Update incidentTask

2025-08-06

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.

Update a Microsoft Defender XDR incident task. You can only update the status property.

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

PATCH /security/incidentTasks/{incidentTaskId}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply only the values you want to update. Omitted properties retain their existing values.

Property	Type	Description
status	microsoft.graph.security.incidentTaskStatus	The task status. Values: `open`, `inProgress`, `completed`, `failed`, `notRelevant`, `unknownFutureValue`.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the updated security-incidentTask object in the response body.

Examples

Request

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/security/incidentTasks/213213
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "status": "completed"
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models.Security;

var requestBody = new IncidentTask
{
	Status = IncidentTaskStatus.Completed,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.IncidentTasks["{incidentTask-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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"
	  graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models/security"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewIncidentTask()
status := graphmodels.COMPLETED_INCIDENTTASKSTATUS 
requestBody.SetStatus(&status) 

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

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.IncidentTask incidentTask = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.IncidentTask();
incidentTask.setStatus(com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.IncidentTaskStatus.Completed);
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.IncidentTask result = graphClient.security().incidentTasks().byIncidentTaskId("{incidentTask-id}").patch(incidentTask);

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);

const incidentTask = {
    status: 'completed'
};

await client.api('/security/incidentTasks/213213')
	.version('beta')
	.update(incidentTask);

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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Security\IncidentTask;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Security\IncidentTaskStatus;


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

$requestBody = new IncidentTask();
$requestBody->setStatus(new IncidentTaskStatus('completed'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->incidentTasks()->byIncidentTaskId('incidentTask-id')->patch($requestBody)->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
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.security.incident_task import IncidentTask
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.incident_task_status import IncidentTaskStatus
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = IncidentTask(
	status = IncidentTaskStatus.Completed,
)

result = await graph_client.security.incident_tasks.by_incident_task_id('incidentTask-id').patch(request_body)

Important

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.security.incidentTask",
    "id": "213213",
    "incident": {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.security.incident",
        "id": "123"
    },
    "status": "completed",
    "source": "defenderExpertsXDR",
    "displayName": "Reset device testmachine20",
    "description": "Reset the machine",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-06-26T19:07:39.7433333Z",
    "createdByDisplayName": "Defender Experts",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-06-27T10:49:33.98Z",
    "lastModifiedByDisplayName": "bealfasi",
    "actionType": "text",
    "actionStatus": "notStarted",
    "responseAction": null
}

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