Azure – Unable to delete Azure Recovery Service Vault

Finally was able to remove the vault, after clearing the sql backups from it through powershell. I'm really surprised NO ONE knew about this and it took so much digging to find it.

commands for anyone else having this problem:

These commands are to first see if anything is in the database backups, then remove it all.

$vault = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Name "VaultName"

Set-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVaultContext -Vault $vault

VIEW THE BACKUP ITEMS

$container = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureSQL -FriendlyName $vault.Name

$item = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $container -WorkloadType AzureSQLDatabase

$availableBackups = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $item

$availableBackups      

REMOVE THE BACKUP ITEMS AND VAULT

$containers = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureSQL -FriendlyName $vault.Name

ForEach ($container in $containers)
{
    $items = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupItem -container $container -WorkloadType AzureSQLDatabase

    ForEach ($item in $items)
    {
        Disable-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -item $item -RemoveRecoveryPoints -ea SilentlyContinue
    }

    Unregister-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -Container $container
}

Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Vault $vault

I hope I helped some other people out there who ran into this mess.

WAF policies can be deleted from an application gateway by using the Azure CLI.

Stop the application gateway.

 az network application-gateway stop -g MyResourceGroup -n MyAppGateway

Remove the policy

 az network application-gateway waf-policy delete --name MyApplicationGatewayWAFPolicy --resource-group MyResourceGroup