How to delete a Linked Service in Data Factory?

Question

I have a Data Factory pipeline that contains a bunch of Linked Services. Some of them are not used anymore and I would like to delete them. However, when I try to delete some of them, Data Factory complains that it is still used with the following error:

Error: Not able to delete linked service, message returned from service - The document cannot be deleted since it is referenced by staging_zone_dim.

Question

I made sure that no Datasets or Pipelines references it and still, I do get the error message when I try to delete the linked services. What am I missing?

Answer 1

I have been able to work around this issue by directly going to the Git repository that contained the json files and deleting the unused configuration files.