Namespace: microsoft.graph
Delete a directory object, for example, a group, user, application, or service principal.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
| Global service |
US Government L4 |
US Government L5 (DOD) |
China operated by 21Vianet |
| ✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Permissions
The following table shows the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.
| Supported resource |
Delegated (work or school account) |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Application |
| application |
Application.ReadWrite.All |
Not supported. |
Application.ReadWrite.All |
| group |
Group.ReadWrite.All |
Not supported. |
Group.ReadWrite.All |
| servicePrincipal |
Application.ReadWrite.All |
Not supported. |
Application.ReadWrite.All |
| user |
User.ReadWrite.All |
Not supported. |
User.ReadWrite.All |
HTTP request
DELETE /directoryObjects/{id}
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
Example
Request
The following example shows a request.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/ffab4dce-9b82-49a6-b7c7-1a143106598c
// 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.DirectoryObjects["{directoryObject-id}"].DeleteAsync();
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"
//other-imports
)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.DirectoryObjects().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Delete(context.Background(), 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);
graphClient.directoryObjects().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").delete();
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('/directoryObjects/ffab4dce-9b82-49a6-b7c7-1a143106598c')
.delete();
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;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->directoryObjects()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->delete()->wait();
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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
await graph_client.directory_objects.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').delete()
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.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content