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SharePoint Online: What Happens to Sub Sites if You Delete the Parent Site?
Hi SharePoint Experts, I am starting to build out a fresh SharePoint Online site for my group, and am still going back and forth on what the optimal design is to optimize the navigation and user ...
Hi Douglas,
SharePoint will prevent you from deleting a site if there are subsites underneath. You'll get the following error when you try to:
There was a problem deleting Web site "[server relative url]". Sites that have subsites or certain apps can't be deleted. Please try again after deleting all subsites and removing the apps.
Hope this helps!