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Delete an abandoned workspace

We had a cloud hosted development machine used by a partner. The developer left but never deleted his workspace.

The user was deleted first from D365 F&O, Azure DevOps and Azure AD.


Later on, that machine was given to another developer. Of course he could not map the workspace with his user.


That's why I run the following commands :


tf workspaces /collection:"https://dev.azure.com/xxxxxxxxxDevOps" /owner:*


tf workspaces /collection:"https://dev.azure.com/xxxxxxxxxDevOps" /Computer:devxxxxxxxxx /owner:*


and finally


tf workspace /server:https://dev.azure.com/xxxxxxxxxDevOps /delete devxxxxxxxxx ;"Anthony xxxxxxxx"


But I got the following error

So I tried with the email address but I still got the same error


tf workspace /delete /server:https://dev.azure.com/xxxxxxxxxDevOps 'devxxxxxxxxx;"axxxxxxxx@xxx.com"


The solution is to run the command: tf workspaces /computer:* /owner:* /format:xml


Then in the XML there are aliases for the owner. We need to use the one with GUID code and the email address



Run the following command


tf workspace /delete devxxxxxxxxx;e9c37c5a-297d-4237-9bda-8cbe473ac6a3\axxxxxxxx@xxx.com


Are you sure you want to delete the workspace? (Yes/No) Yes


It works, the workspace was deleted.











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