Recursively remove a folder from OneDrive with PowerShell
· 2 min read
Did you know, when you have a retention policy configured for OneDrive in Microsoft 365 you lose the ability to recursively delete folders. The OneDrive client often handles this by recursing through the folder tree to remove the online copies but sometimes that doesn't work and in those cases you can end up stuck with a folder tree that you would have to manually recurse to remove the offending folders by first emptying them entirely before OneDrive will let you delete them.
Well that's never going to happen ;-)
Enter PowerShell.
Required Modules
You'll need the PnP.PowerShell module for this script. Install with Install-Module 'PnP.PowerShell'