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SharePoint Online - Can't create a Site - "The site collection already exists"
Hi Folks,
I am unable to create a new Sharepoint Team Site with a specific name (HR) in the Sharepoint admin centre or via powershell.
There are no sites with the same name in the admin centre recycle bin or returned by the Get-SPODeletedSite command.
I can't create the new Site using powershell either error - "New-SPOSite : A site already exists at url https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HR"
I have seen a few posts over at answers.microsoft.com but they all seem to end with having to contact Microsoft and no follow up.
We did delete some Office 365 groups called HR in order to prepare for the new HR SharePoint site.
Other sites are creating ok with other names.
Thanks!
- Have you reviewed if this was created as part of a Group / Team
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- Remove-SPOSite powershell command returns - "Access to this Web site has been blocked."
Remove-SPOSite https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HR
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Remove-SPOSite" on target "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HR".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
Remove-SPOSite : Access to this Web site has been blocked.
Please contact the administrator to resolve this problem- Have you reviewed if this was created as part of a Group / Team
Hi,
Yes I just ran Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup and I could see a deleted group with the HR name.
I have run Remove-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject but I am still getting the same error when tryign to create the Team Site in teh admin centre or via PowerShell.
The MS article I used was to see and remove deleted Office 365 Groups was:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54
