SharePoint Holmes and the Concealed Classic sites
Today I have a mysterious SharePoint issue myself. Fortunately, I know where to reach SharePoint Holmes so I can ask for help!
Today I have a mysterious SharePoint issue myself. Fortunately, I know where to reach SharePoint Holmes so I can ask for help! đ
< takes cloak, puts on detective cap >
The case
Over the years I have created lots of new sites in my tenant, in order to learn, to test stuff and to make screenshots for my posts. As my list of sites was pretty long, and as I am no longer using most of those sites, I decided to do some spring cleaning.
What better place to start than the SharePoint Admin center? So there I headed, to the list of Active sites. This includes the root site, an App Catalog, a site called âGroup for answers in Viva Engage (I never created that myself!) and my External site, which should no longer exist but still is around. (More about that in another blog)
I checked each site and deleted it when possible. Oh, the joy of being alone in your tenant and not having to ask if an unused site can go! đ (Mind you, at other times it is not very practical to be the only user in your tenant.) I ended up with this manageable list of 13 sites:
SharePoint Holmes and the Concealed Classic sites â Ellenâs Digital Workplace
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