In this article, we will be fixing “DeletingCloudOnlyObjectNotAllowed” in Azure AD.
I recently had this error in an Azure AD Connect environment where a user was not properly terminated and resulted in a “DeletingCloudOnlyObjectNotAllowed” error. Working with Azure Support eventually got it working but only after we used the following Powershell commands.
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Import-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Install-Module MSOnline
Install-Module AzureADPreview
Connect-MsolService -Credential $Cred
Connect-AzureAD -Credential $Cred
Get-AzureADUser | Where {$_.DirSyncEnabled -eq $null} | Set-MsolUser -ImmutableId “$null”
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Initial
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta
This resulted in clearing out the error and no Azure AD Connect errors being present.