Permanently delete an item (directory object)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Permanently delete a recently deleted application, group, servicePrincipal, or user object from deleted items. After an item is permanently deleted, it cannot be restored.

Administrative units cannot be permanently deleted by using the deletedItems API. Soft-deleted administrative units will be permanently deleted 30 days after initial deletion unless they are restored.

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

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

• To permanently delete deleted applications or service principals: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Hybrid Identity Administrator.
• To permanently delete deleted users: User Administrator.
• To permanently delete deleted groups: Groups Administrator.

HTTP request

DELETE /directory/deletedItems/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept	application/json

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

HTTP

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

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.Directory.DeletedItems["{directoryObject-id}"].DeleteAsync();

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 delete --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)



graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-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.directory().deletedItems().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-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('/directory/deletedItems/{object-id}')
	.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->directory()->deletedItems()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-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.DirectoryManagement

Remove-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)


await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-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