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Sharepoint 2013: How to Delete Orphan Sites

Sharepoint 2013: How to Delete Orphan Sites

Recently an issue was reported to me where my site admins were unable to remove a reference to an orphan site collection in Sharepoint 2013. Here are some details of this site collection:

  • This site was inaccessible.
  • This site was present in central admin --> View all site collections.
  • This site was not selectable although viewable in central admin --> delete site collection
  • In content database in the table Allsites the field "Delete" was marked as 1 for this site collection
  • Remove-SPSite was throwing exception.

To fix this issue we followed a series of steps very similar to Sharepoint 2007.
  • We detached this content database from central admin
  • The following Powershell command was executed to attach it back

Mount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentDb>" -DatabaseServer "<DbServer>" -WebApplication http://SiteURL
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    on 29 Jul 2013 8:27 AM

    Naomi  N edited Original. Comment: Minor edit

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    on 30 Jul 2013 5:59 AM

    Gokan Ozcifci edited Revision 1. Comment: Tag & title

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    This article will benefit from See Also section, please add it

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