In this SharePoint Online tutorial, we will learn How to delete a SharePoint Team site and how to Restore a deleted SharePoint Team site from the SharePoint admin center.
There are two ways, we can delete a team site in SharePoint Online. First, we can delete from the same SharePoint site itself and second we can delete a team site from the SharePoint Online admin center.
How to delete a SharePoint Team Site
While working with the SharePoint team site, sometimes we might need to delete a Team site. But only a site administrator and site owners to delete the Team site and the Communication site.
Once we delete a SharePoint Team site or Communication site, all the data like Subsites, content, lists, list items, and document library will be deleted from the respective sites.
To delete the Team site from SharePoint Online, follow the below things:
- First, open a SharePoint Team site that you want to delete. On that Team site, click on settings or the gear icon to get more options under the settings. Navigate to Site information.
- Inside the Site information, we will get all the information like Site name, Site description, and Privacy settings, along with it will show an option called Delete site.
- Once we clicked on the Delete site, it will be asked for confirmation like Yes, delete this group and all its associated resources.
- Select this confirmation and click on the Delete option, then the Team site will be deleted from SharePoint Online.
This is how to delete a Team site from SharePoint Online.
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How to delete a Team Site from the SharePoint admin center
In this section, we will see how to delete a Team site from the SharePoint admin center. To delete a team site from the SharePoint admin center, make sure you have SharePoint admin access and the following steps are:
- As we mentioned above the SharePoint administrator or a site owner can able to delete a site from SharePoint Online, so we need to log in to the SharePoint admin center with Microsoft 365 credentials.
- To open the SharePoint admin center, insert the below expression on the browser.
https://<your tenant name>-admin.sharepoint.com/For example,
https://tsinfotechnologies-admin.sharepoint.com/- Once the SharePoint admin center is opened, navigate to Sites, it will show the options such as Active sites and Deleted sites.
- Navigate to Active sites which will display all the sites that are active. similarly. if we navigate to Deleted sites, it will display all those sites that have been deleted.
- Select one active site from the Active sites that we want to delete (Ex: Company News Site).
- Once a site is selected, the Delete option will be lightened.
- While clicking on the Delete option, the selected Team site will be deleted from the SharePoint admin center.
This is how to delete a Team site from the SharePoint admin center.
Restore a deleted Team site from the SharePoint admin center
If we want to restore a deleted SharePoint team site, follow the below steps:
To Restore a team site from the SharePoint admin center, make sure you have SharePoint admin access and the following steps are:
Follow the below things to Restore the Team site from the SharePoint admin center.
- Once the SharePoint admin center is opened, navigate to Sites, it will show the options such as Active sites and Deleted sites.
- Navigate to Deleted sites, it will display all those sites that have been deleted.
- From the Deleted sites, select one site that we want to restore (Ex: SharePoint).
- If we select the option to Restore, then our Team site will be restored in Active sites.
This is how to Restore the Team site from the SharePoint admin center.
Conclusion
In this SharePoint Online tutorial, we have learned how to delete a SharePoint team site. Also, we have covered below topics such as:
- How to delete a site from the Sharepoint admin center?
- How to Restore the deleted SharePoint Team site from the SharePoint admin center?
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