Create sharePointProtectionPolicy

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a protection policy for a M365 service SharePoint. Policy will be created in inactive state. User can also provide a list of protection units under the policy.

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)	BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	BackupRestore-Configuration.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /solutions/backupRestore/sharePointProtectionPolicies/

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

You can specify the following properties when creating a sharePointProtectionPolicy object.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Name of the SharePoint Protection Policy. Optional.
siteProtectionUnits	Collection(siteProtectionUnit)	Collection of the siteProtectionUnits to be added to the sharePointProtectionPolicy object. Required. Refer to site for the format of siteId.

Response

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

For a list of possible error responses, see Backup Storage API error responses.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/sharePointProtectionPolicies

{
 "displayName": "SharePoint Protection Policy",
 "siteProtectionUnits": [
 {
 "siteId": "contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f"
 },
 {
 "siteId": "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740"
 },
 {
 "siteId": "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
 }
 ]
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new SharePointProtectionPolicy
{
	DisplayName = "SharePoint Protection Policy",
	SiteProtectionUnits = new List<SiteProtectionUnit>
	{
		new SiteProtectionUnit
		{
			SiteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f",
		},
		new SiteProtectionUnit
		{
			SiteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740",
		},
		new SiteProtectionUnit
		{
			SiteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851",
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Solutions.BackupRestore.SharePointProtectionPolicies.PostAsync(requestBody);

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"
	 graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	 //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewSharePointProtectionPolicy()
displayName := "SharePoint Protection Policy"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 


siteProtectionUnit := graphmodels.NewSiteProtectionUnit()
siteId := "contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f"
siteProtectionUnit.SetSiteId(&siteId) 
siteProtectionUnit1 := graphmodels.NewSiteProtectionUnit()
siteId := "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740"
siteProtectionUnit1.SetSiteId(&siteId) 
siteProtectionUnit2 := graphmodels.NewSiteProtectionUnit()
siteId := "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
siteProtectionUnit2.SetSiteId(&siteId) 

siteProtectionUnits := []graphmodels.SiteProtectionUnitable {
	siteProtectionUnit,
	siteProtectionUnit1,
	siteProtectionUnit2,
}
requestBody.SetSiteProtectionUnits(siteProtectionUnits)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
sharePointProtectionPolicies, err := graphClient.Solutions().BackupRestore().SharePointProtectionPolicies().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, 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);

SharePointProtectionPolicy sharePointProtectionPolicy = new SharePointProtectionPolicy();
sharePointProtectionPolicy.setDisplayName("SharePoint Protection Policy");
LinkedList<SiteProtectionUnit> siteProtectionUnits = new LinkedList<SiteProtectionUnit>();
SiteProtectionUnit siteProtectionUnit = new SiteProtectionUnit();
siteProtectionUnit.setSiteId("contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f");
siteProtectionUnits.add(siteProtectionUnit);
SiteProtectionUnit siteProtectionUnit1 = new SiteProtectionUnit();
siteProtectionUnit1.setSiteId("contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740");
siteProtectionUnits.add(siteProtectionUnit1);
SiteProtectionUnit siteProtectionUnit2 = new SiteProtectionUnit();
siteProtectionUnit2.setSiteId("contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851");
siteProtectionUnits.add(siteProtectionUnit2);
sharePointProtectionPolicy.setSiteProtectionUnits(siteProtectionUnits);
SharePointProtectionPolicy result = graphClient.solutions().backupRestore().sharePointProtectionPolicies().post(sharePointProtectionPolicy);

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);

const sharePointProtectionPolicy = {
 displayName: 'SharePoint Protection Policy',
 siteProtectionUnits: [
 {
 siteId: 'contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f'
 },
 {
 siteId: 'contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740'
 },
 {
 siteId: 'contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851'
 }
 ]
};

await client.api('/solutions/backupRestore/sharePointProtectionPolicies')
	.post(sharePointProtectionPolicy);

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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\SharePointProtectionPolicy;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\SiteProtectionUnit;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new SharePointProtectionPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('SharePoint Protection Policy');
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit1 = new SiteProtectionUnit();
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit1->setSiteId('contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f');
$siteProtectionUnitsArray []= $siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit1;
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit2 = new SiteProtectionUnit();
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit2->setSiteId('contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740');
$siteProtectionUnitsArray []= $siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit2;
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit3 = new SiteProtectionUnit();
$siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit3->setSiteId('contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851');
$siteProtectionUnitsArray []= $siteProtectionUnitsSiteProtectionUnit3;
$requestBody->setSiteProtectionUnits($siteProtectionUnitsArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->backupRestore()->sharePointProtectionPolicies()->post($requestBody)->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.BackupRestore

$params = @{
	displayName = "SharePoint Protection Policy"
	siteProtectionUnits = @(
		@{
			siteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f"
		}
		@{
			siteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740"
		}
		@{
			siteId = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
		}
	)
}

New-MgSolutionBackupRestoreSharePointProtectionPolicy -BodyParameter $params

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
from msgraph.generated.models.share_point_protection_policy import SharePointProtectionPolicy
from msgraph.generated.models.site_protection_unit import SiteProtectionUnit
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SharePointProtectionPolicy(
	display_name = "SharePoint Protection Policy",
	site_protection_units = [
		SiteProtectionUnit(
			site_id = "contoso.sharepoint.com,febad3c2-a7b2-454c-8910-272c7bcf78fc,ba7b70d0-8ba0-4cae-b19a-7cb8c739512f",
		),
		SiteProtectionUnit(
			site_id = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740",
		),
		SiteProtectionUnit(
			site_id = "contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/hr,3bfc861e-9a17-4a27-9562-3d8b26c81bb5,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851",
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.solutions.backup_restore.share_point_protection_policies.post(request_body)

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/1.1 201 Created
Content-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/solutions/backupRestore/protectionPolicies/b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7

{
 "@odata.context": " /solutions/backupRestore/$metadata#sharePointProtectionPolicies/$entity",
 "id": "b218eb4a-ea72-42bd-8f0b-d0bbf794bec7",
 "displayName": "SharePoint Protection Policy",
 "status": "inactive",
 "createdBy": {
 "application": {
 "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
 "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
 },
 "user": {
 "email": "User1@contoso.com",
 "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
 "displayName": "User1"
 }
 },
 "createdDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
 "lastModifiedBy": {
 "application": {
 "id": "1fec8e78-bce4-4aaf-ab1b-5451cc387264",
 "displayName": "Microsoft Enhanced Restore"
 },
 "user": {
 "email": "User2@constoso.com",
 "id": "845457dc-4bb2-4815-bef3-8628ebd1952e",
 "displayName": "User2"
 }
 },
 "lastModifiedDateTime": "2015-06-19T12:01:03.45Z",
 "retentionSettings": [
 {
 //Keep the per 10 minute copies for 14 days
 "interval": "R/PT10M",
 "period": "P2W"
 },
 {
 //Keep the per week copies for 1 year
 "interval": "R/P1W",
 "period": "P1Y"
 }
 ]
}

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