PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Remove a Site Collection

Scenario/Problem: You need to remove a site collection from your SharePoint farm.

Solution: Use the Remove-SPSite cmdlet with a site collection variable.

The Remove-SPSite cmdlet enables you to remove a specific site collection from the current server. Use this in conjunction with the Get-SPSite cmdlet (explained in a previous section), as shown in Listing 8.5, or just use the site collection identity directly in line, as shown in Listing 8.6.

Listing 8.5. Removing a Site Collection Using a Variable

$siteCol = Get-SPSite -Identity "http://sp2013/sites/sitecol"Remove-SPSite $siteCol

Listing 8.6. Removing a Site Collection Directly

Remove-SPSite -Identity "http://sp2013/sites/sitecol"

The Remove-SPSite cmdlet has ...