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What's the recommended way to completely remove a modern teamsite?
Hello,
I'd like to get your point of view on the "correct" way on how to remove a modern teamsite.
The reason I'm asking is because once I remove an Office 365 group, either via O365 admi...
This is what I have in my notes that I use:
Sometimes you may want to permanently purge a group without waiting the 30 days for the soft-delete to expire. To do that start PowerShell and run this command to get the object ID of the group
Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup
Take note of the object ID of the group, or groups, you want to permanently delete.
CAUTION: Purging the group removes the group and its data forever.
To purge the group run this command in PowerShell
Remove-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject –Id <objectId>
To confirm that the group has been successfully purged, run the Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup cmdlet again to confirm that the group no longer appears on the list of soft-deleted groups. In some cases it may take as long as 24 hours for the group and all of its data to be permanently deleted.
From <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1>
When you remove a Group, it's not permanently deleted....is just soft-deleted and it stays in that state for 30 days