MailboxItem.ImportExport | Graph Permissions

Permission Details

Delegated Permission

Allows the app to perform backup and restore of mailbox items

Allows the app to backup, restore, and modify mailbox items on behalf of the signed-in user.

Permission ID: df96e8a0-f4e1-4ecf-8d83-a429f822cbd6

Properties

Microsoft Graph beta exact-category-docs

Properties is shown from beta metadata because a stable v1.0 schema is not available for this resource mapping.

Property	Type	Description
`categories`	`String collection`	The categories associated with the message. Inherited from outlookItem.
`changeKey`	`String`Nullable	The version of the item. Inherited from outlookItem.
`createdDateTime`	`DateTimeOffset`Nullable	The date and time when the item was created. The date and time information uses ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2021 is 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z. Inherited from outlookItem.
`id`	`String`	The unique identifier for the item. Inherited from outlookItem.
`lastModifiedDateTime`	`DateTimeOffset`Nullable	The date and time when the item was last changed. The date and time information uses ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2021 is 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z. Inherited from outlookItem.
`size`	`Int64`Nullable	The length of the item in bytes.
`type`	`String`Nullable	The message class ID of the item.
`multiValueExtendedProperties`	`multiValueLegacyExtendedProperty collection`	The collection of multi-value extended properties defined for the mailboxItem.
`singleValueExtendedProperties`	`singleValueLegacyExtendedProperty collection`	The collection of single-value extended properties defined for the mailboxItem.

JSON Representation

Microsoft Graph beta exact-category-docs

JSON representation is shown from beta metadata because a stable v1.0 schema is not available for this resource mapping.

JSON representation

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailboxItem",
  "categories": [
    "String"
  ],
  "changeKey": "String",
  "createdDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
  "id": "String (identifier)",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
  "size": "Int64",
  "type": "String"
}

Relationships

Microsoft Graph beta exact-category-docs

Relationships is shown from beta metadata because a stable v1.0 schema is not available for this resource mapping.

Relationship	Type	Description
`multiValueExtendedProperties`	`multiValueLegacyExtendedProperty collection`	The collection of multi-value extended properties defined for the mailboxItem.
`singleValueExtendedProperties`	`singleValueLegacyExtendedProperty collection`	The collection of single-value extended properties defined for the mailboxItem.
`categories`	`string collection`	The categories associated with the item.

Graph Methods

Delegated access App-only access

Exact Microsoft Learn match

Microsoft Graph v1.0 endpoints are mapped directly from refreshed Microsoft Learn permissions tables.

No API methods available for this version.

Exact Microsoft Learn match

Microsoft Graph beta endpoints are mapped directly from refreshed Microsoft Learn permissions tables.

Methods
POST `/admin/exchange/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/createImportSession`
POST `/admin/exchange/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/exportItems`

No Microsoft Learn PowerShell mapping available

Microsoft Graph PowerShell v1.0 commands are not available from refreshed Microsoft Learn PowerShell snippets for this permission.

No deterministic PowerShell command map is available for this permission.

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No Microsoft Learn PowerShell mapping available

Microsoft Graph PowerShell beta commands are not available from refreshed Microsoft Learn PowerShell snippets for this permission.

No deterministic PowerShell command map is available for this permission.

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Code Examples

C# / .NET SDK

mailbox: createImportSession

View official example on Microsoft Learn

// 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.Admin.Exchange.Mailboxes["{mailbox-id}"].CreateImportSession.PostAsync();

JavaScript

mailbox: createImportSession

View official example on Microsoft Learn

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/admin/exchange/mailboxes/MBX:e0643f21@a7809c93/createImportSession')
	.version('beta')
	.post();

PowerShell

Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "MailboxItem.ImportExport"
Invoke-MgGraphRequest -Method GET -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/admin/exchange/mailboxes/{id}/createImportSession"

Python

mailbox: createImportSession

View official example on Microsoft Learn

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta 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.admin.exchange.mailboxes.by_mailbox_id('mailbox-id').create_import_session.post()

App Registration

1

Navigate to Azure Portal

Go to App registrations in Microsoft Entra admin center

2

Add API Permission

Select your app → API permissions → Add a permission → Microsoft Graph

3

Select Permission Type

Choose Delegated permissions and search for MailboxItem.ImportExport

4

Grant Admin Consent

This delegated permission requires admin consent.