driveItem: removeRetentionLabel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Remove the retention label from a driveItem. This operation clears the retention label and all associated retention settings enforced on the item.

For information about retention labels from an administrator's perspective, see Use retention labels to manage the lifecycle of documents stored in SharePoint.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

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)	Files.ReadWrite.All	Sites.FullControl.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Files.ReadWrite.All	Sites.ReadWrite.All

Note

• Sites.FullControl.All is the least privileged permission required to remove retention labels that classify the content as records in SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
• The removal of a Record retention label isn't supported when using app-only authentication. This operation requires a delegated user context.

Note

SharePoint Embedded requires the FileStorageContainer.Selected permission to access the content of the container. This permission is different from the ones mentioned previously. In addition to Microsoft Graph permissions, your app must have the necessary container type permissions to call this API. For more information, see SharePoint Embedded authentication and authorization.

HTTP request

DELETE /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel
DELETE /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel
DELETE /me/drive/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel
DELETE /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel

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. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Remove the retention label from a driveItem

The following example shows how to remove the retention label from a driveItem object.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/b!t18F8ybsHUq1z3LTz8xvZqP8zaSWjkFNhsME-Fepo75dTf9vQKfeRblBZjoSQrd7/items/01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK/retentionLabel

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.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].RetentionLabel.DeleteAsync();

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.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").RetentionLabel().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.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").retentionLabel().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('/drives/b!t18F8ybsHUq1z3LTz8xvZqP8zaSWjkFNhsME-Fepo75dTf9vQKfeRblBZjoSQrd7/items/01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK/retentionLabel')
	.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->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->retentionLabel()->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.Files

Remove-MgDriveItemRetentionLabel -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

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.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').retention_label.delete()

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

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Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Remove the retention label from a driveItem that fails due to insufficient permissions

The following example shows how to remove the retention label from a driveItem object that fails due to insufficient permissions.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/b!t18F8ybsHUq1z3LTz8xvZqP8zaSWjkFNhsME-Fepo75dTf9vQKfeRblBZjoSQrd7/items/01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK/retentionLabel

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.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].RetentionLabel.DeleteAsync();

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.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").RetentionLabel().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.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").retentionLabel().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('/drives/b!t18F8ybsHUq1z3LTz8xvZqP8zaSWjkFNhsME-Fepo75dTf9vQKfeRblBZjoSQrd7/items/01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK/retentionLabel')
	.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->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->retentionLabel()->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.Files

Remove-MgDriveItemRetentionLabel -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

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.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').retention_label.delete()

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

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Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "error": {
    "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.publicError",
    "code": "accessDenied",
    "message": "Access denied. You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this action.",
    "innerError": {
      "request-id": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
      "date": "2025-02-03T10:30:00"
    }
  }
}