domain: forceDelete

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete a domain using an asynchronous long-running operation.

Before performing this operation, you must update or remove any references to Exchange as the provisioning service.

The following actions are performed as part of this operation:

  • Updates the userPrincipalName, mail, and proxyAddresses properties of users with references to the deleted domain to use the initial onmicrosoft.com domain.

  • Updates the mail property of groups with references to the deleted domain to use the initial onmicrosoft.com domain.

  • Updates the identifierUris property of applications with references to the deleted domain to use the initial onmicrosoft.com domain.

  • If the number of objects to be renamed is greater than 1000, an error is returned.

  • If one of the applications to be renamed is a multitenant app, an error is returned.

After the domain deletion completes, API operations for the deleted domain return an HTTP 404 status code. To verify deletion of a domain, you can perform a get domain operation.

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) Domain.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Domain.ReadWrite.All Not available.

The work or school account needs to belong to at least the Domain Name Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

POST /domains/{id}/forceDelete

For {id}, specify the domain with its fully qualified domain name.

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
disableUserAccounts Boolean Option to disable user accounts that are renamed. If a user account is disabled, the user isn't allowed to sign in. If set to true the users updated as part of this operation are disabled. Default value is true.

Response body

If successful, this method returns HTTP/1.1 204 OK status code.

Example

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/domains/{id}/forceDelete
Content-type: application/json

{
  "disableUserAccounts": true
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 OK