Display Deleted Site Collections in a Content Database

Scenario/Problem: You need to obtain a site collection reference and therefore need a listing of available site collection URLs within a specific content database.

Solution: Use the Get-SPDeletedSite cmdlet with the ContentDatabase parameter.

To obtain a deleted site collection reference object, you need to find the Path or Site Id of the site collection. Using the Get-SPDeletedSite cmdlet with the ContentDatabase parameter, as shown in Listing 8.19, displays all deleted site collections in the specified content database.

Listing 8.19. Displaying Deleted Site Collections in a Content Database

Get-SPDeletedSite -ContentDatabase "WSS_CONTENT"

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