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Is it possible to re create the same site collection after immediate deletion of this?

We can recreate the site collection after immediate deletion of site but before starts we have to perform either of the below two actions otherwise you will get the below exception:

               "A site collection with the same URL is already in the Recycle Bin"

Action#1: Manually starts the “Gradual site delete:” timer Job.

Action#2: Return the “GradualDelete” parameter a $False in the PowerShell

Note: Microsoft recommending does not use the action#2 for in case of deleting the site collection which has larger volume. Reason it increases the load on the system during the deletion process.

I delete a site which has other sub sites. Now, is it possible to restore the deleted sub sites? I mean is it possible to restore the child sites without first restoring the parent sites.

Remember, Restore a child of site that has also been deleted, you need to restore the parent first. For example: If you try to restore “/sites/site1/subsite1/subsite2/sub3” before restoring the parent /sites/site1/subsite1/subsite2”, nothing happens.

Getting the exception “Specified method is not supported” while trying to delete the site?

Upgrade your databases to SP1.

What is the method to delete all the deleted site collections in web application?

Method to delete all the “deleted” site collections under a specified web application.

Get-SPDeletedSite -webapplication http://sharepoint | Remove-SPDeletedSite

Note: You will be prompted to delete them one by one, if you want it to run through them all without further prompts just enter the letter “A”

How to delete site that has other sub sites sharepoint?

SharePoint will give error “you can’t delete a site that has sub sites when we try deleting a site having sub sites”.
Good tip to overcome this and delete the site along with sub sites is using Site content and structure

In SP2007: using stsadm cmd, you cannot delete the sub site if it contains other sub sites.

Scenario on Office 365:

Deleted site collections go into the site collection Recycle Bin and are retained for a 90 day period. If you accidentally delete a site collection, it can be restored from the site collection Recycle Bin by a site collection administrator within 90. If you need a site collection restored after this 90-day period has elapsed, it can be restored by Microsoft within 14 days by contacting Office 365 via a Service Request.

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SharePoint administrator interview questions and answers: Recycle Bin 2

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How can we restore the deleted sub site from the Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2007?

There is no direct way to restore the deleted sites from the Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2007. But there was a wonderful tool from Codeplex: Site Delete Capture http://governance.codeplex.com/ to back up sites automatically when they gets deleted, So that we can restore a deleted site collection in SharePoint 2007.

From the SharePoint 2010 onwards, we can restore the deleted sub site from the second stage of recycle Bin. If we delete the sub site, SharePoint will keep the deleted site in site collection recycle bin.

Note: You can find the deleted site secondary recycle bin i.e  “Deleted from end user Recycle Bin”

Is it possible to recreate the deleted site in sharepoint? [Means i have deleted a  site(http://ab.com) and trying to recreate with the same]?

Sol: In MOSS2007, When you delete a Site from the site settings it is deleted permanently. That meanns we can able to recreate the same once got deleted but from SharePoint 2010 onwards, When you delete a Site from the site settings it is deleted gradually.

Means, if you delete a site, and then create the site with the same name, SharePoint will ask you if you wish to permanently delete the site from the recycle bin so that you can re-create the site

How to restore the deleted site collection in SharePoint?

In prior versions of SharePoint Server 2010, if a site collection (that is, an SPSite object) was accidentally deleted, there was not a direct way of restoring a specific deleted site collection. The only method to restore a deleted site collection was to restore the entire farm from a backup. This was costly and time consuming, and typically was not performed.

When a site collection is accidentally deleted in SharePoint Server 2010 with SP1, the deleted site collection is stored in the SPDeletedSite object, not the SPSite object. Therefore, to restore a deleted site collection, you must use the Restore-SPDeletedSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet or programmatically access the object model.

E.g.:  Get-SPDeletedSite -Identity /sites/sitename | Restore-SPDeletedSite

My SharePoint site has exceeded the mentioned  Quota size limit but users still wants to add new doc to the document library? How can we achieve this?

Shorter way: Delete the unwanted data from the second stage of Recycle Bin.

Longer way: Increase Quota limit to the web application.

Note: Go with the second option only in case of if there is no unwanted data available in Recycle Bin. But keep in mind Release required to change the Quota limit [Why I mentioned “Release” point here we cannot directly change anything until unless get approval from the business users in higher level organizations].

Realtime Scenerio: I created site with 200MB of size and uploaded 200MB size of files to the document library[e.g:  2files and each one is having 100MB of size]. Later on, deleted those documents from the document library. But when I try to upload the 50MB of file again to the document library got the exception and it says: site Quota is FULL.

The reason for the exception is, those deleted 200MB files are still stays in first stage of Recycle Bin. Solution: Delete those from the both first stage/second stage Recycle Bin and then try to upload or increase the site Quota.

Note :2^nd stage of Recyle Bin, overwritten the old data when it exceeds.

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