Namespace: microsoft.graph
Discover the latest schema definition for provisioning to an application.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
| Global service |
US Government L4 |
US Government L5 (DOD) |
China operated by 21Vianet |
| ✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
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.
| Permission type |
Least privileged permissions |
Higher privileged permissions |
| Delegated (work or school account) |
Directory.ReadWrite.All |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
| Application |
Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy |
Directory.ReadWrite.All |
Important
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or 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.
- Application Administrator
- Cloud Application Administrator
- Hybrid Identity Administrator - to configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
HTTP request
POST /servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/schema/directories/{directoryId}/discover
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response with a directoryDefinition object.
Example
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/schema/directories/{directoryId}/discover
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].Synchronization.Jobs["{synchronizationJob-id}"].Schema.Directories["{directoryDefinition-id}"].Discover.PostAsync();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc service-principals synchronization jobs schema directories discover post --service-principal-id {servicePrincipal-id} --synchronization-job-id {synchronizationJob-id} --directory-definition-id {directoryDefinition-id}
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
//other-imports
)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
discover, err := graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-id").Synchronization().Jobs().BySynchronizationJobId("synchronizationJob-id").Schema().Directories().ByDirectoryDefinitionId("directoryDefinition-id").Discover().Post(context.Background(), nil)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
var result = graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").synchronization().jobs().bySynchronizationJobId("{synchronizationJob-id}").schema().directories().byDirectoryDefinitionId("{directoryDefinition-id}").discover().post();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
await client.api('/servicePrincipals/{id}/synchronization/jobs/{jobId}/schema/directories/{directoryId}/discover')
.post();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$result = $graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->synchronization()->jobs()->bySynchronizationJobId('synchronizationJob-id')->schema()->directories()->byDirectoryDefinitionId('directoryDefinition-id')->discover()->post()->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Applications
Find-MgServicePrincipalSynchronizationJobSchemaDirectory -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -SynchronizationJobId $synchronizationJobId -DirectoryDefinitionId $directoryDefinitionId
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
result = await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').synchronization.jobs.by_synchronization_job_id('synchronizationJob-id').schema.directories.by_directory_definition_id('directoryDefinition-id').discover.post()
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Response
The following example shows the response.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"discoverabilities": "AttributeNames, AttributeDataTypes",
"discoveryDateTime": "2019-03-20T15:47:50.4707552Z",
"id": "directoryDefinitionId",
"objects": [{
"name": "User",
"attributes": [{
"name": "Id",
"type": "String"
}, {
"name": "FirstName",
"type": "String"
},
{
"name": "CustomExendedAttribute",
"type": "String"
}
]
}],
"version": "bf8c03ac-d45e-47fe-b3a1-711a9418b2b1"
}