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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...
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
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.
- 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 sameDid support say it was a bug and a fix is coming?
- Negative, just got me to immediate resolution, if they did anything beyond that, I am not aware of it.
- 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.
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?
I think you may have done it the wrong as you may need to first remove the sitecollection before you remove the group.
