https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/11000/group-deletionHi, We have to remove 2 user groups from Appian. When we Delete these groups from Development environment and take application export then import this application ZIP in higher environment, will deletion reflect in higher environment OR we have toen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/48156?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:07:06 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b89037e8-2704-40db-93e6-c7783ac6e6c0sureshg57deleting a group from lower environment and moving the objects which referred those groups to higher environment will not result in deleting the groups. You will have to delete the groups from all the environments. further more as I understand Object Security will merge when we move code in to higher environments rather than replace.<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/48146?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:36:04 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b9bae487-821d-49fc-af0f-fdbbaf66d53bRama Thummala<a href="/members/jayashrib223">jayashrib223</a> , we have to delete all those groups from higher environments as well.<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/48145?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:30:42 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6854eb33-d2fa-4af3-a29e-8f9591df2f20jayashrib223As per business requirement, we don&#39;t need those 2 groups anymore and they don&#39;t want it to come in audit reports ( which displays all groups/users configured in Appian) as well<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/48144?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:26:33 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:03fc9e08-390a-4ad3-8ba1-e2c0b315e6c9harrisont606Hi, what is the reason you need to delete groups? Generally it is best to not delete objects.<div style="clear:both;"></div>