Complete employee offboarding tasks in real-time on their last day of work using Lifecycle Workflows APIs
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This tutorial provides step-by-step guidance for completing a real-time employee termination with Lifecycle Workflows APIs in Microsoft Graph. In this scenario, the employee termination isn't scheduled. See Schedule employee offboarding tasks with Lifecycle Workflows APIs for a scheduled scenario.
In this tutorial, you learn how to:
Configure a lifecycle workflow to run the following tasks in sequence:
Remove the user from all groups
Remove user from all Teams
Delete user account
Monitor the status of the workflow and its associated tasks.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial, you need the following resources and privileges:
Sign in to an API client such as Graph Explorer to call Microsoft Graph with account that has at least the Lifecycle Administrator Microsoft Entra role.
Grant yourself the LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.All Microsoft Graph delegated permission.
Create a test user account that you use to represent an employee leaving your organization. This test user account is deleted when the workflow runs. Assign licenses and Teams memberships to the test user account.
Create a "leaver" workflow
Request
The following request creates an offboarding workflow with the following settings:
It can be run on-demand but not on schedule.
The workflow doesn't include execution conditions. Execution conditions, even when defined, are bypassed for workflows that are run on-demand.
Three workflow tasks are enabled to run in sequence: the user is removed from all groups, then removed from all teams, then their user account is deleted.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/LifecycleWorkflows/workflows
Content-type: application/json
{
"category": "Leaver",
"displayName": "Real-time employee termination",
"description": "Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work",
"isEnabled": true,
"isSchedulingEnabled": false,
"executionConditions":{
"@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly"
},
"tasks": [
{
"continueOnError": false,
"description": "Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships",
"displayName": "Remove user from all groups",
"executionSequence": 1,
"isEnabled": true,
"taskDefinitionId": "b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc",
"arguments": []
},
{
"continueOnError": false,
"description": "Remove user from all Teams memberships",
"displayName": "Remove user from all Teams",
"executionSequence": 2,
"isEnabled": true,
"taskDefinitionId": "81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024",
"arguments": []
},
{
"continueOnError": false,
"description": "Delete user account in Azure AD",
"displayName": "Delete User Account",
"executionSequence": 3,
"isEnabled": true,
"taskDefinitionId": "8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff",
"arguments": []
}
]
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.IdentityGovernance;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new Workflow
{
Category = LifecycleWorkflowCategory.Leaver,
DisplayName = "Real-time employee termination",
Description = "Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work",
IsEnabled = true,
IsSchedulingEnabled = false,
ExecutionConditions = new OnDemandExecutionOnly
{
OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly",
},
Tasks = new List<TaskObject>
{
new TaskObject
{
ContinueOnError = false,
Description = "Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships",
DisplayName = "Remove user from all groups",
ExecutionSequence = 1,
IsEnabled = true,
TaskDefinitionId = "b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc",
Arguments = new List<KeyValuePair>
{
},
},
new TaskObject
{
ContinueOnError = false,
Description = "Remove user from all Teams memberships",
DisplayName = "Remove user from all Teams",
ExecutionSequence = 2,
IsEnabled = true,
TaskDefinitionId = "81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024",
Arguments = new List<KeyValuePair>
{
},
},
new TaskObject
{
ContinueOnError = false,
Description = "Delete user account in Azure AD",
DisplayName = "Delete User Account",
ExecutionSequence = 3,
IsEnabled = true,
TaskDefinitionId = "8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff",
Arguments = new List<KeyValuePair>
{
},
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows.PostAsync(requestBody);
mgc identity-governance lifecycle-workflows workflows create --body '{\
"category": "Leaver",\
"displayName": "Real-time employee termination",\
"description": "Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work",\
"isEnabled": true,\
"isSchedulingEnabled": false,\
"executionConditions":{\
"@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly"\
},\
"tasks": [\
{\
"continueOnError": false,\
"description": "Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships",\
"displayName": "Remove user from all groups",\
"executionSequence": 1,\
"isEnabled": true,\
"taskDefinitionId": "b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc",\
"arguments": []\
},\
{\
"continueOnError": false,\
"description": "Remove user from all Teams memberships",\
"displayName": "Remove user from all Teams",\
"executionSequence": 2,\
"isEnabled": true,\
"taskDefinitionId": "81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024",\
"arguments": []\
},\
{\
"continueOnError": false,\
"description": "Delete user account in Azure AD",\
"displayName": "Delete User Account",\
"executionSequence": 3,\
"isEnabled": true,\
"taskDefinitionId": "8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff",\
"arguments": []\
}\
]\
}\
'
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Workflow workflow = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Workflow();
workflow.setCategory(com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.LifecycleWorkflowCategory.Leaver);
workflow.setDisplayName("Real-time employee termination");
workflow.setDescription("Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work");
workflow.setIsEnabled(true);
