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)
Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
Not supported.
Not supported.
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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.
Intune Administrator
Windows 365 Administrator
HTTP request
You can address the device using either its id or deviceId.
POST /devices/{id}/registeredOwners/$ref
POST /devices(deviceId='{deviceId}')/registeredOwners/$ref
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices/{id}/registeredOwners/$ref
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Devices["{device-id}"].RegisteredOwners.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-id").RegisteredOwners().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}");
graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").registeredOwners().ref().post(referenceCreate);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ReferenceCreate;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}');
$graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->registeredOwners()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}",
)
await graph_client.devices.by_device_id('device-id').registered_owners.ref.post(request_body)