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Description
Turns on or off the setting to delete the site collection.
This property is equivalent to the Automatically delete the site collection if use is not confirmed user interface setting that is located on the Site Use Confirmation and Deletion page of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.
Syntax
stsadm -o setproperty
-propertyname dead-site-auto-delete
-propertyvalue {Yes | No}
[-url] <http://server_name>
The syntax for the getproperty operation is:
stsadm -o getproperty
propertyname dead-site-auto-delete
[-url] <http://server_name>
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You can substitute -pn for -propertyname and -pv for -propertyvalue. |
Property values
The following table shows possible values.
Name | Value |
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propertyname |
Gets or sets the name of the property. |
propertyvalue |
No: Disables the site collection to be automatically deleted. This is the default setting. |
url |
Typically, a path to the URL of the Web application, in the form http://server_name. |
Examples
To turn on the setting for the site collection to be deleted, use the following syntax:
stsadm -o setproperty -pn dead-site-auto-delete -pv Yes