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How to delete Group SPO site if O365Group was deleted?
Hello Dean
u mean to set/add an owner to the orphaned Group Site and to delete it afterwards,right (or do you mean a different approach) ?
Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -owner xxxxxxx@xxxxx.onmicrosoft.com
Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -noWait
NOW, this works but this didn't work last time because i got the message saying that i can't change the Owner of a GroupSite (using the -owner parameter was not allowed for managing a Group Site)
It seems that MS changed something now.
At least i can delete them know "manually"
Do you see in your environment orphaned GROUP SPO's or am i the only one ? :)
Have you waited some hours for the cleanup process to complete? The SPO site should be automatically deleted after the deletion of the associated Group, but the process could be rather slow to complete.
Anyway, we have already discussed many times the issue... For example give a look to this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Force-delete-Group-Site-Collection-after-Group-Deleted/m-p/30853#M1352
Yes. Around 30 hours ago i have deleted the O365Group but the SPO Site still exists.
..so i would say that i have waited long enough :)
Yes i've checked first some of the existing community entries (like the one you have mentioned below) but all of the "workarounds" (example: /_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx) have not helped :(
i'm just curious what others usually do in that case (spo site not deleted automatically and global admin can not delete it manually because of the missing ownership)
thx