How to delete a private DNS zone in Azure?

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How to delete a private DNS zone in Azure?

William Menezes 0

I'm trying to delete a private DNS resource that was never provisioned correctly.

Errors I'm receiving:

Portal: I'm getting a generic "The resource operation completed with the terminal provisioning state 'Failed'" when trying to delete the resource in the Azure portal.

Az PS:

Remove-AzResource -ResourceId "/subscriptions/4a59ff40-b8a0-498d-962b-995a9e4d9e28/resourceGroups/az104-rg4/providers/Microsoft.Network/privateDnsZones/private.acmecorp.com" -Force -Confirm:$false

When I tried the command above, I receive:
- Remove-AzResource:{"code":"BadRequest","message":"The request was invalid."} CorrelationId: 4d701a5b-4760-4eba-a2c2-6ec57789422a

Things I've checked:

I have owner access to the resource
There are no locks on the resource
There are no Vnets linked
There are no recordsets (except the default)

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Answer 1

Hi William Menezes,

Thank you for reaching out on Microsoft Q&A forum

To help you with above blocker , please try to execute below steps:

From portal

Please navigate to the Azure portal, go to Resource Groups, select the resource group that contains your private DNS zone, and then try to delete it from there.
Sometimes accessing the resource from RG can help & can provide more detailed error messages.
Please check any dependencies on custom roles or policies attached to the resource.

Via Power shell

Instead of usingRemove-AzResource, which is generally for Azure resources , try using following command to delete a DNS zone, this command targets the DNS zone directly .

Remove-AzDnsZone -Name "private.acmecorp.com" -ResourceGroupName "az104-rg4"

Sometimes resources get stuck in a failed state and cannot be deleted until its state is reset, so we can try a state reset which may trigger a new provisioning cycle and allow deletion afterward.

Use the following command to do above:

Set-AzPrivateDnsZone -ResourceGroupName "az104-rg4" -Name "private.acmecorp.com"

Please find the below link for failed provisioning state referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/troubleshoot-failed-state

Via CLI

We can also try to delete from azure CLI, please try below cmd to delete the resource.

az network private-dns zone delete --resource-group az104-rg4 --name private.acmecorp.com

If you find this comment helpful, please “up-vote” for the information provided , this can be beneficial to community members.

Kindly let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks

Answer 2

TP 145.1K Volunteer Moderator

Hi William,

Please open Azure Cloud Shell (PowerShell mode) and run command similar to below:

Remove-AzPrivateDnsZone -Name private.acmecorp.com -ResourceGroupName az104-rg4 -Debug -Confirm:$false

By using -Debug you should get more information that we can examine for clues as to why the deletion is failing. You can copy/paste the output into Notepad.

If you would like you can reply in comment with output as an attachment, but please obfuscate anything confidential first. Things like subscription id, tenant id, zone name, etc.

Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

Thanks.

-TP

William Menezes 0 Reputation points

2025-09-10T11:23:52.8533333+00:00

RemoveDNSZoneOutput.txt

I've attached the result from running the command in debug mode and redacted the sensitive information.
TP 145.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2025-09-11T10:00:17.26+00:00

Thanks. I looked at the file and unfortunately it isn't giving us much to go on.

1. Please navigate to the resource group where the private dns zone is, then click on Manage view -- Show hidden types. Do you see any resources show up, link Virtual Network Links?

I was researching and there are people that were unable to delete their Private DNS Zone and it showed 0 virtual network links just like in your case, but it turned out a link still existed. In their case the error message was different, so I don't have high hopes.

2. Please try to delete using REST API using older API version. To do this, open separate tab while signed in to portal and navigate to below link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/dns/privatedns/private-zones/delete?view=rest-dns-privatedns-2018-09-01&tabs=HTTP

Click the green Try It button, on right click to sign in using existing account, select your directory, enter your private dns zone name and resource group, then click Run

Please reply back with your results, let me know if error message/output is different, etc.
Priya ranjan Jena 2,295 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-09-11T10:29:00.0166667+00:00

Hi William Menezes,

Please update in case if you tried those above steps given in comment by me & if you find comment helpful, please “up-vote” for the information provided.

Kindly let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks
Priya ranjan Jena 2,295 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-09-15T07:53:36.4833333+00:00

Hi William Menezes,

Please update in case if you tried those above steps given in comment by me & if you find comment helpful, please “up-vote” for the information provided.

Thanks
William Menezes 0 Reputation points

2025-09-23T01:08:37.99+00:00

Hi @Priya ranjan Jena

Still no luck on this issue. Please provide next steps.
Priya ranjan Jena 2,295 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-09-23T02:06:29.9166667+00:00

Hi Wiliam,

We have requested some details in a private message. Could you please check and share them in message with us?

Thanks
William Menezes 0 Reputation points

2025-11-04T01:02:05.6033333+00:00

Hi @Priya ranjan Jena Can you please send me another private message for this issue. We never connected last time.

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