Delete directory content using Azure Automation DSC

I am using Azure Automation DSC to deploy some basic configurations on my Azure VMs. However, I am struggling to delete recursively all the content of C:/Temp directory and leave the directory as an empty folder.

I am using the following code:

$temp_dir           = "C:\temp\"  

File "Clean Temp Folder" # Delete $temp_dir Directory 
        { 
            Ensure          = "Absent" 
            Type            = "Directory" 
            Recurse         = $true 
            DestinationPath = $temp_dir
            Force           = $true 
        }

As soon as I assign node configuration to the VM, C:/Temp/ folder gets deleted completely, but if I recreate it manually afterwards it won't be deleted on the next DSC run even though the Force parameter is set to true.
Any suggestions are very welcome!

The issue was on the Azure side. While I was registering nodes in DSC, the configuration mode was set to ApplyAndMonitor. The bad thing is that the setting was not visible for the already registered node, but after re-registering the issue was solved.

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