Showing posts with label Delete Orphaned SPSite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delete Orphaned SPSite. Show all posts

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Deleting an orphaned or inaccessable SharePoint site

Sometimes when provisioning sites via PowerShell I’ll get a failure somewhere along the process and the site gets created but cannot be accessed or deleted via Central Admin. I believe this is because all of the provisioning steps did not complete. The following 2 lines of PowerShell will force deletion of the site.

PowerShell


# 1. Get the site object
$site = get-spsite "https://yourdomain/sites/sample";

# 2. Force the site deletion via the contentdatabase
$site.contentdatabase.forcedeletesite($site.id, $false, $false);