directoryRole resource type

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Represents a Microsoft Entra directory role. Microsoft Entra directory roles are also known as administrator roles. For more information about directory (administrator) roles, see Assigning administrator roles in Microsoft Entra ID. With the Microsoft Graph, you can assign users to directory roles to grant them the permissions of the target role. To read a directory role or update its members, it must first be activated in the tenant. Only the Company Administrators directory role is activated by default. To activate other available directory roles, you send a POST request with the ID of the directoryRoleTemplate on which the directory role is based. List directory role templates to get all the other available directory roles. Inherits from directoryObject.

By default, directory roles are scoped to be tenant-wide. However, directory roles (currently only the user account admin and helpdesk admin) may also be scoped to administrative units.

This resource supports:

  • Using delta query to track incremental additions, deletions, and updates, by providing a delta function.

Methods

Method Return Type Description
Get directoryRole directoryRole Read properties and relationships of directoryRole object.
List directoryRoles directoryRole collection List the directory roles that are activated in the tenant.
Add member directoryObject Add a user to the directory role by posting to the members navigation property.
List members directoryObject collection Get the users that are members of the directory role from the members navigation property.
Remove a member directoryObject Remove a user from the directory role.
Activate directoryRole directoryRole Activate a directory role.
List scopeMembers scopedRoleMembership collection List the members of this directory role that are scoped to administrative units, through the scopedRoleMembership resource collection.
delta directoryRole collection Get incremental changes for directory roles.

Properties

Property Type Description
description String The description for the directory role. Read-only. Supports $filter (eq), $search, $select.
displayName String The display name for the directory role. Read-only. Supports $filter (eq), $search, $select.
id String The unique identifier for the directory role. Inherited from directoryObject. Key, Not nullable, Read-only. Supports $filter (eq), $select.
roleTemplateId String The id of the directoryRoleTemplate that this role is based on. The property must be specified when activating a directory role in a tenant with a POST operation. After the directory role has been activated, the property is read only. Supports $filter (eq), $select.

Relationships

Relationship Type Description
members directoryObject collection Users that are members of this directory role. HTTP Methods: GET, POST, DELETE. Read-only. Nullable. Supports $expand.
scopedMembers scopedRoleMembership collection Members of this directory role that are scoped to administrative units. Read-only. Nullable.

JSON representation

Here is a JSON representation of the resource

{
  "description": "string",
  "displayName": "string",
  "id": "string (identifier)",
  "roleTemplateId": "string"
}