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Is it possible to disconnect a site from an O365 group?
I'm interested in keeping a site collection that is connected to an Office 365 group, but I want to delete the group and "disconnect" it from the site (basically the opposite of what is possible when you "groupify" a team site). Does anyone know if this is a PowerShell command?
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Yes this is possible and quite simple, just run Set-SPOSite with the -cleargroupid parameter
ref: https://www.lieben.nu/liebensraum/2025/12/microsoft-office-server-directory-directoryobjectnotfoundexception/
This was exactly what I needed. I had an orphaned SharePoint site where someone deleted the Team which deleted the M365 group. Our SharePoint sites are all on a retention hold so it wasn't deleted, but the users could no longer access the site because the group was gone. The site's GroupID was still holding the deleted group's value, so I couldn't associate a new group with it. Using the cmdlet you posted cleared the GroupID, which allowed me to create a new group associated with the site. Cheers!
Just for further info in case someone else has this problem, I created the new group by going to https://ORG.sharepoint.com/sites/SITE/_layouts/creategroup.aspx?mode=connectgroup. That takes you to a wizard to setup a new group for the site that only works after the GroupID field is cleared.
bynum Agreed. What a mess in Azure when you create a Team Site? An O365 Microsoft Group is auto-created as the name of the site, but the Groups <Site Name> Owners, < Site Name> Members and <Site name> Visitors are created. Now for some reason the <Site Name> Owners is no longer selectable in SharePoint Online (someone may have deleted) and yet still shows as exists in Members of Site. So basically I need to do the same as disconnect this site from the O365 Group.
This is after waiting days so has surpassed the 24 hour period.
The issue that we had was that we used the 'connect to new Office 365 Group' and then forgot to use the correct naming convention, which was not an idea situation.
As it is not possible to disconnect the site from the new group to do it again, we were able to fix the group (email address) name via these instructions:
AndrewWarland bynum I didn't try this. But, you can take a look at the command available in PowerShell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/remove-spositegroup?view=sharepoint-ps
-Praveen.
Praveen_Battula this remove SharePoint Goups but not Microsoft 365 Groups
- AFAIK, once you have a Group there is not way to disconnect the SharePoint Site from the Group
jcgonzalezmartin if you do find out how to do this, please let me know.
AndrewWarland I would create a new team site and migrate the content between the sites.
