title	servicePrincipal: Add owner
description	Use this API to add an owner for the service principal.
ms.localizationpriority	high
doc_type	apiPageType
ms.subservice	entra-applications
author	Jackson-Woods
ms.date	07/30/2024

servicePrincipal: Add owner

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to add an owner for the servicePrincipal. Service principal owners can be users, the service principal itself, or other service principals.

[!INCLUDE national-cloud-support]

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.

[!INCLUDE permissions-table]

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 service principal 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 /servicePrincipals/{id}/owners/$ref
POST /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')/owners/$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 representation of directoryObject object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code and a directoryObject object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

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

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