Remove application owner

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Remove an owner from an application. As a recommended best practice, apps should have at least two owners.

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

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.

DELETE /applications/{id}/owners/{id}/$ref
DELETE /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners/{id}/$ref

Caution

If /$ref is not appended to the request and the calling app has permissions to manage the user who is the app owner, the user will also be deleted from Microsoft Entra ID; otherwise, a 403 Forbidden error is returned. You can restore deleted users through the Restore deleted items API.

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply the identifier of the directory object to be assigned as owner.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows the request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/applications/{id}/owners/{id}/$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.Applications["{application-id}"].Owners["{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 applications owners ref-by-id delete --application-id {application-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.Applications().ByApplicationId("application-id").Owners().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.applications().byApplicationId("{application-id}").owners().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('/applications/{id}/owners/{id}/$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->applications()->byApplicationId('application-id')->owners()->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.Applications

Remove-MgApplicationOwnerDirectoryObjectByRef -ApplicationId $applicationId -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.applications.by_application_id('application-id').owners.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.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content