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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Nov 18, 2016

Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?

I don't suppose there is a way to force delete a site collection after the group is deleted?   I created a test group that happened to use the name that I now need to use.  I deleted that group day...
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jan 19, 2017
Some feedback here: it could be nice to provide some alerting to the user that deletes the Group advising when Group componentes has been deleted
Brent Ellis's avatar
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jan 25, 2017
I've opened a support ticket. Upon further review, no Group that I have ever created and deleted (around 10) had its corresponding SP site removed.
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    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 26, 2017
    So interesting resolution, the direct url: /_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx did it (where trying to go via site settings and powershell didnt work)

    As soon as I deleted one manually that way, the rest of them seem to have deleted themselves. Maybe the first one just go hung up in a delete job and was preventing the rest from doing the same
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      DavidJhernandez
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 04, 2020

      Brent Ellis 

       

      Hi Brent,

      on 01-26-2017 08:42 AM you wrote the following :

      "Brent Ellis replied to Brent Ellis‎ 01-26-2017 08:42 AM
      Re: Force delete Group Site Collection after Group Deleted?
      So interesting resolution, the direct url: /_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx did it (where trying to go via site settings and powershell didn't work).  As soon as I deleted one manually that way, the rest of them seem to have deleted themselves. Maybe the first one just go hung up in a delete job and was preventing the rest from doing the same".

       

      I am experiencing 3 group tiles that I have deleted from Admin Center > SharePoint Admin Center > Sites > Active Sites > Delete from here, have also deleted the groups from Portal.azure.com > Azure Active Dir > Groups, and have also deleted the groups from power shell, nothing works. Now, would you please spell out the URL in full because I couldn't follow that URL.  I will appreciate it big timie.

       

      DH

       

       

    • Deleted's avatar
      Deleted
      Jun 13, 2018

      Hi,

      I'm try this "_layouts/15/deleteweb.aspx" but it did not work for me got this error message all along doesn't matter what I try to do. 

      This site collection can't be deleted because it contains sites that are included in an eDiscovery hold or retention policy.

       

      I've created a ticket with MS and they been looking into it for few days but no luck.

      Have anyone experience this error message before?

      • Deleted's avatar
        Deleted
        Jun 13, 2018

        I think you may have done it the wrong as you may need to first remove the sitecollection before you remove the group.

        https://winsmarts.com/completely-delete-an-office365-site-collection-classic-or-modern-from-recycle-bin-ce04808894fa

         

    • James Truxon's avatar
      James Truxon
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 20, 2017
      This worked for me as well - thanks for the tip!! In my case, the other orphaned sites were not deleted -- I have one group site I couldn't delete (hence the searching that landed me on this thread), and a test group site I created to debug the issue. My test group site deleted just fine with your method, the original group site stuck around.