How to delete a private channel site?

Question

Hi,

it looks like there is still the SharePoint site of a private channel hanging around. This was from a test long ago. And neither in Teams or Teams Admin console I can see this private channel. However, the SharePoint site is still there and points to the correct parent team.

How can I delete this site of the non-existing private channel?

Thanks!

Answer 1

@Stefank

By default, when you delete a private channel in the Microsoft Teams, it will delete both the channel and the site that is connected to it.

You could go to SharePoint admin center -> Sites -> Active sites -> Find the site collection associated with the Teams -> Check whether this site collection has channel site.

And you could use following PowerShell to delete a channel site.

#Variables  
$AdminSiteURL = "https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com/"  
$SiteCollURL = "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/channelname"  
   
#Connect to sharepoint online  
Connect-SPOService -url "https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com/" -credential (Get-Credential)  
   
#sharepoint online powershell delete site collection  
Remove-SPOSite -Identity $SiteCollURL -NoWait -Confirm:$false  

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Answer 2

Hi @Emily Du-MSFT

this worked to remove the private channel site.

Cheers

Answer 3

The scripts works, however, you need to exclude the site from retention policies if applied.

Answer 4

Hello there,

You should try deleting using PowerShell as described in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/delete-site-collection#permanently-delete-a-site .

DF