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Dean_Gross
Dec 10, 2017Silver Contributor
New sites have numbers at end of URL - how to cleanup?
I'm created some new group enabled sites using the new-pnpsite cmdlet. When they got created, the site urls have numbers at the end, here is an example:
https://tenant.sharepoint.com/teams/oao16
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- Dec 10, 2017Deleted groups are held for 30 days. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54 for how to permanently remove a group. Then the URL should become available after a little while.
Mikael Svenson
Dec 10, 2017Iron Contributor
Deleted groups are held for 30 days. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54 for how to permanently remove a group. Then the URL should become available after a little while.
Dean_Gross
Dec 10, 2017Silver Contributor
Once again, you have given me a great answer :). Thank you very much, the message that was provided in the UI did not provide any clue that this was how it worked
- DeletedDec 10, 2017That will not release the URL you still have to manually delete the SharePoint site afterward via powerhell since for whatever reason the group process doesn’t.
- Mikael SvensonDec 10, 2017Iron Contributor
Deleted wrote:
That will not release the URL you still have to manually delete the SharePoint site afterward via powerhell since for whatever reason the group process doesn’t.Seems to work last time I tested. I’ll retest tomorrow and report.
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- Dec 10, 2017Agree with Mikael, If everything is as it should, the site collection is going to be permanently removed so the URL should be available again