Add sponsor

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Assign a user a sponsor. Sponsors are users and groups that are responsible for this guest user's privileges in the tenant and for keeping the guest user's information and access up to date.

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)	User.ReadWrite.All	AgentIdUser.ReadWrite.All, AgentIdUser.ReadWrite.IdentityParentedBy, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	User.ReadWrite.All	AgentIdUser.ReadWrite.All, AgentIdUser.ReadWrite.IdentityParentedBy, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Important

For delegated access using work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/users/sponsors/update role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

Directory Writers
User Administrator
Agent ID Administrator - For agent users

HTTP request

POST /users/{id}/sponsors/$ref

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 object and pass an @odata.id parameter with the read URL of the user or group object to be added.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request. The request body is a JSON object with an @odata.id parameter and the read URL for the user object to be assigned as a sponsor.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/d8ab5060-f636-4cff-ae97-d4687f5c83f3/sponsors/$ref
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Sponsors.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Sponsors().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}");
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").sponsors().ref().post(referenceCreate);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const directoryObject = {
  '@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}'
};

await client.api('/users/d8ab5060-f636-4cff-ae97-d4687f5c83f3/sponsors/$ref')
	.version('beta')
	.post(directoryObject);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ReferenceCreate;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}');

$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->sponsors()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
	odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/{user-id}",
)

await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').sponsors.ref.post(request_body)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Request

The following example shows a request. The request body is a JSON object with an @odata.id parameter and the read URL for the group object to be assigned as a sponsor.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/d8ab5060-f636-4cff-ae97-d4687f5c83f3/sponsors/$ref
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new ReferenceCreate
{
	OdataId = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Sponsors.Ref.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewReferenceCreate()
odataId := "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}"
requestBody.SetOdataId(&odataId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Sponsors().Ref().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate referenceCreate = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ReferenceCreate();
referenceCreate.setOdataId("https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}");
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").sponsors().ref().post(referenceCreate);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const directoryObject = {
  '@odata.id': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}'
};

await client.api('/users/d8ab5060-f636-4cff-ae97-d4687f5c83f3/sponsors/$ref')
	.version('beta')
	.post(directoryObject);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ReferenceCreate;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ReferenceCreate();
$requestBody->setOdataId('https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}');

$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->sponsors()->ref()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.reference_create import ReferenceCreate
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceCreate(
	odata_id = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/{group-id}",
)

await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').sponsors.ref.post(request_body)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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Examples

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