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<h3 id="heading-my-quest-to-reattach-an-orphaned-sharepoint-site-to-an-office-365-group-after-the-original-group-had-gone-to-the-great-recycle-bin-in-the-sky">My quest? To reattach an orphaned SharePoint site to an Office 365 group after the original group had gone to the great Recycle Bin in the sky.</h3>
<p>Enter this little trick that feels like finding a cheat code All you need to do is add a special string to your orphaned site’s URL. Here’s the secret formula:</p>
<pre><code class="lang-plaintext">/_layouts/creategroup.aspx?mode=connectgroup
</code></pre>
<p>Yep, that’s it. Add this to the end of your orphaned SharePoint site URL, hit Enter, and voilà!</p>
<p>A wizard appears—not the pointy-hat kind, but a modern UI wizard ready to save the day.</p>
<p><img src="https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1734703531979/9d2e2bd6-c14e-4806-bd97-2bbc6b9d9b44.png" alt class="image--center mx-auto" /></p>
<h3 id="heading-lessons-learned"><strong>Lessons Learned</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>SharePoint has its quirks, but it also has some surprisingly graceful recovery options.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Always check before deleting Office 365 groups—there might be an innocent SharePoint site tethered to it.</p>
</li>
<li><p>And most importantly: bookmark this URL tweak. You never know when you’ll need to rescue another orphaned site.</p>
</li>
</ul>


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### My quest? To reattach an orphaned SharePoint site to an Office 365 group after the original group had gone to the great Recycle Bin in the sky.

Enter this little trick that feels like finding a cheat code All you need to do is add a special string to your orphaned site’s URL. Here’s the secret formula:

```plaintext
/_layouts/creategroup.aspx?mode=connectgroup
```

Yep, that’s it. Add this to the end of your orphaned SharePoint site URL, hit Enter, and voilà!

A wizard appears—not the pointy-hat kind, but a modern UI wizard ready to save the day.

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1734703531979/9d2e2bd6-c14e-4806-bd97-2bbc6b9d9b44.png align="center")

### **Lessons Learned**

* SharePoint has its quirks, but it also has some surprisingly graceful recovery options.
    
* Always check before deleting Office 365 groups—there might be an innocent SharePoint site tethered to it.
    
* And most importantly: bookmark this URL tweak. You never know when you’ll need to rescue another orphaned site.

Learn how to quickly rescue an orphaned SharePoint site with a simple URL trick and avoid losing important data

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