application: removeKey

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Remove a key credential from an application. This method along with addKey can be used by an application to automate rolling its expiring keys.

Note

Create servicePrincipal and Update servicePrincipal operations can continue to be used to add and update key credentials for any application with application or a user's context.

As part of the request validation for this method, a proof of possession of an existing key is verified before the action can be performed.

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)	Application.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Note

An application does not need any specific permission to roll its own keys.

HTTP request

You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

POST /applications/{id}/removeKey
POST /applications(appId='{appId}')/removeKey

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide the following required properties.

Property	Type	Description
keyId	Guid	The unique identifier for the password.
proof	String	A self-signed JWT token used as a proof of possession of the existing keys. This JWT token must be signed with a private key that corresponds to one of the existing valid certificates associated with the application. The token should contain the following claims: aud: Audience needs to be 00000002-0000-0000-c000-000000000000. iss: Issuer needs to be the ID of the application that initiates the request. nbf: Not before time. exp: Expiration time should be the value of nbf + 10 minutes. For steps to generate this proof of possession token, see Generating proof of possession tokens for rolling keys.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No content response code.

Examples

The following is example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{id}/removeKey
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "keyId": "f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6",
    "proof":"eyJ0eXAiOiJ..."
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Applications.Item.RemoveKey;

var requestBody = new RemoveKeyPostRequestBody
{
	KeyId = Guid.Parse("f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6"),
	Proof = "eyJ0eXAiOiJ...",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Applications["{application-id}"].RemoveKey.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc applications remove-key post --application-id {application-id} --body '{\
    "keyId": "f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6",\
    "proof":"eyJ0eXAiOiJ..."\
}\
'

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  "github.com/google/uuid"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphapplications "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/applications"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphapplications.NewRemoveKeyPostRequestBody()
keyId := uuid.MustParse("f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6")
requestBody.SetKeyId(&keyId) 
proof := "eyJ0eXAiOiJ..."
requestBody.SetProof(&proof) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").RemoveKey().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.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.applications.item.removekey.RemoveKeyPostRequestBody removeKeyPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.applications.item.removekey.RemoveKeyPostRequestBody();
removeKeyPostRequestBody.setKeyId(UUID.fromString("f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6"));
removeKeyPostRequestBody.setProof("eyJ0eXAiOiJ...");
graphClient.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").removeKey().post(removeKeyPostRequestBody);

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

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const removeKey = {
    keyId: 'f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6',
    proof: 'eyJ0eXAiOiJ...'
};

await client.api('/applications/{id}/removeKey')
	.post(removeKey);

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Applications\Item\RemoveKey\RemoveKeyPostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new RemoveKeyPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setKeyId('f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6');
$requestBody->setProof('eyJ0eXAiOiJ...');

$graphServiceClient->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->removeKey()->post($requestBody)->wait();

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

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Applications

$params = @{
	keyId = "f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6"
	proof = "eyJ0eXAiOiJ..."
}

Remove-MgApplicationKey -ApplicationId $applicationId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.applications.item.remove_key.remove_key_post_request_body import RemoveKeyPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = RemoveKeyPostRequestBody(
	key_id = UUID("f0b0b335-1d71-4883-8f98-567911bfdca6"),
	proof = "eyJ0eXAiOiJ...",
)

await graph_client.applications.by_application_id('application-id').remove_key.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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content