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Brent Ellis
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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cfiessinger
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Jan 19, 2017
Brent please contact our support team to get this addressed
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Jan 19, 2017
Some feedback here: it could be nice to provide some alerting to the user that deletes the Group advising when Group componentes has been deleted
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    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 25, 2017
    I've opened a support ticket. Upon further review, no Group that I have ever created and deleted (around 10) had its corresponding SP site removed.
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      Brent Ellis
      Silver Contributor
      Jan 26, 2017
      So interesting resolution, the direct url: /_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx did it (where trying to go via site settings and powershell didnt work)

      As soon as I deleted one manually that way, the rest of them seem to have deleted themselves. Maybe the first one just go hung up in a delete job and was preventing the rest from doing the same
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        DavidJhernandez
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 04, 2020

        Brent Ellis 

         

        Hi Brent,

        on 01-26-2017 08:42 AM you wrote the following :

        "Brent Ellis replied to Brent Ellis‎ 01-26-2017 08:42 AM
        Re: Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
        So interesting resolution, the direct url: /_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx did it (where trying to go via site settings and powershell didn't work).  As soon as I deleted one manually that way, the rest of them seem to have deleted themselves. Maybe the first one just go hung up in a delete job and was preventing the rest from doing the same".

         

        I am experiencing 3 group tiles that I have deleted from Admin Center > SharePoint Admin Center > Sites > Active Sites > Delete from here, have also deleted the groups from Portal.azure.com > Azure Active Dir > Groups, and have also deleted the groups from power shell, nothing works. Now, would you please spell out the URL in full because I couldn't follow that URL.  I will appreciate it big timie.

         

        DH