Introduction

In this article, we will learn how to delete a SharePoint Group using Microsoft Flow / Power Automate.

As there are no actions available to perform group operations in Microsoft Flow / Power Automate using SharePoint Connector, we will use SharePoint REST API to delete a group.

Scenario

Let's assume you want to delete a SharePoint group which is no longer useful for you in your SharePoint site and you want to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft Flow/Power Automate for this.   In this article we will create a manually triggered flow and use SharePoint REST API to delete a SharePoint Group.

Demo

 

Step 1 - Get ID of SharePoint Group

• Go to your SharePoint site.
• Go to SharePoint site settings (https://SiteUrl/_layouts/15/settings.aspx).
• Select Site permissions.
• Click on a group name you want to delete.
• You can find the group ID in browser URL at the end.

• Browser URL will be in above format, group ID will be an integer after "MembershipGroupId=" query string parameter.
• Copy this group ID and note it down as we will use it later while working with Microsoft flow.

Step 2 - Create a flow

• Go to Microsoft Flow
• Click on Create from left side pane.
• Click on Instant flow.
• Give a name to your flow.
• Select Manually trigger a flow under "Choose how to trigger this flow" setting.
• Click on Create button to create our flow.

Step 3 - Delete a SharePoint Group

• Add Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action.
• Select a SharePoint site from dropdown or manually enter the SharePoint site address.
• Select the Method as POST.
• Configure other options as given below:

• We will add below two headers for this action:
  
  • accept
  • content-type
• Provide below value for both these headers:

Step 4 - Test / Run the Flow

• Select Test option from upper right corner in flow editor.
• Select I'll perform the trigger action option.
• Then click on Test button.
• Flow will check and make sure your SharePoint connection is working.
• Then click on Run flow button.
• It will show a message stating that Your flow run successfully started.
• Click on Flow Runs Page link to monitor our test flow run.
• It will take some time to run this flow and then show the Status as Test succeeded.

• If you want see the test flow run in detail then click on the latest run and you can see all the details. 
• Check the Status code (200) of Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action and notice that your SharePoint group has been deleted successfully.

Note:

Make sure the account you are using to create and publish a flow has sufficient permissions to access the SharePoint Group using SharePoint REST APIs. In order to achieve this you have to change the group settings as mentioned below:

• Grant owner permissions to the account you are using to create and publish a flow. OR
• Set Who can view the membership of the group in Group settings to Everyone.

Summary

In this article, we learned how to delete a SharePoint Group using Microsoft Flow / Power Automate. We used SharePoint REST API to delete a SharePoint group.
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See Also

Here are some related articles and official references for you to read next

• Delete A SharePoint Group Using Microsoft Flow/Power Automate - Original article
• How to Turn on Experimental Features in Power Automate
• Flow: Get SharePoint List Item Through Rest API
• Working with the SharePoint Send HTTP Request flow action in Power Automate
• SharePoint Connector - Send an HTTP request to SharePoint

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