We couldn’t find the Office 365 group connected to this site [Solved]

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Recently, I tried to restore a site that was deleted a few days ago from the SharePoint Online admin center. However, I encountered an error stating, “Couldn’t restore site. We couldn’t find the Office 365 group connected to this site.”

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In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to solve the “Couldn’t restore site. We couldn’t find the Office 365 group connected to this site” error that occurs when trying to restore a SharePoint Online site from the admin center recycle bin.

We couldn’t find the Office 365 group connected to this site

In my case, I deleted the associated Office 365 group, which caused the issue. Another reason for the error could be that the Owner assigned to the SharePoint Online Site may not be available or deleted from the tenant.

When I delete a Team site connected to a Microsoft 365 Group, the SharePoint site associated with it is retained for 93 days in the recycle bin before it’s permanently deleted. However, other group assets such as files, conversations, and calendars are only retained for 30 days before they are permanently deleted.

Instead of restoring the site in the SharePoint admin center, you can restore the SharePoint site using a PowerShell script.

Now, let’s learn how to restore the SharePoint Online site using PowerShell.

Open Windows PowerShell ISE and run the command provided below:

Connect-SPOService -url https://yourtenantid-admin.sharepoint.com -credential MiriamG@szg52.onmicrosoft.com

Restore-SPODeletedSite -Identity https://yourtenantid.sharepoint.com/sites/tausif

Where:

  • Connect-SPOService -url https://yourtenantid-admin.sharepoint.com -credential MiriamG@szg52.onmicrosoft.com: This command connects to the SharePoint Online service for your organization using the specified URL and login credentials (username).
  • Restore-SPODeletedSite -Identity https://yourtenantid.sharepoint.com/sites/tausif: This command restores a previously deleted SharePoint Online site with the specified URL under your organization’s tenant.
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The SharePoint Online site will be restored, and the error “Couldn’t restore site” will not appear.

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I hope this article helped you to resolve the PowerShell error: Couldn’t restore site: We couldn’t find the microsoft 365 group connected to this site error.

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