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Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
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!!
A few steps missing in this explanation
First you need to download and install the SP snap-ins for Powershell
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=35588
Then you can execute the SP commands in PowerShell. The next command must be run on the -admin site of your tenancy:
Connect-SPOService -url https://<yourtenancy>-admin.sharepoint.com/
Then finally you can run the commands mentioned before for the deletion of the site:
Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<yourtenancy>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site> -LockState Unlock Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<yourtenancy>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site> -owner <admin@domain.com> Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://<yourtenancy>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site>
Hope this helps!
Here is what I noticed, though: This seems to be a problem when a group is created via Yammer and then pushed from Yammer into O365 as a group. At the time of this writing, O365 does not support creating an O365 groups that is then pushed into Yammer.
Very simple and effective description to follow. Well done Pedro!
Thanks for the info.
