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Iron Contributor

Jan 22, 2019

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...

Steel Contributor

Apr 25, 2019

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:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Is-there-a-way-to-change-O365-group-email-address-using/td-p/49872

Praveen_Battula
Copper Contributor
Nov 05, 2019
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.
- _J-K_
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 08, 2021
  Praveen_Battula this remove SharePoint Goups but not Microsoft 365 Groups
- bynum
  Iron Contributor
  Nov 05, 2019
  Praveen_Battula Thanks for the link! I'll try to check it out sometime soon.
  - williepinaga
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 20, 2019
    bynum have you been able to test the PS script to see if you're able to disassociate a team site from O365 group?