synchronization: acquireAccessToken

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Acquire an OAuth access token to authorize the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to provision users into 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
✅	✅	✅	❌

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator
• Hybrid Identity Administrator - to configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

HTTP request

POST /applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
POST /servicePrincipals/{servicePrincipalsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken

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 JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter	Type	Description
credentials	synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair collection	Represents a single secret value.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "credentials": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair"
    }
  ]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Applications.Item.Synchronization.AcquireAccessToken;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody
{
	Credentials = new List<SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair>
	{
		new SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair
		{
			OdataType = "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair",
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Applications["{application-id}"].Synchronization.AcquireAccessToken.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc applications synchronization acquire-access-token post --application-id {application-id} --body '{\
  "credentials": [\
    {\
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair"\
    }\
  ]\
}\
'

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"
	  graphapplications "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/applications"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphapplications.NewAcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody()


synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair := graphmodels.NewSynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair()

credentials := []graphmodels.SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePairable {
	synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair,
}
requestBody.SetCredentials(credentials)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").Synchronization().AcquireAccessToken().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.applications.item.synchronization.acquireaccesstoken.AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody acquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.applications.item.synchronization.acquireaccesstoken.AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair> credentials = new LinkedList<SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair>();
SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair = new SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair();
synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair.setOdataType("microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair");
credentials.add(synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair);
acquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody.setCredentials(credentials);
graphClient.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").synchronization().acquireAccessToken().post(acquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody);

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 acquireAccessToken = {
  credentials: [
    {
      '@odata.type': 'microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair'
    }
  ]
};

await client.api('/applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken')
	.post(acquireAccessToken);

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\Applications\Item\Synchronization\AcquireAccessToken\AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair;


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

$requestBody = new AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody();
$credentialsSynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair1 = new SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair();
$credentialsSynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair1->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair');
$credentialsArray []= $credentialsSynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair1;
$requestBody->setCredentials($credentialsArray);


$graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->synchronization()->acquireAccessToken()->post($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 = @{
	credentials = @(
		@{
			"@odata.type" = "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair"
		}
	)
}

Get-MgApplicationSynchronizationAccessToken -ApplicationId $applicationId -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.applications.item.synchronization.acquire_access_token.acquire_access_token_post_request_body import AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.synchronization_secret_key_string_value_pair import SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AcquireAccessTokenPostRequestBody(
	credentials = [
		SynchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair(
			odata_type = "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair",
		),
	],
)

await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').synchronization.acquire_access_token.post(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content