Create servicePrincipal

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new servicePrincipal object.

Important

Adding passwordCredential when creating servicePrincipals is not supported. Use the addPassword method to add passwords or secrets for a servicePrincipal.

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

For multi-tenant apps, the calling user must also be in at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles:

• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator

For single-tenant apps where the calling user is a non-admin user but is the owner of the backing application, the user must have the Application Developer role.

HTTP request

POST /servicePrincipals

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 a servicePrincipal object. The request body must contain appId.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals
Content-type: application/json

{
  "appId": "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ServicePrincipal
{
	AppId = "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12",
};

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

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

CLI

mgc service-principals create --body '{\
  "appId": "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12"\
}\
'

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.NewServicePrincipal()
appId := "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12"
requestBody.SetAppId(&appId) 

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

ServicePrincipal servicePrincipal = new ServicePrincipal();
servicePrincipal.setAppId("65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12");
ServicePrincipal result = graphClient.servicePrincipals().post(servicePrincipal);

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 servicePrincipal = {
  appId: '65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12'
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals')
	.post(servicePrincipal);

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\ServicePrincipal;


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

$requestBody = new ServicePrincipal();
$requestBody->setAppId('65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12');

$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->post($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.Applications

$params = @{
	appId = "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12"
}

New-MgServicePrincipal -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.service_principal import ServicePrincipal
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ServicePrincipal(
	app_id = "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12",
)

result = await graph_client.service_principals.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/$metadata#servicePrincipals/$entity",
    "id": "59e617e5-e447-4adc-8b88-00af644d7c92",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "accountEnabled": true,
    "appDisplayName": "My App",
    "appId": "65415bb1-9267-4313-bbf5-ae259732ee12",
    "appOwnerOrganizationId": "1bc1c026-2f7b-48a5-98da-afa2fd8bc7bc",
    "appRoleAssignmentRequired": false,
    "displayName": "foo",
    "homepage": null,
    "logoutUrl": null,
    "publisherName": "Contoso",
    "replyUrls": [],
    "servicePrincipalNames": [
        "f1bd758f-4a1a-4b71-aa20-a248a22a8928"
    ],
    "tags": [],
    "addIns": [],
    "appRoles": [],
    "info": {
        "termsOfServiceUrl": null,
        "supportUrl": null,
        "privacyStatementUrl": null,
        "marketingUrl": null,
        "logoUrl": null
    },
    "keyCredentials": [],
    "oauth2PermissionScopes": [],
    "passwordCredentials": []
}