource.

Note: Either email or site is required, but not both.

Property	Type	Description
email	string	SMTP address of the mailbox. To get the email address of a group, use List groups or Get group. You can query by the name of the group using $filter; for example, https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups?$filter=displayName eq 'secret group'&$select=mail,id,displayName.
site	string	URL of the site; for example, https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HumanResources.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created and a microsoft.graph.security.dataSource object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Create an additional eDiscovery source from a site source

Request

The following example shows a request that creates an eDiscovery source from a site source.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/searches/{ediscoverySearchId}/additionalSources

{
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.security.siteSource",
    "site": {
        "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite"
    }
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new SiteSource
{
	OdataType = "microsoft.graph.security.siteSource",
	Site = new Site
	{
		WebUrl = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Cases.EdiscoveryCases["{ediscoveryCase-id}"].Searches["{ediscoverySearch-id}"].AdditionalSources.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc security cases ediscovery-cases searches additional-sources create --ediscovery-case-id {ediscoveryCase-id} --ediscovery-search-id {ediscoverySearch-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"
	  graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models/security"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewDataSource()
site := graphmodels.NewSite()
webUrl := "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite"
site.SetWebUrl(&webUrl) 
requestBody.SetSite(site)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
additionalSources, err := graphClient.Security().Cases().EdiscoveryCases().ByEdiscoveryCaseId("ediscoveryCase-id").Searches().ByEdiscoverySearchId("ediscoverySearch-id").AdditionalSources().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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.security.SiteSource dataSource = new com.microsoft.graph.models.security.SiteSource();
dataSource.setOdataType("microsoft.graph.security.siteSource");
Site site = new Site();
site.setWebUrl("https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite");
dataSource.setSite(site);
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.DataSource result = graphClient.security().cases().ediscoveryCases().byEdiscoveryCaseId("{ediscoveryCase-id}").searches().byEdiscoverySearchId("{ediscoverySearch-id}").additionalSources().post(dataSource);

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 dataSource = {
    '@odata.type': 'microsoft.graph.security.siteSource',
    site: {
        webUrl: 'https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite'
    }
};

await client.api('/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/searches/{ediscoverySearchId}/additionalSources')
	.post(dataSource);

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\Security\SiteSource;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Site;


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

$requestBody = new SiteSource();
$requestBody->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.security.siteSource');
$site = new Site();
$site->setWebUrl('https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite');
$requestBody->setSite($site);

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->cases()->ediscoveryCases()->byEdiscoveryCaseId('ediscoveryCase-id')->searches()->byEdiscoverySearchId('ediscoverySearch-id')->additionalSources()->post($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.Security

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "microsoft.graph.security.siteSource"
	site = @{
		webUrl = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite"
	}
}

New-MgSecurityCaseEdiscoveryCaseSearchAdditionalSource -EdiscoveryCaseId $ediscoveryCaseId -EdiscoverySearchId $ediscoverySearchId -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.security.site_source import SiteSource
from msgraph.generated.models.site import Site
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SiteSource(
	odata_type = "microsoft.graph.security.siteSource",
	site = Site(
		web_url = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SecretSite",
	),
)

result = await graph_client.security.cases.ediscovery_cases.by_ediscovery_case_id('ediscoveryCase-id').searches.by_ediscovery_search_id('ediscoverySearch-id').additional_sources.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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases('b0073e4e-4184-41c6-9eb7-8c8cc3e2288b')/searches('c61a5860-d634-4d14-aea7-d82b6f4eb7af')/additionalSources/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.security.siteSource",
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/46303732-3434-4630-3832-363333363441",
    "displayName": "Design - top secret",
    "createdDateTime": "2022-07-15T22:45:36.1096267Z",
    "holdStatus": "0",
    "id": "46303732-3434-4630-3832-363333363441",
    "createdBy": {
        "application": null,
        "user": {
            "id": null,
            "displayName": null
        }
    }
}

Example 2: Create an additional eDiscovery source from a user source

Request

The following example shows a request that creates an eDiscovery source from a user source.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/17011798-ca63-4282-9cb3-0086f1042bfc/searches/2f5cc5a6-9728-4ba0-acfa-edce25e91244/additionalSources

{
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.security.userSource",
    "email": "admin@edbig.onmicrosoft.com"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 Created

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases('17011798-ca63-4282-9cb3-0086f1042bfc')/searches('2f5cc5a6-9728-4ba0-acfa-edce25e91244')/additionalSources/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.security.userSource",
    "displayName": "eDisco Big",
    "createdDateTime": "2024-11-19T20:11:11.5950513Z",
    "holdStatus": "0",
    "id": "5933247d-7011-494d-b9a6-65a3870d88fa",
    "email": "admin@edbig.onmicrosoft.com",
    "includedSources": "mailbox,site",
    "siteWebUrl": "https://edbig-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_edbig_onmicrosoft_com",
    "createdBy": {
        "application": null,
        "user": {
            "id": null,
            "displayName": null
        }
    }
}