Restore deleted item (directory object)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Restore a recently deleted application, group, servicePrincipal, administrative unit, or user object from deleted items. If an item was accidentally deleted, you can fully restore the item. However, security groups cannot be restored. Also, restoring an application doesn't restore the associated service principal automatically. You must call this API to explicitly restore the deleted service principal.

A recently deleted item remains available for up to 30 days. After 30 days, the item is permanently deleted.

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.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	AdministrativeUnit.ReadWrite.All
application	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy
group	Group.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Group.ReadWrite.All
servicePrincipal	Application.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy
user	User.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.	User.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios, the calling user needs to have at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

• To restore deleted applications or service principals: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Hybrid Identity Administrator.
• To restore deleted users: User Administrator. However, to restore users with privileged administrator roles:
  • In delegated scenarios, the app must be assigned the Directory.AccessAsUser.All delegated permission, and the calling user must also be assigned a higher privileged administrator role as indicated in Who can perform sensitive actions?.
  • In app-only scenarios and in addition to being granted the User.ReadWrite.All application permission, the app must be assigned a higher privileged administrator role as indicated in Who can perform sensitive actions?.
• To restore deleted groups: Groups Administrator. However, to restore role-assignable groups, the calling user must be assigned the Privileged Role Administrator role.

HTTP request

POST /directory/deletedItems/{id}/restore

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	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 a directoryObject object in the response body.

Example

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/deletedItems/{object-id}/restore

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["{directoryObject-id}"].Restore.PostAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc directory deleted-items restore post --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

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



restore, err := graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Restore().Post(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);

var result = graphClient.directory().deletedItems().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").restore().post();

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/{object-id}/restore')
	.post();

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()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->restore()->post()->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

Restore-MgDirectoryDeletedItem -DirectoryObjectId $directoryObjectId

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').restore.post()

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/$metadata#directoryObjects/$entity",
  "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.group",
  "id":"46cc6179-19d0-473e-97ad-6ff84347bbbb",
  "displayName":"SampleGroup",
  "groupTypes":["Unified"],
  "mail":"example@contoso.com",
  "mailEnabled":true,
  "mailNickname":"Example",
  "securityEnabled":false,
  "visibility":"Public"
}