Delete a user

• 5/4/2019
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Delete user.

When deleted, user resources are moved to a temporary container and can be restored within 30 days. After that time, they are permanently deleted. To learn more, see deletedItems.

Permissions

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

HTTP request

DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}

Request headers

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It does not return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{user-id}

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

SDK sample code

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"]
	.Request()
	.DeleteAsync();

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let res = await client.api('/users/{user-id}')
	.delete();

Read the SDK documentation for details on how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance.