Delete Exchange mailbox

Deletes an on-premises Exchange mailbox of a user.

DELETE ~/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox?<parameters>

Query parameters

Name
Required
Type
Description
directoryobject
True
string

The identifier of the user whose mailbox to delete. You can use:

Distinguished name (DN)

# Example
CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com

Globally unique identifier (GUID)

# Example
7a4267ce-d354-44e7-8bd6-c681f1284a41

Security identifier (SID)

# Example
S-1-5-21-3635565734-1729062999-1822655016-1627

Request headers

Name
Required
Description
Adm-Authorization
True
Specify the security token obtained during authentication.

Request body

Do not send a body with this request.

Responses

If successful, returns 200 OK status code and an operation result in the response body. Otherwise, returns one of the common HTTP error codes and an error description in the response body.

Examples

Delete a mailbox

The following code sample deletes the Exchange mailbox of the specified user.

Request

PowerShell

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web
$baseUrl = "https://host.example.com/restApi"
$endpoint = "/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox"

# Request parameters
$userIdentifier = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode("CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com")
$queryParams = "?directoryObject=$userIdentifier"
$requestUrl = $baseUrl + $endpoint + $queryParams
$requestHeaders = @{"Adm-Authorization" = YOUR-SECURITY-TOKEN}

# Make request
Invoke-RestMethod -Method DELETE -Headers $requestHeaders -Uri $requestUrl

C#

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main()
    {
        const string baseUrl = "https://host.example.com";
        const string endpoint = "/restApi/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox";

        // Request parameters
        const string userIdentifier = "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com";
        UriBuilder requestUrl = new()
        {
            Host = baseUrl + endpoint,
            Query = $"?directoryObject={userIdentifier}"
        };

        // Initialize HTTP client
        using HttpClient client = new();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Adm-Authorization", YOUR-SECURITY-TOKEN);

        // Make request
        HttpResponseMessage response = await client.DeleteAsync(requestUrl.ToString());
        string responseBody = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
        Console.WriteLine(responseBody);
    }
}

cURL

curl --header 'Adm-Authorization: YOUR-SECURITY-TOKEN' \
--get -X DELETE 'https://host.example.com/restApi/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox' \
--data-urlencode 'directoryObject=CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com'

node.js

var https = require('https');

// Request parameters
var userIdentifier = "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com";
var requestPath = "/restApi/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox"
    + `?directoryobject=${userIdentifier}`;

var options = {
    'method': 'DELETE',
    'hostname': 'host.example.com',
    'path': encodeURI(requestPath),
    'headers': {'Adm-Authorization': 'YOUR-SECURITY-TOKEN'}
};

// Make request
var req = https.request(options, res => {
    var data = [];

    res.on("data", chunk => {
        data.push(chunk);
    });

    res.on("end", () => {
        var body = Buffer.concat(data);
        console.log(body.toString());
    });

    res.on("error", error => {
        console.error(error);
    });
});
req.end();

Python

import requests
import json

baseUrl = "https://host.example.com/restApi"
endpoint = "/api/directoryObjects/exchange/mailbox"

# Request parameters
requestUrl = baseUrl + endpoint
requestHeaders = {"Adm-Authorization": YOUR-SECURITY-TOKEN}
queryParams = {"directoryobject": "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com"}

# Make request
request = requests.delete(requestUrl, headers=requestHeaders, params=queryParams)
response = json.loads(request.content)
print(response)

Response

HTTP Status code: 200 OK
Response body:

{
    "resultType": 0,
    "innerMessages": [],
    "exception": null,
    "actualObjectDN": "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com",
    "extraInfo": {}
}

Delete Exchange mailbox

Query parameters

Name

Required

Type