Stuck: Unable to deploy Dall-e 3, Unable to delete the resource group and AI resource

[Mike (devmike-mjpstrategies)]

I've been working through the Learning Path "Develop computer vision solutions in Azure". Things were going great until I got to the Dall-e 3 exercise at https://microsoftlearning.github.io/mslearn-ai-vision/Instructions/Labs/09-dall-e.html. I followed the instructions: 1. Logged into Azure, 2. selected Dall-e 3 model, 3. selected one of the two AI foundry recommended regions (eastus2), 4. clicked Connect + Deploy.

Then things went off the rails. Azure switched my resource's region to swedencentral, which was the other recommended region. But my project was set up in eastus2. The deployment failed. "No problem" I thought. "I'll just delete the resource group and try again using swedencentral." So I attempted to delete the resource group, which appeared to work at first. But now it's hung in a "Deleting" status. And the swedencentral resource is hung in a "Creating" status. They've been stuck that way all morning with no sign of changing. The Activity log is showing these errors:

Error code
RequestConflict
Message
Cannot modify resource with id '/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-mike-4309/providers/Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/mike-mibtrjun-swedencentral' because the resource entity provisioning state is not terminal. Please wait for the provisioning state to become terminal and then retry the request.

and

Error code
ResourceGroupDeletionBlocked
Message
Deletion of resource group 'rg-mike-4309' failed as resources with identifiers 'Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/mike-mibtrjun-swedencentral' could not be deleted. The provisioning state of the resource group will be rolled back. The tracking Id is '0fac14fa-2cba-498b-aef0-1d2cd1d8dd7f'. Please check audit logs for more details.

[Mike (devmike-mjpstrategies)]

I resolved the issue. I located and followed these instructions, to purge deleted Microsoft Foundry resources. Once I purged the previously deleted resource groups, the underlying resources went into a "Failed" status and I was able to delete them.