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Brass Contributor

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
Jun 06, 2018
Similarly, you can permanently remove the deleted site using Remove-SPODeletedSite cmdlet.

Peter_Morris

Copper Contributor

May 07, 2019

Manidurai Mohanamariappan

So This morning it tried to give me an ITS2 site when I wanted an ITS site. As I was gathering information for you it allowed the ITS site but when I tried to save it, I got a "group" already exists. I suspect it's Office365.

See screenshots attached/below.

ellan1537

Iron Contributor

May 07, 2019

Peter_Morris In Office 365, if there is an exchange group (also called Office 365 Group) already existing with name ITS, then creation of any SharePoint site/Teams with same name appends '2' in the URL (like /ITS2/).

This is because, creating any Office 365 Group thru exchange (outlook) OR Teams will auto-create a SharePoint site in Office 365.

Peter_Morris
Copper Contributor
May 08, 2019
ellan1537
Thanks for this. I'd guessed it would be an O365 group causing it issues. Will look into how to remove that now. Got our O365 Admin to have a go but it hasn't worked so far. Might be more work involved.
Peter