Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Forcibly Remove an Office 365 SharePoint Site

Lets say you have created a SharePoint online site-collection and then (purposely) deleted the site-collection and quickly need to recreate it using the same name.
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I know...don't judge me..it was a perfectly logical outcome of the circumstance. ;-p

In order to recreate the URL the same within 48 to 72 hours, you will need to use the SharePoint Azure Powershell command utility to Forcibly delete the site collection out of the Recycle Bin with Extreme Prejudice. 

1. Connect to your admin portal site
    Type connect-msolservice 
  …and log in with your admin account
   Remember it is important to connect to the admin site:
     yoursite-admin.sharepoint.com 

2. Delete with Extreme Prejudice
Remove-SPODeletedSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/sitetoremove 

 Cheers!