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)
RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory
Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory
Directory.ReadWrite.All
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. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/roleManagement/directory/roleDefinitions
Content-type: application/json
{
"description": "Update basic properties of application registrations",
"displayName": "Application Registration Support Administrator",
"rolePermissions":
[
{
"allowedResourceActions":
[
"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read"
]
}
],
"isEnabled" : true
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new UnifiedRoleDefinition
{
Description = "Update basic properties of application registrations",
DisplayName = "Application Registration Support Administrator",
RolePermissions = new List<UnifiedRolePermission>
{
new UnifiedRolePermission
{
AllowedResourceActions = new List<string>
{
"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read",
},
},
},
IsEnabled = true,
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.RoleManagement.Directory.RoleDefinitions.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
UnifiedRoleDefinition unifiedRoleDefinition = new UnifiedRoleDefinition();
unifiedRoleDefinition.setDescription("Update basic properties of application registrations");
unifiedRoleDefinition.setDisplayName("Application Registration Support Administrator");
LinkedList<UnifiedRolePermission> rolePermissions = new LinkedList<UnifiedRolePermission>();
UnifiedRolePermission unifiedRolePermission = new UnifiedRolePermission();
LinkedList<String> allowedResourceActions = new LinkedList<String>();
allowedResourceActions.add("microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read");
unifiedRolePermission.setAllowedResourceActions(allowedResourceActions);
rolePermissions.add(unifiedRolePermission);
unifiedRoleDefinition.setRolePermissions(rolePermissions);
unifiedRoleDefinition.setIsEnabled(true);
UnifiedRoleDefinition result = graphClient.roleManagement().directory().roleDefinitions().post(unifiedRoleDefinition);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\UnifiedRoleDefinition;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\UnifiedRolePermission;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new UnifiedRoleDefinition();
$requestBody->setDescription('Update basic properties of application registrations');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Application Registration Support Administrator');
$rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1 = new UnifiedRolePermission();
$rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1->setAllowedResourceActions(['microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read', ]);
$rolePermissionsArray []= $rolePermissionsUnifiedRolePermission1;
$requestBody->setRolePermissions($rolePermissionsArray);
$requestBody->setIsEnabled(true);
$result = $graphServiceClient->roleManagement()->directory()->roleDefinitions()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.unified_role_definition import UnifiedRoleDefinition
from msgraph.generated.models.unified_role_permission import UnifiedRolePermission
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = UnifiedRoleDefinition(
description = "Update basic properties of application registrations",
display_name = "Application Registration Support Administrator",
role_permissions = [
UnifiedRolePermission(
allowed_resource_actions = [
"microsoft.directory/applications/basic/read",
],
),
],
is_enabled = True,
)
result = await graph_client.role_management.directory.role_definitions.post(request_body)