Remove sponsor

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Remove a user's sponsor.

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/users/sponsors/update role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

• Directory Writers
• User Administrator

HTTP request

DELETE /users/{id}/sponsors/{id}/$ref

Caution

If /$ref is not appended to the request and the calling app has permissions to manage the sponsor object type, the sponsor object is also deleted from Microsoft Entra ID; otherwise, a 403 Forbidden error is returned. For example, an app with User.ReadWrite.All permissions deletes a user who is a sponsor. 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 a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following is an example of a request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{user-id}/sponsors/{directory-object-id}/$ref

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/users/{user-id}/sponsors/{directory-object-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