Remove tokenLifetimePolicies

2025-08-06

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Remove a tokenLifetimePolicy object from a service principal.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

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

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Policy.Read.All and Application.ReadWrite.All, Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration and Application.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Policy.Read.All and Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy, Policy.Read.All and Application.ReadWrite.All, Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration and Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy, Policy.ReadWrite.ApplicationConfiguration and Application.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

You can address the service principal using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in enterprise applications in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

DELETE /servicePrincipals/{servicePrincipalObjectId}/tokenLifetimePolicies/{tokenLifetimePolicyId}/$ref
DELETE /servicePrincipals(appId='{appId}')/tokenLifetimePolicies/{tokenLifetimePolicyId}/$ref

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/servicePrincipals/2a8f9e7a-af01-413a-9592-c32ec0e5c1a7/tokenLifetimePolicies/4d2f137b-e8a9-46da-a5c3-cc85b2b840a4/$ref


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.ServicePrincipals["{servicePrincipal-id}"].TokenLifetimePolicies["{tokenLifetimePolicy-id}"].Ref.DeleteAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.ServicePrincipals().ByServicePrincipalId("servicePrincipal-id").TokenLifetimePolicies().ByTokenLifetimePolicyId("tokenLifetimePolicy-id").Ref().Delete(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.servicePrincipals().byServicePrincipalId("{servicePrincipal-id}").tokenLifetimePolicies().byTokenLifetimePolicyId("{tokenLifetimePolicy-id}").ref().delete();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/servicePrincipals/2a8f9e7a-af01-413a-9592-c32ec0e5c1a7/tokenLifetimePolicies/4d2f137b-e8a9-46da-a5c3-cc85b2b840a4/$ref')
	.version('beta')
	.delete();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->servicePrincipals()->byServicePrincipalId('servicePrincipal-id')->tokenLifetimePolicies()->byTokenLifetimePolicyId('tokenLifetimePolicy-id')->ref()->delete()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Applications

Remove-MgBetaServicePrincipalTokenLifetimePolicyTokenLifetimePolicyByRef -ServicePrincipalId $servicePrincipalId -TokenLifetimePolicyId $tokenLifetimePolicyId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.service_principals.by_service_principal_id('servicePrincipal-id').token_lifetime_policies.by_token_lifetime_policy_id('tokenLifetimePolicy-id').ref.delete()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Request

Response

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