Delete A SharePoint Group Using Microsoft Power Automate

Introduction:

• 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.

https://SiteUrl/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=<group-id>

• 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 flow.

• Go to Power Automate
• 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 drop-down or manually enter the SharePoint site address.
• Select the Method as POST.
• Configure other options as given below:

Uri:

• Provide the Uri for this action in below format:

/_api/web/sitegroups/removebyid('<group-id>') 

• Replace <group-id> with the SharePoint Group ID we noted earlier in Step 1.

Headers:

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

application/json;odata=verbose

Finally, Save the Flow. You final flow should look like the below image:

Run the Flow. It should delete your SharePoint group successfully.

Summary:
In this article, we learned how to delete a SharePoint Group using Microsoft Power Automate. We used SharePoint REST API to delete a SharePoint group.
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