How to delete root site collection in SharePoint Online?
1 Answer 1. We can delete and recreate the root site collection in SharePoint Online. You can check the articles Delete and Recreate a SharePoint Online Root Site Collection to permanently delete the root site collection from recycle bin. Tenant Administration Delete Root Site Collection and Re-Create Doesn’t Properly Delete From Recycle Bin.
Is the root web of a SharePoint site recoverable?
SharePoint Online keeps evolving, and at least on some tenants, removing the root web of the site collection now also removes the site collection. This means that the whole removed site collection is in fact recoverable (if everything goes right) by accessing the classic recycle bin and using it to restore the site.
What happens when you delete a site in SharePoint?
When you delete a site collection, you are deleting the hierarchy of sites that comprise the collection. Deleting a site collection, also permanently destroys all content and user information, such as the following: Documents and document libraries.
What to do with a site that has been removed from sposite?
The Remove-SPOSite cmdlet does not delete a site collection from the site collections list permanently. Instead, the removed site collection is moved to the Recycle Bin. You can use the Restore-SPODeletedSite cmdlet to restore a site collection from the Recycle Bin.
How to delete the root-level sitecollection?
For Eg.: But I didn’t select /sites/ from drop down in the web address. Now it is displaying the root level site with a title -> newsite (which should not be present). The site is also not getting browsed, it is throwing error. Can anyone help me how to delete or erase this from CA? If I delete the root level site collection what is the impact?
Why is my rootlevel site collection not showing?
By mistake I created it as a rootlevel site collection instead of a subsite through UI. For Eg.: But I didn’t select /sites/ from drop down in the web address. Now it is displaying the root level site with a title -> newsite (which should not be present). The site is also not getting browsed, it is throwing error.