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)
Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
Not supported.
Not supported.
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.
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.
Intune Administrator
Windows 365 Administrator
HTTP request
DELETE /devices/{id}/registeredOwners/{id}/$ref
Caution
If /$ref is not appended to the request and the calling app has permissions to manage the user who is a registered owner of the device, 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.
// 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.Devices["{device-id}"].RegisteredOwners["{directoryObject-id}"].Ref.DeleteAsync();
// 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.Devices().ByDeviceId("device-id").RegisteredOwners().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Ref().Delete(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
graphClient.devices().byDeviceId("{device-id}").registeredOwners().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").ref().delete();
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->devices()->byDeviceId('device-id')->registeredOwners()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->ref()->delete()->wait();
# 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.devices.by_device_id('device-id').registered_owners.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').ref.delete()