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.

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"
    }
}

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
        }
    }
}