incidentTask: executeResponseAction

2025-07-30

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Execute a remediation action on a Microsoft Defender XDR incident task. Only the following actionType values are supported for automated execution: collectInvestigationPackage, isolateDevice, unRestrictAppExecution, unIsolateDevice, restrictAppExecution, runAntiVirusScan, stopAndQuarantineFile, submitIocRule.

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 permission	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /security/incidentTasks/{incidentTaskId}/executeResponseAction

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. If a status code other than 2xx or 404 is returned or if a provider times out, see Microsoft Graph Security API error responses.

Note

Attempting to execute a response action with an unsupported actionType will return a 400 Bad Request error with the message "Currently {incidentTask.ActionType} is not supported".

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/security/incidentTasks/213213/executeResponseAction


// 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
await graphClient.Security.IncidentTasks["{incidentTask-id}"].MicrosoftGraphSecurityExecuteResponseAction.PostAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Security().IncidentTasks().ByIncidentTaskId("incidentTask-id").MicrosoftGraphSecurityExecuteResponseAction().Post(context.Background(), nil)

Important

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);

graphClient.security().incidentTasks().byIncidentTaskId("{incidentTask-id}").microsoftGraphSecurityExecuteResponseAction().post();

Important

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('/security/incidentTasks/213213/executeResponseAction')
	.version('beta')
	.post();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


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


$graphServiceClient->security()->incidentTasks()->byIncidentTaskId('incidentTask-id')->microsoftGraphSecurityExecuteResponseAction()->post()->wait();

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.security.incident_tasks.by_incident_task_id('incidentTask-id').microsoft_graph_security_execute_response_action.post()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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