Create multiTenantOrganization

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new multitenant organization. By default, the creator tenant becomes an owner tenant upon successful creation. Only owner tenants can manage a multitenant organization.

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Security Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

PUT /tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization

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 multiTenantOrganization object.

You can specify the following properties when creating a multiTenantOrganization.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Display name of the multitenant organization. Required.
description	String	Description of the multitenant organization. Optional.

Response

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

Examples

The following example creates a new multitenant organization.

Request

HTTP

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Contoso organization",
  "description": "Multitenant organization between Contoso, Fabrikam, and Woodgrove Bank"
}

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const multiTenantOrganization = {
  displayName: 'Contoso organization',
  description: 'Multitenant organization between Contoso, Fabrikam, and Woodgrove Bank'
};

await client.api('/tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization')
	.put(multiTenantOrganization);

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization/$entity",
    "id": "6d8b39e5-039a-4034-bf3a-e0b4f8cd60b6",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-05-26T22:05:23Z",
    "displayName": "Contoso organization",
    "description": "Multitenant organization between Contoso, Fabrikam, and Woodgrove Bank",
    "state": "active"
}