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Silver Contributor

Nov 18, 2016

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...

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Ángel Alegre García

Copper Contributor

Oct 01, 2017

Hi Brent Ellis!

I have a similar issue.

I created an Office 365 group, which automatically created a team site.

I deleted the team site and the group manually, and now I cannot reuse that url in a new team site because Office will add some random numbers at the end. However, if I try to access that URL I get a 403 FORBIDDEN error because the group has been deleted.

Anybody knows how I can get back this url??

Thanks!
Ángel.-

Ángel Alegre García

Copper Contributor

Oct 01, 2017

Looks that the site was inaccessible, but it still existed.

Had to use PowerShell to delete it and free the url.

Followed Henk Luggenhorst instructions:

First unlock the SharePoint site:

Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -LockState Unlock

Then add your global admin account:

Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -owner <your global admin account>

Then delete the site.

It worked great :)

Thanks a lot!!