SharePoint Online: Remove User from Site Collection using PowerShell
Requirement: SharePoint Online Remove User from site collection
How to Delete a user from site collection in SharePoint Online?
To remove a user from SharePoint Online site collection, follow these steps:
- Login to SharePoint Online site as Administrator >> Navigate to “All People” page by appending: /_layouts/15/people.aspx/membershipGroupId=0 to the URL (E.g. https://crescent.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/people.aspx/membershipGroupId=0)
- On the All People page, Select the user you want to delete >> Click on “Actions” Menu >> Delete Users from Site Collection
- Confirm the prompt to remove the user from the site collection. This deletes the user from the entire site collection, including from all groups where the particular user was a member of!
Now, Let’s remove user permissions in SharePoint Online using PowerShell!
SharePoint Online: Remove user from site collection using PowerShell
To remove a user from site collection in SharePoint Online, we can use “Remove-SPOUser” PowerShell cmdlet. Here is an example:
Remove-SPOUser https://crescent.sharepoint.com -LoginName [email protected]
This cmdlet can be used to remove both an internal and an external user from a SharePoint site collection. Let’s make it a complete script:
#Parameters
$AdminSiteURL="https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/ops"
$UserID="[email protected]"
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred = Get-Credential
#Connect to SharePoint Online Admin Site
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminSiteURL -Credential $cred
#sharepoint online powershell remove user permissions from site collection
Remove-SPOUser -Site $SiteURL -LoginName $UserID
Remove user from SharePoint Online using PowerShell
Here is the CSOM PowerShell script to delete user from site.
#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
#Set parameter values
$SiteURL="https://crescenttech.sharepoint.com/"
$UserID="[email protected]"
Try {
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred= Get-Credential
$Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
#Setup the context
$Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
$Ctx.Credentials = $Credentials
#Get the web
$Web=$Ctx.Web
$Ctx.Load($Web)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#Frame Login Name
$LoginName = "i:0#.f|membership|"+$UserID
#Get the User to Delete
$User = $Web.SiteUsers.GetByLoginName($LoginName)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
If($User -ne $null)
{
#remove user from sharepoint online powershell
$Ctx.Web.SiteUsers.RemoveByLoginName($LoginName)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
Write-Host "User: '$UserID' has been Removed from the site Successfully!" -ForegroundColor Green
}
}
Catch {
write-host -f Red "Error Removing User from Site!" $_.Exception.Message
}
Delete User from Site Collection in SharePoint Online using PnP PowerShell
Here is how to remove a user from SharePoint Online with PnP PowerShell
#Config Variables
$SiteURL = "https://crescenttech.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
$UserID="i:0#.f|membership|[email protected]"
#Connect to PnP Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Credentials (Get-Credential)
#sharepoint online powershell delete user from site collection
Remove-PnPUser -Identity $UserID -Force
This removes the given user by its UPN from all SharePoint Groups and direct permissions from a site collection, Including “Site collection Administrators”. Please note, This has no effect on the AD groups in the site where that specific user is a member!
To remove user from all SharePoint Online sites, use: SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Remove User from All Sites
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