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title Get deleted item (directory object)
description Retrieve the properties of a recently deleted application, group, service principal, or user from deleted items.
author vimranga
ms.localizationpriority medium
ms.subservice entra-directory-management
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 06/23/2025

Get deleted item (directory object)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties of a recently deleted application, group, servicePrincipal, administrative unit, or user object from deleted items.

Retrieve the properties of a recently deleted directory object from deleted items. The following types are supported:

[!INCLUDE national-cloud-support]

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
administrativeUnit AdministrativeUnit.Read.All Not supported. AdministrativeUnit.Read.All
application Application.Read.All Not supported. Application.Read.All
agentIdentity AgentIdentity.Read.All Not supported. AgentIdentity.Read.All
agentIdentityBlueprint AgentIdentityBlueprint.Read.All Not supported. AgentIdentityBlueprint.Read.All
agentIdentityBlueprintPrincipal AgentIdentityBlueprintPrincipal.Read.All Not supported. AgentIdentityBlueprintPrincipal.Read.All
certificateBasedAuthPki PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All Not supported. PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All
certificateAuthorityDetail PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All Not supported. PublicKeyInfrastructure.Read.All
group Group.Read.All Not supported. Group.Read.All
servicePrincipal Application.Read.All Not supported. Application.Read.All
user User.Read.All Not supported. User.Read.All

[!INCLUDE rbac-directory-deleted-items-apis]

HTTP request

GET /directory/deletedItems/{object-id}

Important

For soft deleted security groups, the securityEnabled property returns false instead of true due to a known limitation.

To identify the group type, use the groupTypes property:

  • ["Unified"]indicates a Microsoft 365 group.
  • An empty array ([]) indicates a security group.

Optional query parameters

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

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 a 200 OK response code and a directoryObject object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

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

C#

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Go

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Java

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

JavaScript

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

PHP

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

PowerShell

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Python

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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"
}