Permanently delete item (directory object)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Permanently delete a recently deleted directory object from deleted items. The following types are supported:

• application
• certificateBasedAuthPki
• [certificateAuthorityDetail](../resources/certificateauthoritydetail.md
• externalUserProfile
• group
• pendingExternalUserProfile
• servicePrincipal
• user

After an item is permanently deleted, it cannot be restored.

Administrative units cannot be permanently deleted by using the deletedItems API. Soft-deleted administrative units will be permanently deleted 30 days after initial deletion unless they are restored.

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.OwnedBy
externalUserProfile	ExternalUserProfile.ReadWrite.All	Not supported	ExternalUserProfile.ReadWrite.All
group	Group.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Not supported.
pendingExternalUserProfile	PendingExternalUserProfile.ReadWrite.All	Not supported	PendingExternalUserProfile.ReadWrite.All
servicePrincipal	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy
user	User.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Not supported.
certificateBasedAuthPki	PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All	Not supported.	PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All
certificateAuthorityDetail	PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All	Not supported.	PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.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 a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• To permanently delete deleted applications or service principals: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Hybrid Identity Administrator.
• To permanently delete deleted users: User Administrator.
• To permanently delete deleted groups: Groups Administrator.

HTTP request

DELETE /directory/deleteditems/{id}

Request headers

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

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

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/deleteditems/46cc6179-19d0-473e-97ad-6ff84347bbbb

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.DeletedItems["{directoryObject-id}"].DeleteAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta directory deleted-items delete --directory-object-id {directoryObject-id}

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-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().DeletedItems().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Delete(context.Background(), nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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().deletedItems().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").delete();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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/deleteditems/46cc6179-19d0-473e-97ad-6ff84347bbbb')
	.version('beta')
	.delete();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


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


$graphServiceClient->directory()->deletedItems()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->delete()->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Identity.DirectoryManagement

Remove-MgBetaDirectoryDeletedItem -DirectoryObjectId $directoryObjectId

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta 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.deleted_items.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').delete()

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

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

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content