Workspace can't be deleted because it says it's included in a deployment pipeline - which it isn't

[carbobox]

I've a premium workspace that I want to delete. It has no content of any kind.

When I try to delete it via workspace setting I get the follow error message:

"Workspace can't be deleted" 

This workspace is included in a deployment pipeline. Before deleting the workspace here, you must first remove it from the pipeline.

Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.

I am admin of the workspace.

I have the Power BI Admin role.

The workspace is not in a pipeline.

I've run "GET api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/pipelines  to show my pipelines, and this workspace is not in a pipeline.

As a result I can't delete the workspace. I've got this on a small number of empty workspaces.

Any ideas, or anything else I can try?

[Alisea_MI]

We had the same issue some time ago. In our case, an orphaned pipeline caused the problem - the owner had left the company and we could only see the pipeline using the admin API.

Best;
Alisea

[PKSI]

Heyy!

Did you manage to resolve this issue? I have the same.

Regards

Patryk

[collinq]

Hi @PKSI , @RMAHON , @flowerkowski , @carbobox , @Alisea_MI ,

I am wondering if there ever WAS a pipeline and it was deleted?  If there is a pipeline that ownership needs to be taken over, then perhaps this thread helps?

Transferring ownership of reports in Power BI Serv... - Microsoft Fabric Community

If not, I would suggest that one of you with this issue contact Microsoft Support and see if they can give us all the right answer.  You can contact them here: Power Platform admin center (microsoft.com)

[Alisea_MI]

Yes, it our case it turned out to be an orphaned pipeline  a colleague had left the company and didn't transfer the ownership. We managed to find it using some Admin APIs.

Alisea

[flowerkowski]

Yes, this was same in our case. Using the Admin API we assigned new owner to the pipeline, deleted it and then deleted the workspace. 

[LeeBenjamin]

Hi @PKSI , 
If a workspace cannot be deleted because it is assigned to a deployment pipeline (the error message indicates it when trying to delete the ws and it doesn't have the button of 'create deployment pipeline' in the workspace page), then a Power BI admin should be able to use the admin APIs to view where the workspace is assigned to and then delete it. see more details here: Admin - Pipelines GetPipelinesAsAdmin - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn
Best,

Lee

[flowerkowski]

Hi @carbobox, @otravers  did you find a solution for this problem? From your screenshot I see that your workspace is in a pipeline called Development:

I have the same issue, I have not created the pipeline called Test for my workspace, I am admin of the workspace and Tenant admin and I cannot delete the pipeline if I did not create it:

If anyone has a solution for this I would be grateful.

I get the same error when calling the Delete Group API call:

Thanks.

[Alisea_MI]

Hi, @carbobox ! 

I am having exactly the same issue. Did you manage to solve yours?

Bets regards

Alisea

[otravers]

Have you seen the following thread? This could be a dependency across workspaces:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Delete-workspace-in-pipeline/m-p/2482696

[carbobox]

Hi,

Thanks for that, and the speedy reply.

I've seen that thread. There is no content in the workspace at all, so I can see there is no datasets from any another workspace.

There is no "Create a pipeline" option available, see the image, but it does appear to be in pipeline although, as mentioned, I've only one pipeline in my tenant, and this workspace is not in it. I was going to try the API to remove a workspace from an pipeline, but I can't do that because it's not in a pipeline (and the API needs the pipeline ID to remove the workspace).

I've aslo tried changing the workspace from a premium workspace to see if that change anything, but get the same error.

Thanks for your help.

[otravers]

Since you want to delete the workspace entirely, have you tried the following API call to see whether it accepts to work unlike the UI?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/groups/delete-group

[carbobox]

Hi,

Thanks, I tried, error stating connected to pipeline, like the UI:

{ "error": { "code": "ALM_InvalidRequest_CannotDisableFoldersThatAreConnectedToAnyALMPipeline", "pbi.error": { "code": "ALM_InvalidRequest_CannotDisableFoldersThatAreConnectedToAnyALMPipeline", "parameters": {}, "details": [], "exceptionCulprit": 1 } } }

Thanks

[RMAHON]

Hi Carbobox,

Did you resolve this?  I have the same problem.

Regards

Rob

[RMAHON]

Hi,

Yes I resolved it with the REST APIs in powershell.  This might save you some time:

Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount

# View all pipelines and get the GUID for the one you want to delete.
Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -url 'https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/pipelines' -Method GET

# Add my service account to the pipeline
$body="{ 'identifier': 'Rufus@MYORG.onmicrosoft.com', 'accessRight': 'Admin', 'principalType': 'User'}"
Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -url "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/pipelines/{GUID}/users" -Method Post -body $body

# Delete the pipeline
Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -url "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/pipelines/{GUID}" -Method Delete

# Check that it is deleted. (Error : ALM_InvalidRequest_PipelineNotFound expected)
Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -url 'https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/pipelines/{GUID}' -Method GET

# Delete the workspace, via the portal

Regards

Rob