In case you want to cleanup some background data in a Sandbox environment but your Bulk Deletion Jobs are failing? Here’s why.

Canceled Bulk Deletion

Below is what you would see –

1. Once you set a Bulk Deletion job in a Sandbox environment, you notice the below –
   The Bulk Deletion Job gets Canceled without even deleting a single record!
   
   
2. There’s a specific reason for why this is happening. Let’s look below.

Background Process

Here’s why the Bulk Deletion job keeps failing –

1. The reason Bulk Deletion jobs are getting Canceled in the Sandbox environment is because of the Background Processes.
   In case the Environment is in Administration Mode.
   Open the Environment Power Platform Admin Center (https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments) and Go inside the Environment.
   Look for the Edit button.
   
   
2. You’ll find that the Administration mode might be enabled. But besides that, the Background operations might be disabled.
   This is causing the Bulk Deletion jobs to fail.
   
   
3. And when you restart the process, you’ll find that the Bulk Deletion Jobs will start deleting the items and will be In Progress.
   

Hope this helps!

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