> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.box.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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# Deprovision Users

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Part of regular Box enterprise maintenance is removing accounts for users that
are no longer active in your enterprise. When removing a user from your
enterprise, you'll need to move all content owned by the user into another
account before deleting the user account.

<Note>
  The delete user request will fail if the user account still has content in
  it. An optional `force` parameter is available in the API call, which will
  force delete the user account along with all content in the account.
</Note>

The standard best practice when decommissioning a user account is to move all
content owned by that user into another admin level account or into the
application service account. Once moved, you can transfer ownership of the
content to a different user or collaborate a different user on the content if
needed.

## Deprovisioning Example

Use the following code samples to transfer a user's content and then delete the
user. When content is being transferred, a new folder is created in the
destination user's root folder following this pattern:
`employee_email@email.com - employee_name's Files and Folders`

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Node">
    ```js  theme={null}
    'use strict'
    const box = require('box-node-sdk');
    const fs = require('fs');

    let configFile = fs.readFileSync('config.json');
    configFile = JSON.parse(configFile);

    let session = box.getPreconfiguredInstance(configFile);
    let serviceAccountClient = session.getAppAuthClient('enterprise');

    const transferUserID = '3278487052';
    (async () => {
        let serviceAccount = await serviceAccountClient.users.get('me');
        let transferredFolder = await serviceAccountClient.enterprise.transferUserContent(transferUserID,serviceAccount.id);
        console.log(transferredFolder);
        await serviceAccountClient.users.delete(transferUserID, null);
        console.log('Completed');
    })();
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Java">
    ```java  theme={null}
    Path configPath = Paths.get("config.json");
    try (BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(configPath,Charset.forName("UTF-8"))){
        String transferUserId = "3277722534";

        BoxConfig boxConfig = BoxConfig.readFrom(reader);
        BoxDeveloperEditionAPIConnection serviceAccountClient = BoxDeveloperEditionAPIConnection
          .getAppEnterpriseConnection(boxConfig);

        BoxUser destinationUser = new BoxUser(serviceAccountClient,
            BoxUser.getCurrentUser(serviceAccountClient).getID());
        try {
            destinationUser.moveFolderToUser(transferUserId);
        } catch (BoxAPIException e) {}

        BoxUser removeUser = new BoxUser(serviceAccountClient, transferUserId);
        removeUser.delete(false, false);
    }
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title=".NET">
    ```csharp  theme={null}
    using(FileStream fs = new FileStream("./config.json", FileMode.Open)) {
        var config = BoxConfig.CreateFromJsonFile(fs);
        var session = new BoxJWTAuth(config);
        var serviceAccountClient = session.AdminClient(session.AdminToken());

        var transferUserId = "3276247601";

        var serviceAccount = await serviceAccountClient.UsersManager.GetCurrentUserInformationAsync();
        var moveAction = await serviceAccountClient.UsersManager.MoveUserFolderAsync(transferUserId,serviceAccount.Id);

        System.Console.WriteLine(moveAction.Name);
        await serviceAccountClient.UsersManager.DeleteEnterpriseUserAsync(transferUserId,false,false);
    }
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="CLI">
    ```shell  theme={null}
    box users:transfer-content $transfer_from_user_id $transfer_to_user_id
    box users:delete $transfer_from_user_id --yes
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<RelatedLinks
  title="RELATED APIS"
  items={[
  { label: translate("Delete user"), href: "/reference/delete-users-id", badge: "DELETE" }
]}
/>

<RelatedLinks
  title="RELATED GUIDES"
  items={[
  { label: translate("Transfer Files & Folders"), href: "/guides/users/deprovision/transfer-folders", badge: "GUIDE" }
]}
/>