Deactive Admin user

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Hi Community,

I have a Databricks account and workspaces that were previously setup by a user who is no longer with our company and I am attempting to remove admin access and deactive the user account. However as an Account admin user myself, when I attempt to use the API to patch the user, I get `Not allowed to activate or deactivate user` and when I attempt to remove the Account admin role I also get - `PERMISSION_DENIED: Cannot remove roles`.

Any suggestions on how to deactive this user? Are there ownerships that I need to transfer first?

Thanks