Remove a member

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to remove a member (user, group, or device) from an administrative unit.

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)	AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be a member user or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Privileged Role Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

DELETE /directory/administrativeUnits/{id}/members/{id}/$ref

Caution

If you don't append /$ref to the request and the calling app has permissions to manage the member object, the object will also be deleted from Microsoft Entra ID; otherwise, a 403 Forbidden error is returned. You can restore specific objects through the Restore deleted items API.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request. In the example below, {id1} represents the identifier for the target administrative unit, and {id2} represents the unique identifier for the member user, group, or device to be removed from the target administrative unit.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits/{id1}/members/{id2}/$ref

C#

// 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.Directory.AdministrativeUnits["{administrativeUnit-id}"].Members["{directoryObject-id}"].Ref.DeleteAsync();

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

CLI

mgc directory administrative-units members ref-by-id delete --administrative-unit-id {administrativeUnit-id} --directory-object-id {directoryObject-id}

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"
	  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.Directory().AdministrativeUnits().ByAdministrativeUnitId("administrativeUnit-id").Members().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Ref().Delete(context.Background(), 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);

graphClient.directory().administrativeUnits().byAdministrativeUnitId("{administrativeUnit-id}").members().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").ref().delete();

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);

await client.api('/directory/administrativeUnits/{id1}/members/{id2}/$ref')
	.delete();

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;


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


$graphServiceClient->directory()->administrativeUnits()->byAdministrativeUnitId('administrativeUnit-id')->members()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->ref()->delete()->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.Identity.DirectoryManagement

Remove-MgDirectoryAdministrativeUnitMemberDirectoryObjectByRef -AdministrativeUnitId $administrativeUnitId -DirectoryObjectId $directoryObjectId

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

await graph_client.directory.administrative_units.by_administrative_unit_id('administrativeUnit-id').members.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').ref.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