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Delete Azure Trial account and Microsoft 365 Trial Account

Hoppis, Jared 20 Reputation points
2025-08-11T16:11:55.7133333+00:00

I recently created an Azure Free Trial Account as well as a Microsoft 365 Trial Account to test what permissions I needed to do things on my company's tenant. I now no longer need the tenant and was going to delete it. I ran into an issue where there is a vault resource with soft delete enabled, so I cannot delete the tenant. I also cannot go disable the soft delete setting because the Azure subscription is disabled because it was a trial account. I would rather not pay to upgrade the subscription just to delete the tenant. Is there any way to proceed with deleting both my Azure Tenant and my Microsoft 365 account?

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  1. Jose Benjamin Solis Nolasco 4,986 Reputation points
    2025-08-11T16:40:24.9666667+00:00

    @Hoppis, Jared I hope you are doing well,

    Just Wait for Soft Delete retention to expire Even if you can’t access the vault, after the retention period ends, Azure will permanently purge it. For Recovery Services vaults, the period is usually 14 days for backups and 90 days for some workloads.

    See algo https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/soft-delete-blob-overview

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