title	Add owner
description	Add an owner to an application.
author	Jackson-Woods
ms.localizationpriority	medium
ms.subservice	entra-applications
doc_type	apiPageType
ms.date	08/06/2024

Add owner

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add an owner to an application. Application owners can be individual users, the associated service principal, or another 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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Note: Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy isn't sufficient to add another owner. Consent also to Application.ReadWrite.All.

Important

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. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

Hybrid Identity Administrator
Cloud Application Administrator
Application Administrator

HTTP request

You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

POST /applications/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners/$ref

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the identifier of the directory object to be assigned as owner.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Example

Request

The following example shows the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{id}/owners/$ref
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/{id}"
}