Documentation for Crowd 1.0. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.
Deactivating an application prevents principals (users) from logging in to the application. You might do this if you are making changes to an application and need to temporarily keep users out of it.
Deleting an application removes the application's details and its directory mappings. You would typically only do this if the application is no longer required.
To deactivate an application,
To reactivate the application, follow the same steps but select the 'Active' check-box.
To delete an application,
The application will be removed from Crowd and will no longer appear in the Application Browser.
The 'crowd' application (i.e. the Crowd Administration Console) cannot be deleted or deactivated.