Get deleted item

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  • Contributors
    • Lance Leonard (MSFT)
    • Jeremy Thake (Microsoft)
    • Office GSX

Retrieve the properties of a recently deleted item in deleted items.

Currently, deleted items functionality is only supported for the group and user resources.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

For users:

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Directory AccessAsUser.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

For groups:

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /directory/deletedItems/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer <code> Required
Accept application/json

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and directoryObject object in the response body.

Example

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

Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directoryObjects/$entity",
  "id":"46cc6179-19d0-473e-97ad-6ff84347bbbb",
  "displayName":"SampleGroup",
  "groupTypes":["Unified"],
  "mail":"example@contoso.com",
  "mailEnabled":true,
  "mailNickname":"Example",
  "securityEnabled":false,
  "visibility":"Public"
}