Comments on: Couldn’t Delete this user because the account is synchronized

By: Ciarán McCarthy

Ciarán McCarthy

Thanks, had a user I couldn’t delete and it would send a bounce to anyone who sent an all staff email. This sorted it!

By: Rob

Rob

Had this same problem and eventually, I realized I just had to go into the Azure AD part and click delete the user and it deleted.

By: Prabin Bhusal

Prabin Bhusal

Thank You Very Much

By: Mangesh Jadhav

Mangesh Jadhav

Worked fine. Excellent Post.

By: Oliver

Oliver

Beware:
I tried this and found it not to be a 3 second task. the change each way can take upto 72 hours each way.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/troubleshoot/active-directory/pending-state-issue-with-directory-synchronization

You need to wait until ‘(Get-MSOLCompanyInformation).DirectorySynchronizationStatus’ stops returning the value of ‘PendingDisabled’

If it still says ‘PendingDisabled’ then ‘Set-MsolDirSyncEnabled -EnableDirSync $true’ will error. “Set-MsolDirSyncEnabled : You cannot turn off Active Directory synchronization.”

By: John Mc

John Mc

Awesome stuff. Thank you

By: Ayonilson

Ayonilson

fantastic , it works. thank you