Create synchronizationJob

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create new synchronization job with a default synchronization schema. The job is created in a disabled state. Call Start job to start synchronization.

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 /servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the synchronizationJob object to be created. The only required property is templateId. The templateId property must match one of the templates created for this application/service principal. To find available templates, use List templates.

Response

If successful, returns a 201 Created response code and a synchronizationJob object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs
Content-type: application/json

{ 
    "templateId": "BoxOutDelta"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new SynchronizationJob
{
	TemplateId = "BoxOutDelta",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].Synchronization.Jobs.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 synchronization jobs create --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --body '{\
    "templateId": "BoxOutDelta"\
}\
'

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.NewSynchronizationJob()
templateId := "BoxOutDelta"
requestBody.SetTemplateId(&templateId) 

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

SynchronizationJob synchronizationJob = new SynchronizationJob();
synchronizationJob.setTemplateId("BoxOutDelta");
SynchronizationJob result = graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").synchronization().jobs().post(synchronizationJob);

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 synchronizationJob = {
    templateId: 'BoxOutDelta'
};

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs')
	.post(synchronizationJob);

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\SynchronizationJob;


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

$requestBody = new SynchronizationJob();
$requestBody->setTemplateId('BoxOutDelta');

$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->synchronization()->jobs()->post($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 = @{
	templateId = "BoxOutDelta"
}

New-MgServicePrincipalSynchronizationJob -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -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.synchronization_job import SynchronizationJob
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SynchronizationJob(
	template_id = "BoxOutDelta",
)

result = await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').synchronization.jobs.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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "id": "{jobId}",
    "templateId": "BoxOutDelta",
    "schedule": {
        "expiration": null,
        "interval": "P10675199DT2H48M5.4775807S",
        "state": "Disabled"
    },
    "status": {
        "countSuccessiveCompleteFailures": 0,
        "escrowsPruned": false,
        "synchronizedEntryCountByType": [],
        "code": "NotConfigured",
        "lastExecution": null,
        "lastSuccessfulExecution": null,
        "lastSuccessfulExecutionWithExports": null,
        "steadyStateFirstAchievedTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "steadyStateLastAchievedTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "quarantine": null,
        "troubleshootingUrl": null
    }
}