Delete an enterprise application

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In this article, you learn how to delete an enterprise application that was added to your Microsoft Entra tenant.

When you delete and enterprise application, it remains in a suspended state in the recycle bin for 30 days. During the 30 days, you can Restore the application. Deleted items are automatically hard deleted after the 30-day period. For more information on frequently asked questions about deletion and recovery of applications, see Deleting and recovering applications FAQs.

Prerequisites

To delete an enterprise application, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra user account. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
  • One of the following roles:
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Administrator
  • owner of the service principal
• An enterprise application added to your tenant.

Delete an enterprise application using Microsoft Entra admin center

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > All applications.

3. Enter the name of the existing application in the search box, and then select the application from the search results. In this article, we use the Microsoft Entra SAML Toolkit 1 as an example.

4. In the Manage section of the left menu, select Properties.

5. At the top of the Properties pane, select Delete, and then select Yes to confirm you want to delete the application from your Microsoft Entra tenant.

   

Delete an enterprise application using Microsoft Entra PowerShell

Make sure you're using the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module.

1. Connect to Microsoft Entra PowerShell and sign in as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Get the application you want to delete by filtering by the application name, then delete the application.

   PowerShell

   Connect-Entra -Scopes 'Application.ReadWrite.All'
   Get-EntraServicePrincipal -Filter "displayName eq 'Test-app1'" | Remove-EntraServicePrincipal
   

Delete an enterprise application using Microsoft Graph PowerShell

1. Connect to Microsoft Graph PowerShell and sign in as at least a Cloud Application Administrator:

   PowerShell

   Connect-MgGraph -Scopes 'Application.ReadWrite.All'
   

2. Get the list of enterprise applications in your tenant.

   PowerShell

   Get-MgServicePrincipal
   

3. Record the object ID of the enterprise app you want to delete.

4. Delete the enterprise application.

   PowerShell

   Remove-MgServicePrincipal -ServicePrincipalId 'aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-1111-222222222222'
   

Delete an enterprise application using Microsoft Graph API

To delete an enterprise application using Graph Explorer, you need to sign in as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

1. To get the list of service principals in your tenant, run the following query.

   HTTP

   GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals
   

2. Record the ID of the enterprise app you want to delete.

3. Delete the enterprise application.

   HTTP

   DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals/{servicePrincipal-id}
   

Related content

• Restore a deleted enterprise application