Delete Personal Workspaces of Former Employees

[mstaples]

How can I delete personal workspaces of former employees? I'm not getting the option to delete as I do with a standard workspace.

[v-karpurapud]

Hi @mstaples 

We appreciate your contribution. Please note that Microsoft regularly reviews ideas shared by the community, and your suggestion may be considered for future updates.

Thank you once again, and we encourage you to continue engaging with the Microsoft Fabric Community.

Best regards.

[v-karpurapud]

Hi @mstaples 

As @collinq mentioned, administrators do not have a direct way to delete a user’s My workspace. These personal workspaces are connected to the user’s account and, as @MasonMA pointed out, are only soft-deleted automatically when the user is removed from Microsoft Entra ID. If an administrative option to delete personal workspaces is important, please note that Microsoft considers feedback from the community, so upvoting the relevant idea in the ideas forum could help it be considered for future updates.

If you have any further questions, please let us know. we can assist you further.

Regards,

Microsoft Fabric Community Support Team.

[collinq]

Hey @mstaples ,

There is no way as an administrator to delete personal workspaces.  Please vote for that functionality here:
Need an option for admins to delete personal works... - Microsoft Fabric Community

[MasonMA]

@mstaples 

Hi, If you look at 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/portal-workspaces

"When users are deleted from the company's Active Directory, their My workspaces show up as Deleted in the State column on the Workspaces page in the Admin portal. Fabric admins can restore deleted My workspaces as app workspaces that other users can collaborate in." 

The conclusion is Personal workspaces are tied to a user’s account. When that user exists, so does their workspace and when the user is removed from Microsoft Entra ID, their personal workspace is automatically soft-deleted.