List deletedItems (directory objects)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a list of recently deleted directory objects. Currently, deleted items functionality is only supported for the application, servicePrincipal, group, administrative unit, and user resources.

Note: Deleted security groups are deleted permanently and can't be retrieved through this API.

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
administrativeUnit	AdministrativeUnit.Read.All	Not supported.	AdministrativeUnit.Read.All
application	Application.Read.All	Not supported.	Application.Read.All
group	Group.Read.All	Not supported.	Group.Read.All
servicePrincipal	Application.Read.All	Not supported.	Application.Read.All
user	User.Read.All	Not supported.	User.Read.All

Important

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it doesn't have permission to read a certain resource type, members of that type are returned but with limited information. For example, only the @odata.type property for the object type and the id is returned, while other properties are indicated as null. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

HTTP request

GET /directory/deleteditems/microsoft.graph.application
GET /directory/deleteditems/microsoft.graph.servicePrincipal
GET /directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group
GET /directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.user
GET /directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.administrativeUnit

The OData cast type is a required part of the URI and calling GET /directory/deleteditems without a type is not supported.

Optional query parameters

This method supports the query parameters that are supported by the resource that is specified by the OData cast. That is, $count, $expand, $filter, $orderby, $search, $select, and $top query parameters. This API returns 100 objects by default and supports returning up to 999 objects per page using $top.

Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For example:

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group?&$count=true&$orderby=deletedDateTime desc&$select=id,displayName,deletedDateTime
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

This example requires the ConsistencyLevel header because the $orderby and $count query parameters are used in the query.

$orderby OData query parameter examples

The $orderby OData query parameter is supported on the deletedDateTime, displayName, and userPrincipalName properties of the deleted object types. On the deletedDateTime property, the query requires adding the advanced query parameters (ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count=true query string).

OData cast	Properties supporting $orderby	Example
microsoft.graph.user	deletedDateTime, displayName, userPrincipalName	/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.user?$orderby=userPrincipalName
microsoft.graph.group	deletedDateTime, displayName	/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group?$orderby=deletedDateTime asc&$count=true
microsoft.graph.application	deletedDateTime, displayName	/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.application?$orderby=displayName
microsoft.graph.device	deletedDateTime, displayName	/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.device?$orderby=deletedDateTime&$count=true

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 a 200 OK response code and collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Retrieve deleted groups

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group

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
var result = await graphClient.Directory.DeletedItems.GraphGroup.GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc directory deleted-items graph-group get

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
graphGroup, err := graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().GraphGroup().Get(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);

GroupCollectionResponse result = graphClient.directory().deletedItems().graphGroup().get();

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);

let group = await client.api('/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group')
	.get();

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);


$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->deletedItems()->graphGroup()->get()->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

Get-MgDirectoryDeletedItemAsGroup

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

result = await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.graph_group.get()

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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups",
  "value": [
    {
      "id":"46cc6179-19d0-473e-97ad-6ff84347bbbb",
      "displayName":"SampleGroup",
      "groupTypes":["Unified"],
      "mail":"example@contoso.com",
      "mailEnabled":true,
      "mailNickname":"Example",
      "securityEnabled":false,
      "visibility":"Public"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2: Retrieve the count of deleted user objects and order the results by the deletedDateTime property

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group?$count=true&$orderby=deletedDateTime asc&$select=id,DisplayName,deletedDateTime
ConsistencyLevel: eventual

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
var result = await graphClient.Directory.DeletedItems.GraphGroup.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Count = true;
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Orderby = new string []{ "deletedDateTime asc" };
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "id","DisplayName","deletedDateTime" };
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

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

CLI

mgc directory deleted-items graph-group get --count "true" --orderby "deletedDateTime asc" --select "id,DisplayName,deletedDateTime"

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"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphdirectory "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/directory"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


requestCount := true

requestParameters := &graphdirectory.DirectoryDeletedItemsGraph.groupRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Count: &requestCount,
	Orderby: [] string {"deletedDateTime asc"},
	Select: [] string {"id","DisplayName","deletedDateTime"},
}
configuration := &graphdirectory.DirectoryDeletedItemsGraph.groupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphGroup, err := graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().GraphGroup().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

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);

GroupCollectionResponse result = graphClient.directory().deletedItems().graphGroup().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.count = true;
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.orderby = new String []{"deletedDateTime asc"};
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"id", "DisplayName", "deletedDateTime"};
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual");
});

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);

let group = await client.api('/directory/deletedItems/microsoft.graph.group')
	.header('ConsistencyLevel','eventual')
	.select('id,displayName,deletedDateTime')
	.orderby('deletedDateTime asc')
	.get();

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\Directory\DeletedItems\Graph\Group\GroupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new GraphGroupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'ConsistencyLevel' => 'eventual',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = GraphGroupRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->count = true;
$queryParameters->orderby = ["deletedDateTime asc"];
$queryParameters->select = ["id","DisplayName","deletedDateTime"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->deletedItems()->graphGroup()->get($requestConfiguration)->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

Get-MgDirectoryDeletedItemAsGroup -CountVariable CountVar -Sort "deletedDateTime asc" -Property "id,DisplayName,deletedDateTime" 

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.directory.deleted_items.graph.group.group_request_builder import GroupRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = GroupRequestBuilder.GroupRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		count = True,
		orderby = ["deletedDateTime asc"],
		select = ["id","DisplayName","deletedDateTime"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("ConsistencyLevel", "eventual")


result = await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.graph_group.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups(id,displayName,deletedDateTime)",
    "@odata.count": 2,
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "c31799b8-0683-4d70-9e91-e032c89d3035",
            "displayName": "Role assignable group",
            "deletedDateTime": "2021-10-26T16:56:36Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "74e45ce0-a52a-4766-976c-7201b0f99370",
            "displayName": "Role assignable group",
            "deletedDateTime": "2021-10-26T16:58:37Z"
        }
    ]
}