workflow.setIsSchedulingEnabled(false);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.OnDemandExecutionOnly executionConditions = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.OnDemandExecutionOnly();
executionConditions.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly");
workflow.setExecutionConditions(executionConditions);
LinkedList<com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task> tasks = new LinkedList<com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task>();
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task task = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task();
task.setContinueOnError(false);
task.setDescription("Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships");
task.setDisplayName("Remove user from all groups");
task.setExecutionSequence(1);
task.setIsEnabled(true);
task.setTaskDefinitionId("b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc");
LinkedList<KeyValuePair> arguments = new LinkedList<KeyValuePair>();
task.setArguments(arguments);
tasks.add(task);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task task1 = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task();
task1.setContinueOnError(false);
task1.setDescription("Remove user from all Teams memberships");
task1.setDisplayName("Remove user from all Teams");
task1.setExecutionSequence(2);
task1.setIsEnabled(true);
task1.setTaskDefinitionId("81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024");
LinkedList<KeyValuePair> arguments1 = new LinkedList<KeyValuePair>();
task1.setArguments(arguments1);
tasks.add(task1);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task task2 = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task();
task2.setContinueOnError(false);
task2.setDescription("Delete user account in Azure AD");
task2.setDisplayName("Delete User Account");
task2.setExecutionSequence(3);
task2.setIsEnabled(true);
task2.setTaskDefinitionId("8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff");
LinkedList<KeyValuePair> arguments2 = new LinkedList<KeyValuePair>();
task2.setArguments(arguments2);
tasks.add(task2);
workflow.setTasks(tasks);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Workflow result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().post(workflow);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityGovernance\Workflow;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityGovernance\LifecycleWorkflowCategory;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityGovernance\OnDemandExecutionOnly;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityGovernance\Task;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\KeyValuePair;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new Workflow();
$requestBody->setCategory(new LifecycleWorkflowCategory('leaver'));
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Real-time employee termination');
$requestBody->setDescription('Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work');
$requestBody->setIsEnabled(true);
$requestBody->setIsSchedulingEnabled(false);
$executionConditions = new OnDemandExecutionOnly();
$executionConditions->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly');
$requestBody->setExecutionConditions($executionConditions);
$tasksTask1 = new Task();
$tasksTask1->setContinueOnError(false);
$tasksTask1->setDescription('Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships');
$tasksTask1->setDisplayName('Remove user from all groups');
$tasksTask1->setExecutionSequence(1);
$tasksTask1->setIsEnabled(true);
$tasksTask1->setTaskDefinitionId('b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc');
$tasksTask1->setArguments([ ]);
$tasksArray []= $tasksTask1;
$tasksTask2 = new Task();
$tasksTask2->setContinueOnError(false);
$tasksTask2->setDescription('Remove user from all Teams memberships');
$tasksTask2->setDisplayName('Remove user from all Teams');
$tasksTask2->setExecutionSequence(2);
$tasksTask2->setIsEnabled(true);
$tasksTask2->setTaskDefinitionId('81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024');
$tasksTask2->setArguments([ ]);
$tasksArray []= $tasksTask2;
$tasksTask3 = new Task();
$tasksTask3->setContinueOnError(false);
$tasksTask3->setDescription('Delete user account in Azure AD');
$tasksTask3->setDisplayName('Delete User Account');
$tasksTask3->setExecutionSequence(3);
$tasksTask3->setIsEnabled(true);
$tasksTask3->setTaskDefinitionId('8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff');
$tasksTask3->setArguments([ ]);
$tasksArray []= $tasksTask3;
$requestBody->setTasks($tasksArray);
$result = $graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->workflows()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.identity_governance.workflow import Workflow
from msgraph.generated.models.lifecycle_workflow_category import LifecycleWorkflowCategory
from msgraph.generated.models.identity_governance.on_demand_execution_only import OnDemandExecutionOnly
from msgraph.generated.models.identity_governance.task import Task
from msgraph.generated.models.key_value_pair import KeyValuePair
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Workflow(
category = LifecycleWorkflowCategory.Leaver,
display_name = "Real-time employee termination",
description = "Execute real-time termination tasks for employees on their last day of work",
is_enabled = True,
is_scheduling_enabled = False,
execution_conditions = OnDemandExecutionOnly(
odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.onDemandExecutionOnly",
),
tasks = [
Task(
continue_on_error = False,
description = "Remove user from all Azure AD groups memberships",
display_name = "Remove user from all groups",
execution_sequence = 1,
is_enabled = True,
task_definition_id = "b3a31406-2a15-4c9a-b25b-a658fa5f07fc",
arguments = [
],
),
Task(
continue_on_error = False,
description = "Remove user from all Teams memberships",
display_name = "Remove user from all Teams",
execution_sequence = 2,
is_enabled = True,
task_definition_id = "81f7b200-2816-4b3b-8c5d-dc556f07b024",
arguments = [
],
),
Task(
continue_on_error = False,
description = "Delete user account in Azure AD",
display_name = "Delete User Account",
execution_sequence = 3,
is_enabled = True,
task_definition_id = "8d18588d-9ad3-4c0f-99d0-ec215f0e3dff",
