AzureAD Graph API - getting removed users using delta links on groups

Question

I am not able to get removed users using a delta link retrieved from a previous call of https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/delta

Explanations:

1. I retrieve the groups using the query

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/delta

which returns the results correctly

Then I keep the delta link (example of delta link from JSON response: "@odata.deltaLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/delta?$deltatoken=7VBZ66f3HT ... )

2. I remove manually a user which belongs to a group to be sure the delta link works and returns the removed user id.

-> nothing at all is returned.

According to their documentation, it should work:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/delta-query-groups#deltalink-response

Moreover, when i do the same thing with delta user query, it works fine, the removed user is returned with user delta link.

Question:

Does anyone is experiencing this issue and did you find any solution?

Answer 1

I didn't reproduce your issue on my side. I am using Microsoft graph explore to test the api.

When I accessed the final nextLink response, I got the deltaLink.

Then I removed two users from a group on Azure portal.

I can get the expected result when I access the deltaLink.

Update:

I just noticed that you deleted the user directly. That's why you can only get removed user on user delta. If you remove the user from the group directly, you will get the removed user.