good day and welcome to the channel in
this very short video we're going to
explain how to fix this problem in
SharePoint the site is locked we
couldn't find the Microsoft 365 group
connected to the site and we're going to
get through this pretty quickly but I do
want to show you where this came from
basically I had no idea that this group
existed I found that there was a problem
when I was running veeam to do a backup
this ipw group I have no idea what the
heck that is I must have built that
years ago and when I go take a look at
it which I Do by going to
portal.office.com signing in clicking
admin on the left and yes I'm going
through this very quickly because I'm
assuming you already know this but just
in case you don't we'll blast through it
I click show all and then I get into the
SharePoint Administration site right
here
when I click on active sites this ipw
group is toast I can't do anything with
it if I click on it it tells me it's
locked if I try to delete it it tells me
the site can't be deleted because the
site is locked so how do you fix this
thing well it's not that hard to do but
you do need Powershell we'll put a link
in the top right hand corner with all of
the commands that you need but let's
just show you what you have to do to get
through it first so the first thing you
need to do is get the latest Powershell
for SharePoint better known as the
SharePoint online Management Shell which
you can get from here now I have already
downloaded it and installed it I'm just
going to close that and I can go to
click Start type in SharePoint and
there's the SharePoint online Management
Shell right click run it as an
administrator or I can just bring up
Windows terminal because I'm running
Windows 11 because it bolts into there
as well so there we go I'm just going to
run the windows terminal now if you want
to know what version you're running
that's the command so I'm running
version 16. whatever the next thing you
need to do is connect and this is the
command line for that so it's Earl is
your Earl to your SharePoint site and
we're going to show you this credential
problem here let me just press enter
it's going to pop up and ask me for the
password and I'm going to enter it it's
going to tell me to get lost
I'll show you get around that so it says
connect SPO service the sign in or
password does not match the one in
Microsoft account system well I'm
positive it's right so how do you get
around that and why is that a problem
it's a problem in my case because I've
got two-factor authentication so it's
one of two things you either have your
you reads or do if your credentials
wrong or more likely you just have
two-factor authentication so if you want
to get around that
just get rid of Dash credential and then
sign in there we go and the command that
you now need is set Dash SPO site Dash
identity whatever the Earl is in my case
it goes that spw group Dash lock State
and then whatever the state is we want
it to unlock can you think well I don't
really know what that address is what
that Earl is just right click on the
website in the SharePoint admin site
select copy link and that will give you
here I'll just put paste it up here so
you can see it you can see that that is
the full Earl all right so let's give
that a shot
here we go
close this
refresh awesome so it's now not locked
and I can dump it
yes I want to dump it bye
gone and that is how you unlock a
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