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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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jfranz
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May 28, 2019

techie1s you can now accomplish this by going into the new modern SharePoint admin center, go to the DELETED SITES section, find the site you want, check it then go to PERMANENTLY DELETE. The site will be gone. 

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mattchowell
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May 20, 2022
The right answer!
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    mattchowell
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 18, 2022

    Actually I realize now that's not always the right answer...Msft has made such a hash job of site deletion that sometimes even if you "permanently delete" a site from SP admin deleted sites page, you still can't reuse its url. It just happened to me so in that scenario you still need powershell:

    Connect-SPOService -Url https://xxx-admin.sharepoint.com
    Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/deletedsite

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