Upgrade to a storage account with Azure Data Lake Gen2 capabilities is temporarily disabled

Hi Adrien Desprez,

Thanks for your question on the Microsoft Q&A portal!

As per my understanding you are going to upgrade your Storage Account to enable Data Lake Gen2 capabilities, but you’re stuck at the final step with the message “Upgrade is temporarily disabled.” Although the first two steps pass fine, this last step refuses to start the upgrade.

This is because:

• Sometimes Azure temporarily disables the upgrade process for certain Storage Accounts because of backend maintenance or system updates.
• Your Storage Account might have some features turned on that aren’t compatible with Data Lake Gen2. For example: Blob snapshots, soft delete for blobs or containers, Encryption scopes, Immutable storage
• The upgrade cannot proceed if any of these features are enabled.
• Also, if you recently disabled these features, Azure might still be cleaning up data behind the scenes (like expired soft-deleted blobs), so you’ll need to wait.
• Presence of page blobs in the account blocks the upgrade, so these need to be removed.

Please find below possible steps you can do to resolve this:

1.Check and disable incompatible features: Go to your Storage Account settings and disable blob snapshots, soft delete, encryption scopes, or immutable storage if they’re enabled.

2.Wait for cleanup: After disabling features like soft delete, allow some time for Azure to clean up the data completely.

3.Remove page blobs: Make sure your Storage Account does not contain any page blobs, as these prevent the upgrade.

4..Try again later: If the service temporarily disabled upgrades due to backend reasons, simply waiting a day or two and retrying often helps.

5. Check Azure Service Health: Visit the Azure Status page or your Azure Service Health dashboard for any ongoing Storage Account issues.

Reference documents:

• https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/upgrade-to-data-lake-storage-gen2-how-to?tabs=azure-portal
• https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/upgrade-to-data-lake-storage-gen2-how-to?tabs=azure-portal#prepare-to-upgrade
• https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-overview#features-supported-per-account-type

“Upgrade is temporarily disabled” usually means there’s either incompatible feature enabled, or Azure has temporarily paused upgrades for your account because of backend maintenance or ongoing data cleanup. Review your account features, disable what’s incompatible, wait for cleanup to finish, and then try again.

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Pranitha