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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 ? :)
- Yeap, I remember also from time to time this issue of having orphan group sites that are not deleted...have you tried to remove it using PowerShell
Yes. I tried to remove it via Remove-SPOSite....but it gives me '"Access Denied" although i'm Global Admin :)
In my tenant i see dozens of orphaned SPO Sites :(
I opened already a Support Ticket. Will let you know the outcomequick update:
i still have plenty of orphaned group spo sites which i can't delete as Global Admin
(Access denied message if i use Remove-SPOSite cmdlet)
MS support deleted "manually" some of my orphaned group sites...and closed the ticket (a root cause analysis is not covered with the normal support :(((
So i'm still facing the issue that if i delete a O365Group, the underlying SPO Group Site remains (as well the MS Team in case the O365 group was created via Teams).
Support told me that Remove-SPOSite should work but in fact it doesn't.
Does anyone have other ideas how i can delete orphaned Group Spo's without contacting MS Support ?
I personally have not tried to delete recently in any means.
