Assign a manager

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Assign a user's manager.

Note: You cannot assign direct reports; instead, use this API.

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

HTTP request

PUT /users/{id}/manager/$ref

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON object and pass an @odata.id parameter with the read URL of the directoryObject or user object to be added.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request. The request body is a JSON object with an @odata.id parameter and the read URL for the user object to be assigned as a manager.

HTTP

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/10f17b99-784c-4526-8747-aec8a3159d6a/manager/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new ReferenceUpdate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Manager.Ref.PutAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta users manager ref put --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceUpdate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Manager().Ref().Put(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.beta.models.ReferenceUpdate referenceUpdate = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceUpdate();
referenceUpdate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0");
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").manager().ref().put(referenceUpdate);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 directoryObject = {
    '@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0'
};

await client.api('/users/10f17b99-784c-4526-8747-aec8a3159d6a/manager/$ref')
	.version('beta')
	.put(directoryObject);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ReferenceUpdate;


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

$requestBody = new ReferenceUpdate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0');

$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->manager()->ref()->put($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Users

$params = @{
	"@odata.id" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0"
}

Set-MgBetaUserManagerByRef -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.reference_update import ReferenceUpdate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceUpdate(
	odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0",
)

await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').manager.ref.put(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content