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Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
Nicholas Byng-Maddick wrote:We have the same situation with groups being apended with other numbers and are looking to tidy up these groups. Interestingly trying to use the delete option and despite being Global Admin and Sharepoint Admin I am refused permission to the site.
Has anyone experienced this or do I need to be Exchange Admin to acheve this deletion ?
I have the exact same thing happen to me, did you found a solution?
MicrosoftPerfect... it fix the issue..
Thank
- Very helpful. Had some sites get hung after group deletion and this does the trick
Oh Henk you rock! before 4 hours I can solve this with your method. Thanks!
There is an other thread on this problem: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Cannot-delete-sharepoint-after-I-delete-a-group/m-p/57949/highlight/false#M2881
I just posted a solution that helped me:
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.
- David Rosenthal
This whole thread makes me think that a lot of this on the backend is some sort of sync process, and I generally hate sync processes as they tend to always break or get "stuck" :) Is the team watching the failure rate of these sorts of actions to prioritize ways to improve the reliability? Nothing erodes user confidence faster than an action they see as simple, like a delete, not functioning properly!
We all know how complex this actually is, but explaining that to a user nets you "the look" which I'm sure you've all seen. This stuff needs to become bulletproof over time.
This has never worked for me. I believe I reported this when we were still using Yammer Group for communication. 4-5 months ago?
