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Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
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 ?
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?
Perfect... it fix the issue..
Thank
Not working for me
- 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
Microsoft
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?
But I am global admin and both created the group and deleted it but I got support from microsoft today and from powershell it was no problem to remove it. The commands that I used from SharePoint Online Management shell was connect-sposervice and remove-sposite
I think it was the owner of the Group that performed the action and hence was authorised. Otherwise you probably need a SharePoint admin to have required permissions..
I have alreay tested that and I got the response that I wasn't allowed to do that and gave a form to request permission but I supposed that form went into a black hole or something.
I have a feeling that one of our admins manipulated the standard delete URL to get to relevant SPO function. I don't have a spare Team/ Group to test on though.
https://heathrowportal.sharepoint.com/teams/teaching_Liher/_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx
- cfiessingerPlease open a support with ticket so we can get this fixed.
