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Muhammad Rehan Saeed
Muhammad Rehan Saeed

Reputation: 38407

Deleting an Application's AppRole in Azure Active Directory

Removing an AppRole from an Application’s manifest produces a 400 Bad Request with the error

Property value cannot be deleted unless it is disabled first.

When I set the isEnabled property to false and then hit save, I get a successful saven with a 200 OK looking at the browsers developer tools:

Before

After reloading the Edit manifest screen the isEnabled property is still true and if you look at the PUT response in the browsers developer tools, it's coming back as true there too.

After

How can I remove an appRole without having to delete and recreate the entire application?

Update

I've raised the following bug.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 12796

Answers (7)

Namujiji
Namujiji

Reputation: 1

  • Navigate to your Application

  • Go to App Roles

    Snip

  • Click on the app role display name

  • Untick the checkbox to disable the Role

    Snip

  • Go back to the manifest and make changes to the appRoles section as you need

    Snip

  • Save and it should be updated

Upvotes: 0

Mayur Chavan
Mayur Chavan

Reputation: 1051

You cannot delete the assigned roles which are enabled, you first have to set the flag isEnable to false and save the manifest for the roles which you want to delete like this -->"isEnabled": false in the manifest and now try to delete the whole appRoles part.

This is a two-step process but works.

Upvotes: 0

Praytic
Praytic

Reputation: 2041

I have had the same error message Property value cannot be deleted unless it is disabled first. because I have created the scope on one page page and tried to add it manually in the Manifest on another web page. Little I knew the manifest was updated automatically and I just needed to reload it.

Upvotes: 0

Rajat Negi
Rajat Negi

Reputation: 101

To Delete the Application Role:

  1. Go to application Manifest.
  2. App Role you want to delete, change the value of isEnabled to false.
  3. Save the manifest.
  4. Delete the that approle.
  5. Again save it.

Upvotes: 10

John Henckel
John Henckel

Reputation: 11347

This bug is fixed now. All you have to do is set isEnabled to false and save. Then you can delete the role and save again. A Work-around is not necessary.

Upvotes: 21

Philippe Signoret
Philippe Signoret

Reputation: 14326

Until this gets fixed, there two options to work around this issue:

  1. Using Azure AD PowerShell, you can disable and then remove the app role. Here's a sample script that would achieve this:

    $appId = "83d7d56d-6e64-4791-b8e8-9a8da8dd957e"
$appRoleValue = "app-role-value" # i.e. the scope

Connect-AzureAD

# Disable the AppRole
$app = Get-AzureADApplication -Filter "appId eq '$appId'"
($app.AppRoles | Where-Object { $_.Value -eq $appRoleValue }).IsEnabled = $false
Set-AzureADApplication -ObjectId $app.ObjectId -AppRoles $app.AppRoles

# Remove the AppRole
$toRemove = $app.AppRoles | Where-Object { $_.Value -eq $appRoleValue }
$app.AppRoles.Remove($toRemove) | Out-Null
Set-AzureADApplication -ObjectId $app.ObjectId -AppRoles $app.AppRoles

  2. An alternative option is to user the Azure AD Graph Explorer and issue two PATCH requests on the Application object. The first PATCH request should set the app role's isEnabled attribute to false. The second PATCH request can then remove the app role (i.e. include all existing app roles except the disabled one).

Upvotes: 3

Nan Yu
Nan Yu

Reputation: 27528

It seems a bug in new portal . The save operation doesn't save isEnabled to false on server side . Any feedback , you could post to here .

Currently , you could use Azure AD classic portal to modify the app roles in manifest(download the manifest and then upload manifest that changed) . Delete app roles in classic portal works fine in my environment . Please let me know if it helps.

Upvotes: 3

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