title	synchronization: acquireAccessToken
description	Acquire an OAuth Access token to authorize the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to provision users into an application
author	ArvindHarinder1
ms.localizationpriority	medium
ms.subservice	entra-applications
doc_type	apiPageType
ms.date	04/04/2024

synchronization: acquireAccessToken

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Acquire an OAuth access token to authorize the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to provision users into an application.

[!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]

[!INCLUDE rbac-synchronization-apis]

HTTP request

POST /applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
POST /servicePrincipals/{servicePrincipalsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken

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 JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter	Type	Description
credentials	synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair collection	Represents a single secret value.

Response

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

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{applicationsId}/synchronization/acquireAccessToken
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "credentials": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.synchronizationSecretKeyStringValuePair"
    }
  ]
}