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techie1s
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Jun 05, 2018
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Reusing a Deleted SharePoint Site Name

QUESTION: Can a new site be created with the same name of a deleted site?   SCENARIO: Today I deleted a SharePoint Team Site (O365) that I created yesterday. Now I want to create a SharePoint Commu...
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  • Manidurai Mohanamariappan's avatar
    Manidurai Mohanamariappan
    Jun 06, 2018

    Similarly, you can permanently remove the deleted site using  Remove-SPODeletedSite cmdlet.

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Setayesh2
Copper Contributor
Jan 27, 2021

Manidurai Mohanamariappan 

 

I had the same problem. Created a team site but wanted to free up the name and create a communication site. I first changed the name to 'site2' but couldn't use the name so deleted the site through the suggestion in this topic. but still cannot use the name for the new site.

 

Anyone can advise?

 

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koates
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Jan 27, 2021

Setayesh2 , I found that when I renamed a site it made the problem worse by adding redirects. Did you check to see if there are any lingering redirects (essentially aliases for the site name).?

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    Setayesh2
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 27, 2021

    koates 

    Not sure, Where should I check? I didn't make any alias for that. there was just a deleted office 365 group, I deleted that permanently after deleting the site. 

     

     

    Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/site1 helped me to fix it.

     

    Thanks

    • tim-b790's avatar
      tim-b790
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 29, 2021
      Setayesh2 After scrabbling around all day , i found that after running the PS command 'Connect-SPOService' and filling in the Admin site 'xxxx.admin.sharepoint.com' URL ( not the normal site ) then once authenticated running the command 'Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/siteyouwantremoved' worked for me so thank you for that

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