I deleted a test group but the sharepoint site did not delete and I don't see in in the sharepoint admin center. It is hidden from my view. I tried deleting the site from within the site itself (settings menu --> site settings) but doing that just brings me back to the documents folder :smileymad:

I also had the same problem. Deleted some Office 365 Groups, but the SharePoint sites were not deleted. Trying to add my own global admin account as an owner using Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -owner <your global admin account> did not work. The site was "not cuurently available" according the Powershell error message. Apperently the site was locked. Unlocking the site using Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -LockState Unlock made it possible the add the global admin account. After adding the global admin account there was no problem deleting the SharePoint site. I hope this works for everybody.

Many thanks Juan Carlos, it works!!!You save my day.Gracias de nuevo.

The Group site should be deleted when the Group is deleted...if that's not the case, to avoid the redirection, append to the Url ?noredirect=true

You can try using PowerShell to delete the site collection, here are the scripts. A SharePoint site collection created by an Office 365 group currently will not show up in the SharePoint Online admin center.

that site with the powershell scripts no longer exists. I have the same problem described above. I deleted some groups but their sites still remain. I tried to go in and delete the sistes from sharepoint admin but there is not option to delete them.

Cannot delete sharepoint after I delete a group

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Tomas Paulas
Brass Contributor
Aug 24, 2017
Great guys, thank you for your help here. Any clue about other leftovers ? Exchange, Teams...

Thanks
Tomas
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Aug 27, 2017
  AFAIK, No...the only once causing problems when deleting a Group seems to be SPO
  - StefanFried
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 27, 2017
    and it looks like sometimes OneNote too
    
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Deleted-sharepoint-group-but-onenote-notebooks-are-stil-there/m-p/140041#M7509
Drew Madelung
MVP
Nov 14, 2016
You can try using PowerShell to delete the site collection, here are the scripts. A SharePoint site collection created by an Office 365 group currently will not show up in the SharePoint Online admin center.
- Martin Crisp
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 27, 2017
  that site with the powershell scripts no longer exists.
  
  I have the same problem described above. I deleted some groups but their sites still remain. I tried to go in and delete the sistes from sharepoint admin but there is not option to delete them.
  - StefanFried
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 29, 2017
    Are you talking about deleting a Group SPO Site ? (a SPO Site which was created via an O365 Group)
    
    I had (or still have) exactly the same case where a SPO Site remain available after i deleted the O365 Group.
    In order to delete a SPO, you need to add an globald admin account as an owner to the site
    
    Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -owner <your global admin account>
    
    afterwards trigger the removal by issuing this cmdlet
    Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://<name>/sites/<sitename> -NoWait
    
    SideNote:
    i had the issue that i couldn't add an owner to ANY Group SPO's. So i had to open a MS support ticket for that :(
    
    hope that helps
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 13, 2016
The Group site should be deleted when the Group is deleted...if that's not the case, to avoid the redirection, append to the Url ?noredirect=true

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