| title | Remove a member |
|---|---|
| description | Use this API to remove a member (user, group, or device) from an administrative unit. |
| author | DougKirschner |
| ms.localizationpriority | medium |
| ms.subservice | entra-directory-management |
| doc_type | apiPageType |
| ms.date | 10/24/2024 |
Namespace: microsoft.graph
Use this API to remove a member (user, group, or device) from an administrative unit.
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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.
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DELETE /directory/administrativeUnits/{id}/members/{id}/$refCaution
If you don't append /$ref to the request and the calling app has permissions to manage the member object, the object will also be deleted from Microsoft Entra ID; otherwise, a 403 Forbidden error is returned. You can restore specific objects through the Restore deleted items API.
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| Authorization | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Don't supply a request body for this method.
If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
The following example shows a request. In the example below, {id1} represents the identifier for the target administrative unit, and {id2} represents the unique identifier for the member user, group, or device to be removed from the target administrative unit.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/administrativeUnits/{id1}/members/{id2}/$ref
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The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content