Remove Renamed Site Redirects Issue

Question

Hi MS Q&A,

Had attempted to rename a Site Collection via SPO Admin Center and encountering issues attempting to remove the respective site redirect (Site with Template ID: RedirectSite#0) via recommended process within following MS Article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/manage-site-redirects

Have attempted the following cmdlets and encountering the following errors despite being Site Admin and GA:

• Remove-SPOSite : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
• Remove-PnPTenantSite : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Observed that the current Site Admin for the Redirect Site is showing up as "SHAREPOINT\system" and was unable to update the Site Administrators while attempting to determine if that might be a potential root cause.

Appreciate any advice or information.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @Daniel Chee ,

This issue can be reproduced in my test environment:

You could try this solution :
first unlock the site and then change the owner of the site using below cmdlets.

Set-SPOSite $site -LockState Unlock  
Set-SPOSite $site -Owner "Owner name"  

Once done you will be able to delete the site.

Remove-SPOSite -Identity "Site url"  

A similar post about this issue:
Error when using Remove-SPOSite command on PowerShell

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Answer 2

Thanks Elsie,

Confirming had been successful with removing the Site Redirect after Unlocking and adding executing account as Site Admin successfully.

Thank you for the prompt assistance.