Restore a recently deleted application, group, servicePrincipal, administrative unit, or user object from deleted items. If an item was accidentally deleted, you can fully restore the item. However, security groups can't be restored. Also, restoring an application doesn't restore the associated service principal automatically. You must call this API to explicitly restore the deleted service principal.
A recently deleted item remains available for up to 30 days. After 30 days, the item is permanently deleted.
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.
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.
To restore deleted applications or service principals: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Hybrid Identity Administrator.
To restore deleted users: User Administrator. However, to restore users with privileged administrator roles:
In delegated scenarios, the app must be assigned the Directory.AccessAsUser.All delegated permission, and the calling user must also be assigned a higher privileged administrator role as indicated in Who can perform sensitive actions?.
In app-only scenarios and in addition to being granted the User.ReadWrite.All application permission, the app must be assigned a higher privileged administrator role as indicated in Who can perform sensitive actions?.
To restore deleted groups: Groups Administrator. However, to restore role-assignable groups, the calling user must be assigned the Privileged Role Administrator role.
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the parameters.
The following table lists the parameters that are required when you call this action.
Parameter
Type
Description
autoReconcileProxyConflict
Boolean
Optional parameter. Indicates whether Microsoft Entra ID should remove any conflicting proxy addresses while restoring a soft-deleted user whose one or more proxy addresses are currently used for an active user. Used only for restoring soft-deleted user objects. The default value for this parameter is false.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a directoryObject object in the response body.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/deletedItems/78bf875b-9343-4edc-9130-0d3958113563/restore
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.DeletedItems["{directoryObject-id}"].Restore.PostAsync();
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
//other-imports
)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
restore, err := graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Restore().Post(context.Background(), nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
var result = graphClient.directory().deletedItems().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").restore().post();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
result = await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').restore.post()
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/deleteditems/78bf875b-9343-4edc-9130-0d3958113563/restore
Content-Type: application/json
{
"autoReconcileProxyConflict": true
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.DirectoryNamespace.DeletedItems.Item.Restore;
var requestBody = new RestorePostRequestBody
{
AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{
"autoReconcileProxyConflict" , true
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Directory.DeletedItems["{directoryObject-id}"].Restore.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphdirectory "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/directory"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphdirectory.NewRestorePostRequestBody()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
autoReconcileProxyConflict := true
requestBody.SetAutoReconcileProxyConflict(&autoReconcileProxyConflict)
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
restore, err := graphClient.Directory().DeletedItems().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Restore().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.directory.deleteditems.item.restore.RestorePostRequestBody restorePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.directory.deleteditems.item.restore.RestorePostRequestBody();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("autoReconcileProxyConflict", true);
restorePostRequestBody.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
var result = graphClient.directory().deletedItems().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").restore().post(restorePostRequestBody);
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.directory.deleteditems.item.restore.restore_post_request_body import RestorePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = RestorePostRequestBody(
additional_data = {
"auto_reconcile_proxy_conflict" : True,
}
)
result = await graph_client.directory.deleted_items.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').restore.post(request_body)