Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

It’s easy to create a site collection using PowerShell as seen in an earlier post. Now let’s see how easy it is to delete a site collection using PowerShell cmdlet. It’s any day efficient way to create and delete site collections using PowerShell then use Central Administration GUI.

For the purpose of testing we will

· Create a site collection named 2Delete using a site template STS#0

· Delete a site collection named 2Delete

1. New site collection created using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
   
2. Site collection created. as per confirmation. Delete site collection using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
   
3. Press ENTER.
   
4. Site collection deleted.