Activate a directory role. To read a directory role or update its members, it must first be activated in the tenant.
The Company Administrators and the implicit user directory roles (User, Guest User, and Restricted Guest User roles) are activated by default. To access and assign members to other directory roles, you must first activate it with its corresponding directory role template ID.
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
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory
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. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles
Content-type: application/json
{
"roleTemplateId": "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new DirectoryRole
{
RoleTemplateId = "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.DirectoryRoles.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.NewDirectoryRole()
roleTemplateId := "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"
requestBody.SetRoleTemplateId(&roleTemplateId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
directoryRoles, err := graphClient.DirectoryRoles().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
DirectoryRole directoryRole = new DirectoryRole();
directoryRole.setRoleTemplateId("fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1");
DirectoryRole result = graphClient.directoryRoles().post(directoryRole);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\DirectoryRole;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new DirectoryRole();
$requestBody->setRoleTemplateId('fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1');
$result = $graphServiceClient->directoryRoles()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.directory_role import DirectoryRole
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DirectoryRole(
role_template_id = "fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1",
)
result = await graph_client.directory_roles.post(request_body)