Add owner

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add an owner to an application. Currently, only individual users are supported as owners of applications.

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) Application.ReadWrite.All and Directory.Read.All Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy and Directory.Read.All Directory.Read.All and Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Note: Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy will not be sufficient to add another owner. Consent also to Application.ReadWrite.All.

HTTP request

You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

POST /applications/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply the identifier of the directory object to be assigned as owner.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content