Create multiTenantOrganization

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new multitenant organization. By default, the creator tenant becomes an owner tenant upon successful creation. Only owner tenants can manage a multitenant organization.

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) MultiTenantOrganization.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application MultiTenantOrganization.ReadWrite.All Not available.

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. Security Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

PUT /tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the multiTenantOrganization object.

You can specify the following properties when creating a multiTenantOrganization.

Property Type Description
displayName String Display name of the multitenant organization. Required.
description String Description of the multitenant organization. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a multiTenantOrganization object in the response body.

Examples

The following example creates a new multitenant organization.

Request

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Contoso organization",
  "description": "Multitenant organization between Contoso, Fabrikam, and Woodgrove Bank"
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#tenantRelationships/multiTenantOrganization/$entity",
    "id": "6d8b39e5-039a-4034-bf3a-e0b4f8cd60b6",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-05-26T22:05:23Z",
    "displayName": "Contoso organization",
    "description": "Multitenant organization between Contoso, Fabrikam, and Woodgrove Bank",
    "state": "active"
}