Cannot delete VM and Resource Group

Question

I am getting an error while trying to delete my VM resource Group and resources.

Have been trying for the past 3 days.

Error: Cannot proceed with operation because resource /subscriptions/a331bec7-55e6-888888888888/resourceGroups/MigrationVM_group/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/MigrationVM-ip used by resource /subscriptions/a331bec7-55e6-888888888888/resourceGroups/MigrationVM_group/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/migrationvm69 is not in Succeeded state. Resource is in Failed state and the last operation that updated/is updating the resource is DeletePublicIpAddressOperation.

Answer 1

Hi TJ Walia

The issue that you are facing arises, when resource removal is not followed correctly as recommended Microsoft.

Here, the error message says that one of the Public IP addresses is still in use there for the network interface is not able to delete. You can try the following Force deletion way from PowerShell

Remove-AzPublicIpAddress -Name MigrationVM-ip-ResourceGroupNameMigrationVM_group -Force

If it is able to remove the public address successfully with the above command, resource deletion will work smoothly!

Hope this helps.

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