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title Create User
description Use this API to create a new User.
author yyuank
ms.reviewer iamut
ms.localizationpriority high
ms.subservice entra-users
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 10/22/2024

Create User

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new user. The request body contains the user to create. At a minimum, you must specify the required properties for the user. You can optionally specify any other writable properties.

Note

To create external users as part of B2B collaboration with your organization, use the invitation API. To create a customer, citizen, or business partner in Microsoft Entra External ID in external tenants, see Example 3: Create a customer account.

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Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /users

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of user object.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create a user. If you're including an identities property for the user you're creating, not all the properties listed are required. For a social identity, none of the properties are required.

Parameter Type Description
accountEnabled Boolean true if the account is enabled; otherwise, false.
displayName String The name to display in the address book for the user.
onPremisesImmutableId String Required only when creating a new user account if you are using a federated domain for the user's userPrincipalName (UPN) property.
mailNickname String The mail alias for the user.
passwordProfile PasswordProfile The password profile for the user.
userPrincipalName String The user principal name (someuser@contoso.com). It's an Internet-style login name for the user based on the Internet standard RFC 822. By convention, this should map to the user's email name. The general format is alias@domain, where domain must be present in the tenant's collection of verified domains. The verified domains for the tenant can be accessed from the verifiedDomains property of organization.
NOTE: This property cannot contain accent characters. Only the following characters are allowed A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, ' . - _ ! # ^ ~. For the complete list of allowed characters, see username policies.

Because the user resource supports extensions, you can use the POST operation and add custom properties with your own data to the user instance while creating it.

Note

Federated users created via this API are forced to sign in every 12 hours by default. For information about how to change this, see Exceptions for token lifetimes.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and user object in the response body.

Example

Example 1: Create a user

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
Content-type: application/json

{
  "accountEnabled": true,
  "displayName": "Adele Vance",
  "mailNickname": "AdeleV",
  "userPrincipalName": "AdeleV@contoso.com",
  "passwordProfile" : {
    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
    "password": "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"
  }
}

C#

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In the request body, supply a JSON representation of user object.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
    "id": "87d349ed-44d7-43e1-9a83-5f2406dee5bd",
    "businessPhones": [],
    "displayName": "Adele Vance",
    "givenName": "Adele",
    "jobTitle": "Product Marketing Manager",
    "mail": "AdeleV@contoso.com",
    "mobilePhone": "+1 425 555 0109",
    "officeLocation": "18/2111",
    "preferredLanguage": "en-US",
    "surname": "Vance",
    "userPrincipalName": "AdeleV@contoso.com"
}

Example 2: Create a user with social and local account identities in Azure AD B2C

Create a new user, with a local account identity with a sign-in name, an email address as sign-in, and with a social identity. This example is typically used for migration scenarios in Azure AD B2C tenants.

Note

For local account identities, password expirations must be disabled, and force change password at next sign-in must also be disabled.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "John Smith",
  "identities": [
    {
      "signInType": "userName",
      "issuer": "contoso.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "johnsmith"
    },
    {
      "signInType": "emailAddress",
      "issuer": "contoso.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "jsmith@yahoo.com"
    },
    {
      "signInType": "federated",
      "issuer": "facebook.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "5eecb0cd"
    }
  ],
  "passwordProfile" : {
    "password": "password-value",
    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": false
  },
  "passwordPolicies": "DisablePasswordExpiration"
}

C#

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Java

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Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
  "displayName": "John Smith",
  "id": "4c7be08b-361f-41a8-b1ef-1712f7a3dfb2",
  "identities": [
    {
      "signInType": "userName",
      "issuer": "contoso.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "johnsmith"
    },
    {
      "signInType": "emailAddress",
      "issuer": "contoso.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "jsmith@yahoo.com"
    },
    {
      "signInType": "federated",
      "issuer": "facebook.com",
      "issuerAssignedId": "5eecb0cd"
    }
  ],
  "passwordPolicies": "DisablePasswordExpiration"
}

Example 3: Create a customer account in external tenants

This example shows how to create a customer account in Microsoft Entra External ID in external tenants.

Note

For local account identities, password expirations must be disabled.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "Test User",
    "identities": [
        {
            "signInType": "emailAddress",
            "issuer": "contoso.onmicrosoft.com",
            "issuerAssignedId": "adelev@adatum.com"
        }
    ],
    "mail": "adelev@adatum.com",
    "passwordProfile": {
        "password": "passwordValue",
        "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true
    },
    "passwordPolicies": "DisablePasswordExpiration"
}

C#

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Go

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Java

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JavaScript

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PHP

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PowerShell

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Python

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Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
    "id": "daabd280-3978-4d29-acce-d677b9cf2e4d",
    "businessPhones": [],
    "displayName": "Test User",
    "givenName": null,
    "jobTitle": null,
    "mail": "adelev@adatum.com",
    "mobilePhone": null,
    "officeLocation": null,
    "preferredLanguage": null,
    "surname": null,
    "userPrincipalName": "daabd280-3978-4d29-acce-d677b9cf2e4d@contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
}

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