arguments = [
],
),
],
)
result = await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.post(request_body)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows.Item.MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new ActivatePostRequestBody
{
Subjects = new List<User>
{
new User
{
Id = "8930f0c7-cdd7-4885-9260-3b4a8111de5c",
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate.PostAsync(requestBody);
// 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"
graphidentitygovernance "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/identitygovernance"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphidentitygovernance.NewActivatePostRequestBody()
user := graphmodels.NewUser()
id := "8930f0c7-cdd7-4885-9260-3b4a8111de5c"
user.SetId(&id)
subjects := []graphmodels.Userable {
user,
}
requestBody.SetSubjects(subjects)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.identitygovernance.lifecycleworkflows.workflows.item.microsoftgraphidentitygovernanceactivate.ActivatePostRequestBody activatePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.identitygovernance.lifecycleworkflows.workflows.item.microsoftgraphidentitygovernanceactivate.ActivatePostRequestBody();
LinkedList<User> subjects = new LinkedList<User>();
User user = new User();
user.setId("8930f0c7-cdd7-4885-9260-3b4a8111de5c");
subjects.add(user);
activatePostRequestBody.setSubjects(subjects);
graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate().post(activatePostRequestBody);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\IdentityGovernance\LifecycleWorkflows\Workflows\Item\MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate\ActivatePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\User;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ActivatePostRequestBody();
$subjectsUser1 = new User();
$subjectsUser1->setId('8930f0c7-cdd7-4885-9260-3b4a8111de5c');
$subjectsArray []= $subjectsUser1;
$requestBody->setSubjects($subjectsArray);
$graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->workflows()->byWorkflowId('workflow-id')->microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceActivate()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.identitygovernance.lifecycleworkflows.workflows.item.microsoft_graph_identity_governance_activate.activate_post_request_body import ActivatePostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.user import User
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ActivatePostRequestBody(
subjects = [
User(
id = "8930f0c7-cdd7-4885-9260-3b4a8111de5c",
),
],
)
await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').microsoft_graph_identity_governance_activate.post(request_body)
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/LifecycleWorkflows/workflows/368dfba3-2303-4e02-b258-87d742187e1b/userProcessingResults
// 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.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].UserProcessingResults.GetAsync();
// 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
userProcessingResults, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").UserProcessingResults().Get(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.UserProcessingResultCollectionResponse result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").userProcessingResults().get();
# 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.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').user_processing_results.get()
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/LifecycleWorkflows/workflows/368dfba3-2303-4e02-b258-87d742187e1b/userProcessingResults/summary(startDateTime=2022-10-01T00:00:00Z,endDateTime=2022-10-30T00:00:00Z)
// 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.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].UserProcessingResults.MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceSummaryWithStartDateTimeWithEndDateTime(DateTimeOffset.Parse("{endDateTime}"),DateTimeOffset.Parse("{startDateTime}")).GetAsync();
// 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
startDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "{startDateTime}")
endDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "{endDateTime}")
microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceSummary, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").UserProcessingResults().MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceSummaryWithStartDateTimeWithEndDateTime(&startDateTime, &endDateTime).Get(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
var result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").userProcessingResults().microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceSummaryWithStartDateTimeWithEndDateTime(OffsetDateTime.parse("{endDateTime}"), OffsetDateTime.parse("{startDateTime}")).get();
# 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.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').user_processing_results.microsoft_graph_identity_governance_summary_with_start_date_time_with_end_date_time("{endDateTime}","{startDateTime}").get()
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/LifecycleWorkflows/workflows/368dfba3-2303-4e02-b258-87d742187e1b/userProcessingResults/bc5b9d36-55fb-4036-8551-582668a6b78e/taskProcessingResults
// 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.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].UserProcessingResults["{userProcessingResult-id}"].TaskProcessingResults.GetAsync();
// 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
taskProcessingResults, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").UserProcessingResults().ByUserProcessingResultId("userProcessingResult-id").TaskProcessingResults().Get(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.TaskProcessingResultCollectionResponse result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").userProcessingResults().byUserProcessingResultId("{userProcessingResult-id}").taskProcessingResults().get();
# 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.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').user_processing_results.by_user_processing_result_id('userProcessingResult-id').task_processing_results.get()