title	Assign appliesTo
description	Assign a policy to application or service principal object.
ms.localizationpriority	medium
author	aricrowe57
ms.subservice	entra-sign-in
doc_type	apiPageType
ms.date	07/29/2024

Assign appliesTo

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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Assign an appManagementPolicy policy object to an application or service principal object. The application or service principal adopts this policy over the tenant-wide tenantAppManagementPolicy setting. Only one policy object can be assigned to an application or service principal.

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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.

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HTTP request

POST /applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$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, provide a reference to a single policy object from the appManagementPolicies collection.

Response

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

Examples

Example 1: Assign an appManagementPolicy to an application object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to an application.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
 "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
}

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Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal object

Request

The following example shows a request to assign an appManagementPolicy to a service principal.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/servicePrincipals/{id}/appManagementPolicies/$ref

{
 "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/appManagementPolicies/{id}"
}