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}/legalHolds
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/security/cases/ediscoveryCases/b0073e4e-4184-41c6-9eb7-8c8cc3e2288b/legalHolds
Content-Type: application/json
{
"displayName": "My legalHold with sources",
"description": "Created from Graph API",
"contentQuery": "KQL content query"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models.Security;
var requestBody = new EdiscoveryHoldPolicy
{
DisplayName = "My legalHold with sources",
Description = "Created from Graph API",
ContentQuery = "KQL content query",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Cases.EdiscoveryCases["{ediscoveryCase-id}"].LegalHolds.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models/security"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewEdiscoveryHoldPolicy()
displayName := "My legalHold with sources"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
description := "Created from Graph API"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
contentQuery := "KQL content query"
requestBody.SetContentQuery(&contentQuery)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
legalHolds, err := graphClient.Security().Cases().EdiscoveryCases().ByEdiscoveryCaseId("ediscoveryCase-id").LegalHolds().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.EdiscoveryHoldPolicy ediscoveryHoldPolicy = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.EdiscoveryHoldPolicy();
ediscoveryHoldPolicy.setDisplayName("My legalHold with sources");
ediscoveryHoldPolicy.setDescription("Created from Graph API");
ediscoveryHoldPolicy.setContentQuery("KQL content query");
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryHoldPolicy result = graphClient.security().cases().ediscoveryCases().byEdiscoveryCaseId("{ediscoveryCase-id}").legalHolds().post(ediscoveryHoldPolicy);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Security\EdiscoveryHoldPolicy;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new EdiscoveryHoldPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My legalHold with sources');
$requestBody->setDescription('Created from Graph API');
$requestBody->setContentQuery('KQL content query');
$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->cases()->ediscoveryCases()->byEdiscoveryCaseId('ediscoveryCase-id')->legalHolds()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.security.ediscovery_hold_policy import EdiscoveryHoldPolicy
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EdiscoveryHoldPolicy(
display_name = "My legalHold with sources",
description = "Created from Graph API",
content_query = "KQL content query",
)
result = await graph_client.security.cases.ediscovery_cases.by_ediscovery_case_id('ediscoveryCase-id').legal_holds.post(request_body)