SharePoint Online Admin Center Recycle Bin [Restore deleted site in new SharePoint Admin Center]

In this SharePoint tutorial, We will discuss everything about the SharePoint Online Admin Center Recycle Bin like what it is, how to find and restore a deleted site in the SharePoint Admin Center, its time period, and many more.

Moreover, We will see how to restore a particular deleted site in the Classic SharePoint Admin Center.

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SharePoint Online Admin Center Recycle Bin

When using Microsoft SharePoint, you run the risk of making mistakes or doing things carelessly. Let’s imagine you decide to delete the site you are working on. Now, it can be a site you recently deleted related to a necessary purchase or inventory.

To avoid such unintentional deletions, you must understand the SharePoint Recycle Bin and how to use it. Yes, just like your PC, the SharePoint Admin center has a Recycle Bin, and in order to make the most of SharePoint, you must understand everything there is to know about it.

On SharePoint, when you delete a site, SharePoint moves that specific deleted site to the Recycle Bin and saves it there. If you unintentionally delete the site, you can restore it from the SharePoint Admin Center itself.

SharePoint sites that have been deleted are kept for 93 days. Sites and all of their lists, libraries, pages, and subsites are permanently deleted after 93 days.

Restore a deleted site in new SharePoint Admin Center

You can remove and restore all of the new types of sites in the new SharePoint admin center. You don’t have to be a Global Administrator to achieve this, you can do it even as a SharePoint Administrator.

Now refer to the instructions below to do so:

• As a global or SharePoint administrator, open the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. It won’t ask you to sign in again if you have already signed in using your Microsoft account. It will immediately launch the Microsoft 365 Admin Center page without asking to sign up. Otherwise, you log in and continue.

NOTE:

Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, then navigate to the SharePoint admin centre and view the Deleted sites page if you use Microsoft 365 from 21Vianet (China).

• In the left pane, click SharePoint under Admin centers. (Select Show all to view the list of Admin centers).
• If the Classic SharePoint admin center pops up, choose to Try it now to access the new SharePoint admin center.

• On the SharePoint admin center page, expand the Sites (from the left nav) -> Click on the Deleted sites as shown below. On the Deleted sites page, you can see all the sites that are deleted by the users.
• Similar to how you may sort and filter sites on the Active sites page, you can do the same with deleted sites. By Time deleted, you can also sort and filter deleted sites.

• Choose the site you want to restore from the list. Choose Restore.

• The restore confirmation popup will then show up, confirming the restoration of the entire site, including the particular group and all of its features including the calendar, notepad, and group chats. Tap on Restore.

• If the Restore button isn’t visible, make sure only one site is chosen. When more than one site is chosen, the button won’t show up).

• An update notification such as “Site restored” will appear once the particular site has been successfully restored, as shown in the image below. Additionally, the particular site will be taken off the list.

NOTE:

• A Microsoft 365 group and all of its resources are restored when a site that is a part of that group is restored. Keep in mind that the site is stored for 93 days while the other group resources are only stored for 30 days.
• The PowerShell command Remove-SPODeletedSite can be used to permanently delete the site if the other group resources have been removed.

This is how we can restore a deleted site in the new SharePoint Admin Center.

Restore a deleted site in the Classic SharePoint Admin Center

Here we will see how to restore a deleted site in the Classic SharePoint Admin Center. Refer to the steps below:

• Open the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as a global or SharePoint administrator.
• In the left pane, click SharePoint under Admin centers. (Select Show all to view the list of Admin centers).
• Select the Classic SharePoint admin center in the left pane if this gets the new SharePoint admin center to open.
• On the Site Collection page of the classic SharePoint admin center, click Recycle Bin.
• The site collection that you want to restore has a checkbox next to it.
• Click Restore Deleted Items on the ribbon. Once you will click on it, a confirmation popup will appear. The site will then be restored together with the specific group and all of its features, including the calendar, notepad, and group conversations. Click Restore.
• Once the specific site has been successfully restored, an update notification such as “Site restored” will appear. The specific site will also be removed from the list as well.

This is how to restore a deleted site in the Classic SharePoint Admin Center.

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In this SharePoint tutorial, We discussed everything about the SharePoint Online Admin Center Recycle Bin like what it is, how to find and restore a deleted site in the SharePoint Admin Center, its time period, and many more.

Moreover, We saw how to restore a particular deleted site in the Classic SharePoint Admin Center.