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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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mattchowell
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May 20, 2022
The right answer!
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mattchowell
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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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