{"id":3633,"date":"2020-04-14T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/app\/help\/adminmanual\/how-to-remove-a-sharepoint-site-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:40:27","slug":"how-to-restore-a-deleted-workspace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/workspaces\/how-to-restore-a-deleted-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"How to restore a deleted workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can restore a workspace by creating a new one with the same URL as the one that was deleted. Restored workspaces will be restored with their original configurations. It is however not possible to restore a workspace&nbsp;if the deleted site has actively been deleted from the recycle bin or&nbsp;if the workspace was deleted for longer than 93 days (it will automatically be deleted from the recycle bin after 93 days).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To restore a workspace you must be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/faq\/how-do-i-assign-the-sharepoint-administrator-role\/\">SharePoint administrator<\/a>\u00a0(has the permission to restore deleted site collections).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-2-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note on SharePoint Server\/On premises<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>MetaShare cannot restore the site collection for the workspace when running on premises. Before restoring the workspace you must restore the site collection using the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/microsoft.sharepoint.powershell\/restore-spdeletedsite?view=sharepoint-ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Restore-SPDeletedSite<\/a> PowerShell cmdlet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/metashares-start-page\/\">MetaShare&#8217;s start page<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the &#8220;New&#8221; function in the horizontal toolbar.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"668\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width: 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-create-a-workspace-new.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-create-a-workspace-new.png 1280w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-create-a-workspace-new-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-create-a-workspace-new-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-create-a-workspace-new-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose any configuration, as the restored workspace will keep its original configuration, and enter the SharePoint URL of the workspace that you wish to restore.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"821\" class=\"wp-image-12285\" style=\"width: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/workspace-properies.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/workspace-properies.png 451w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/workspace-properies-165x300.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the &#8220;Save&#8221; button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will receive a mail once the restoration is completed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can restore a workspace by creating a new one with the same URL as the one that was deleted. Restored workspaces will be restored with their original configurations. It is however not possible to &#8230; <a title=\"How to restore a deleted workspace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/workspaces\/how-to-restore-a-deleted-workspace\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to restore a deleted workspace\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10693,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-3633","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12386,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3633\/revisions\/12386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}