Create custodians

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Create a new ediscoveryCustodian object. After the custodian object is created, you will need to create the custodian's userSource to reference their mailbox and OneDrive for Business site.

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) eDiscovery.Read.All eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application eDiscovery.Read.All eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians

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 the ediscoveryCustodian object.

You can specify the following properties when you create an ediscoveryCustodian.

Property Type Description
email String Custodian's primary SMTP address. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an microsoft.graph.security.ediscoveryCustodian object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/{ediscoveryCaseId}/custodians
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "email":"AdeleV@contoso.com",
}

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/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases('4c8f8f70-7785-4bd4-b296-c98376a2c5e1')/custodians/$entity",
     "status": "active",
     "holdStatus": "applied",
     "createdDateTime": "2022-05-23T00:58:19.0702426Z",
     "lastModifiedDateTime": "2022-05-23T00:58:19.0702436Z",
     "releasedDateTime": null,
     "id": "0053a61a3b6c42738f7606791716a22a",
     "displayName": "Adele Vance",
     "email": "AdeleV@contoso.com",
     "acknowledgedDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}