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Group SharePoint Sites with O365 Groups that doesn't exist
Hello, I have noticed that there are quite a few Group sites in our tenant for which group doesn't exist. I am not sure if it's a normal behavior but I do have some questions. - Under what ci...
- Unfortunately there is no way to prevent something that should not happen :-(. In regards of a way to determine the owner, I'm afraid it's not possible because the former Group is the owner...try to add a new owner to each site instead.
In regards of your question about adding a Team, I think there is not a supported way to do this since your sites are orphaned sites not linked to Groups so you cannot potentially create Teams based on those Groups that don't exist anymore....best you can do here in my opinion is to create a copy of the contents of the sites, delete them and recreate your Groups
How did you confirm that the Group does not exist? have you looked in the Group recycle bin?
You can look for deleted groups with the Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup cmdlet
To confirm the group doesn't exist, I checked all existing groups in portal and recycle bin. Apart from that, I also wrote a powershell script that check sharepoint url to search through all the group's sharepoint site url.