Delete windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Deletes a windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod object.

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 tables show 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.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they 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.

• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

Delete your own Windows Hello For Business authentication method.

DELETE /me/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods/{windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId}

Delete your own or another user's Windows Hello For Business authentication method.

DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods/{windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods/_jpuR-TGZtk6aQCLF3BQjA2

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.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.WindowsHelloForBusinessMethods["{windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id}"].DeleteAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users authentication windows-hello-for-business-methods delete --user-id {user-id} --windows-hello-for-business-authentication-method-id {windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id}

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
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().WindowsHelloForBusinessMethods().ByWindowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId("windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id").Delete(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);

graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().windowsHelloForBusinessMethods().byWindowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId("{windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id}").delete();

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('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/windowsHelloForBusinessMethods/_jpuR-TGZtk6aQCLF3BQjA2')
	.delete();

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);


$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->windowsHelloForBusinessMethods()->byWindowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId('windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id')->delete()->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.SignIns

Remove-MgUserAuthenticationWindowsHelloForBusinessMethod -UserId $userId -WindowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId $windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethodId

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

await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.windows_hello_for_business_methods.by_windows_hello_for_business_authentication_method_id('windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod-id').delete()

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