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Brent Ellis
Nov 18, 2016Silver Contributor
Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
I don't suppose there is a way to force delete a site collection after the group is deleted? I created a test group that happened to use the name that I now need to use. I deleted that group day...
Greg Jones
Dec 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Jason Gould - I'm in the same boat as you. I have a single site collection where we dump all of our traditional team collaboration sites (as sub-sites) and that Site Collection has a lock on it. I ran through hours and hours of Support and they could never get it fixed. To this day i still can't delete any sub-sites under this one site collection and I'm beyond frustrated that NOT ONE person at Microsoft could resolve this issue. We ran all kinds of scripts to output metadata, i bounced between teams, SharePoint/Compliance and Security. Frustrating to say the least!!
jprimmer
Dec 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Greg Jones I was having the same frustrating issue but was able to get it resolved by Microsoft support. Here was there explanation:
Hi James,
I just got an update from the Engineering team that they were able to remove the hold that they found already. Please check or try again after 24 hours.
Let me know how it goes. Thanks.
Regards,
David
Office 365 Next Team Support
Naturally their explanation doesn't help at all but you might try referencing my ticket number and with any luck the'll have some internal notes on how they resolved it on their end. Ticket number 13659489.
Good luck!