How to delete a SharePoint Site Collection

When a Site Collection is not necessary anymore, you may need to delete it. So how to delete a SharePoint Site Collection? This tutorial will guide you on deleting that Site Collection!

But before I start writing in how to do that, it’s important to explain what is a Site Collection if you don’t know exactly what it is! According to Microsoft documentation: “A site collection is a group of websites that have the same owner and share administrative settings, for example, permissions, and quotas. Site collections are created within a web application. When you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more subsites below the top-level site. The entire structure of the top-level site and all its subsites is called a site collection.”

How to delete SharePoint Site Collection in SharePoint Online

• Head to the SharePoint Admin Center: https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com where you can find how to delete SharePoint site collection;
• Expand the Sites menu and click on Active sites;
• Select the desired Site Collection that will be deleted;
• Click in the three dots button and then in Delete.

How to delete SharePoint Site Collection in SharePoint On-Premises

• Head to the SharePoint Central Admin;
• Click in Application Management menu;
• Click on Delete a site collection button;
• Select the desired Site Collection that will be deleted in the Site collection field;
• Click in Delete.

Deleting Site Collections and other things

Let me know if you learned how to delete a SharePoint Site Collection. Also you can check this post series on how to delete things in SharePoint.

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Delete and restore Site Collections