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Update roleAssignment

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Note: The Microsoft Graph API for Intune requires an active Intune license for the tenant.

Update the properties of a roleAssignment object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application DeviceManagementRBAC.ReadWrite.All

HTTP Request

PATCH /deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments/{roleAssignmentId}

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation for the roleAssignment object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create the roleAssignment.

Property Type Description
id String The unique identifier of the request. This ID is assigned at when the entity is created. Read-only.
displayName String Indicates the display name of the role assignment. For example: 'Houston administrators and users'. Max length is 128 characters.
description String Indicates the description of the role assignment. For example: 'All administrators, employees and scope tags associated with the Houston office.' Max length is 1024 characters.
resourceScopes String collection Indicates the list of resource scope security group Entra IDs. For example: {dec942f4-6777-4998-96b4-522e383b08e2}.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated roleAssignment object in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/deviceManagement/roleDefinitions/{roleDefinitionId}/roleAssignments/{roleAssignmentId}
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 193

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 242

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.roleAssignment",
  "id": "b3234d24-4d24-b323-244d-23b3244d23b3",
  "displayName": "Display Name value",
  "description": "Description value",
  "resourceScopes": [
    "Resource Scopes value"
  ]
}