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Iron Contributor

Jul 03, 2019

unable to delete a SP modern team site "The site can't be deleted becuase it's connected to office."

i have created a new sharepoint modern team site using the office 365 admin, then i wanted to remove the site collection and create a brand new one. So from Office 365 >> Groups >> i remove the relat...

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ChrisHoardMVP

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Jul 03, 2019

Hi

See article here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Force-delete-Group-Site-Collection-after-Group-Deleted/td-p/30853

There is a workaround identified in here to delete the site. However this doesn’t seem to work for everyone. General consensus seems to be if it doesn’t work for you then to raise a ticket to support on this one.

Hope that answers your question. I’ll look into it further if you can’t do it per the article.

Best, Chris

john john

Iron Contributor

Jul 03, 2019

ChrisHoardMVP

ChrisHoardMVP wrote:
Hi John John

Long standing issue - deleting an Office 365 Group before deleting the Site Collection

See article here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Force-delete-Group-Site-Collection-after-Group-Deleted/td-p/30853

There is a workaround identified in here to delete the site. However this doesn’t seem to work for everyone. General consensus seems to be if it doesn’t work for you then to raise a ticket to support on this one.

Hope that answers your question

Best, Chris

I restored the deleted sharepoint site and the deleted Office 365 group. then i removed the Office 365 group >> but the SP site still showed inside the active sites list, and i got a message that this site does not have Office 365 group and if i want to delete it,, so i remove the SP site and i got the same message when i tried to remove it permanent from recycle bin ... seems deleting an Office 365 Group before deleting the Site Collection will not work also..

ChrisHoardMVP
MVP
Jul 03, 2019
Hi

Got it. See article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/delete-site-collection

You need Powershell to finish this off.

Hope that answers your question.

Best, Chris
- john john
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 03, 2019
  
  ChrisHoardMVP wrote:
  Hi
  
  Got it. See article
  
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/delete-site-collection
  
  You need Powershell to finish this off.
  
  Hope that answers your question.
  
  Best, Chris
  ChrisHoardMVP seems this does not want to work :), here what i did exactly:-
  
  1. using Office 365 admin center >> I removed the office 365 named OurCompanyTest.
  2. Then using Office 365 admin center >> i removed the sharepoint site which have this url /sites/OurCompanyTest/
  3. Then using this power-shell command Remove-SPODeletedSite -Identity i removed the deleted SP site.
  4. then i went back to SP central admin >> create new team site >> I enter the name of the site to be the same as the deleted site OurCompanyTest >> but the url for the new site got "2" at the end of it as follow /sites/ OurCompanyTest2/.. and this is not what i want to have !! any idea?
  - ChrisHoardMVP
    MVP
    Jul 03, 2019
    Hmm, we are having a good bit of fun with this one.
    
    A good article is right here - see scenario 2
    
    https://www.morgantechspace.com/2018/07/how-to-reuse-deleted-sharepoint-site-url.html?m=1
    
    You would need to run Powershell Command with the SharePoint module
    
    Remove-SPODeletedSite -Identity https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/OurCompanyTest
    
    After that run the following to make sure it’s deleted
    
    Get-SPODeletedSite
    
    Let me know how it goes
    
    Best, Chris