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Anonymous

Jul 13, 2017

How to reset everything in SharePoint 365/Online

Okay, I have a test account set up to experiement with Office 365 (Business) and have been playing wiht SharePoint a lot. I have managed to mess something up that I cannot edit pages anymore, and wou...

MVP

Jul 14, 2017

Basically there is no way to reset a SPO tenant to the initial state so I recommend, as advised by Andrew, to start with a new Site Collection and completely deleted the non-useful ones...be careful not to delete the root site collection in your tenant

johngto455
Copper Contributor
Apr 20, 2019
I have a similer problem but it is my root site that is a mess. It is a sharepoint 2013 classic site and we (our group) would like to just delete it or upgrade it and start over. We never used it untill now and would love so feedback on how to at least upgrade it and reset the security.jcgonzalezmartin
- Ali Salih
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 21, 2019
  Deleting root site isn’t all that “bad” anymore.
  - akoskinen
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 03, 2020
    Do you mean that deleting the root site could be a good idea if we want to start all over again with SharePoint and nothing has to be saved? Ali Salih