--- title: "How to Remove a Vitextra Solution from SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams" description: "Step-by-step guide to uninstalling a Vitextra SPFx product completely: removing the web parts from pages, removing the app from sites and from Microsoft Teams, deleting the package from the App Catalog and its recycle bin, revoking API permissions, cleaning up the data the product created and releasing the license." url: https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10362 language: en published: 2026-10-30 modified: 2026-10-29 author: "Roger Gagne" tags: ["remove SPFx solution SharePoint Online", "uninstall SharePoint web part", "delete app from App Catalog", "remove app from site SharePoint", "remove app from Teams admin center", "revoke API access SharePoint", "uninstall Vitextra product", "delete sppkg", "App Catalog recycle bin", "remove web part from page"] --- # How to Remove a Vitextra Solution from SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams Step-by-step guide to uninstalling a Vitextra SPFx product completely: removing the web parts from pages, removing the app from sites and from Microsoft Teams, deleting the package from the App Catalog and its recycle bin, revoking API permissions, cleaning up the data the product created and releasing the license. ## Overview A SharePoint Framework (::SPFx::) product is installed in layers: the package in the ::App Catalog::, the app on the sites that use it, the web parts on pages, optionally a Teams app, and the API permissions approved for it. Uninstalling means walking back through these layers. SharePoint does not do it for you — deleting the package from the App Catalog is one click, but it leaves broken web parts on pages, an orphaned Teams app and approved permissions behind. This article describes the complete removal of a Vitextra product from a Microsoft 365 tenant, in the order that avoids broken pages, and what to do with the data the product created and with the license. The steps are the same for every Vitextra product for SharePoint Online; the SharePoint Server products are uninstalled differently, see [KB10022. How to Uninstall a Vitextra Product from SharePoint Server](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10022). 📝 **Note** You do not need to uninstall a product to stop paying for it: cancel the subscription in your Vitextra account, and the web parts stop working when the paid period ends. Uninstall when you want the product out of the tenant. ## Before you start - **Find out where the product is used.** SharePoint has no report of the pages on which a web part is used; ask site owners, or search the site pages of the intranet for the product name. Tenant-wide deployed web parts may sit on any page of any site. - **Decide what happens to the data.** Some products keep data in SharePoint lists or in OneDrive (see [Data created by the product](#data) below). Export what you need before you delete it. - **Required roles.** Removing web parts and apps from a site needs site owner rights; deleting the package, revoking permissions and removing the Teams app need the **SharePoint Administrator** role (for Teams, also the **Teams Administrator** role or Global Administrator). ## Step 1. Remove the web parts from pages Start with the pages. If the package is deleted first, every page that still contains the web part shows an error placeholder instead of the content, and page editors see the same placeholder in edit mode. 1. Open the page and click **Edit**. 2. Select the Vitextra web part and click the **Delete web part** (trash) icon in its toolbar. 3. **Republish** the page. ![Deleting a web part from a page](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10362/delete-web-part-en.png) *Deleting a web part from a page* Repeat for every page. The settings of a web part are stored in the page, so deleting the web part removes its configuration as well. ## Step 2. Remove the app from sites This step applies only to products that were **added to sites individually** (from **Site contents → New → App**). Products deployed with **Enable this app and add it to all sites** are not listed in site contents and skip this step. 1. On the site, open **Settings → Site contents**. 2. Find the Vitextra app, open its menu (**…**) and click **Remove**. 3. Confirm. ![Removing an app from a site](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10362/remove-app-from-site-en.png) *Removing an app from a site* The removed app goes to the site recycle bin and can be restored from there. ## Step 3. Remove the app from Microsoft Teams If the product was published to Teams with **Add to Teams**, it exists in the Teams app catalog of your organization as a custom app, independently of SharePoint. 1. Open the [Microsoft Teams admin center](https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) and go to **Teams apps → Manage apps**. 2. Search for the Vitextra product by name and open it. 3. Click **Delete** and confirm. The tabs and personal apps that users created from the app stop working and disappear from Teams. If the app was pinned by an app setup policy, remove it from the policy as well (**Teams apps → Setup policies**). 📝 **Note** The Teams personal-app configuration that an administrator saved from the **Personal app (Microsoft Teams)** group of the property pane (Employee Directory, Organizational Chart, RSS Reader) is stored by the Vitextra license service for your tenant. It is not used after the app is removed and is overwritten the next time the product is configured. ## Step 4. Delete the package from the App Catalog 1. In the SharePoint admin center, open **More features → Apps → Open** to get to the **Manage apps** page. 2. Select the Vitextra package and click **Delete**. Confirm. ![Deleting the package from the App Catalog](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10362/delete-from-app-catalog-en.png) *Deleting the package from the App Catalog* 3\. The package is moved to the **recycle bin of the App Catalog site**. To remove it completely, open the App Catalog site (its address is shown on the **Manage apps** page), go to **Site contents → Recycle bin**, delete the package there and then once more from the **Second-stage recycle bin**. Until then the package can be restored. ❗ **Important** As soon as the package is deleted, every remaining instance of its web parts stops working — on pages you missed in step 1 and on sites where the app was not removed. The package has to be restored from the recycle bin to make them work again. If the product was used widely, consider disabling it first: select the package, open **Properties**, clear **Enabled**, and wait for feedback from site owners before deleting. If the product was also deployed from **site collection app catalogs**, delete it from the **Apps for SharePoint** library of each of those site collections in the same way. ## Step 5. Revoke the API permissions Deleting a package does not revoke the Microsoft Graph or Azure DevOps permissions that were approved for it. The grants are tenant-wide and are shared by all SPFx solutions, so revoke them only if no other solution needs them. 1. In the SharePoint admin center, expand **Advanced** and open **API access**. 2. On the **Approved requests** tab, select the permission and click **Remove**. Repeat for each permission that only the removed product used. The permissions of each product and the shared nature of the grants are described in [KB10360. How to Approve Microsoft Graph API Permissions for Vitextra Solutions in the SharePoint Admin Center](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10360). Products without API permissions (List Filter Online, Smart Tiles, Quick Poll, QR Code Generator, Announcements Carousel, Questions & Answers, RSS Reader, Smart Search) skip this step. ## Data created by the product Removing a web part or a package never deletes the data it worked with. Decide for each product what to keep: | Product | Where the data is | What to do | |---|---|---| | Absence & Coverage | Six SharePoint lists on the selected site: *AbsenceTypes*, *Absences*, *Substitutions*, *Balances*, *Holidays*, *Settings* | Export to Excel or CSV if needed, then delete the lists | | Quick Poll | The lists *Vitextra Quick Poll Questions* and *Vitextra Quick Poll Responses* on the site | Keep as ordinary lists or delete them | | Questions & Answers, Announcements Carousel | The custom list or Announcements list that was selected or created for the web part | Keep as ordinary lists or delete them | | Password Vault | The encrypted file *vitextra-password-vault.json* in the application folder of each user's OneDrive (*Apps* folder) | Users export their entries before the removal and can delete the file themselves | | Employee Details | Profile fields that users edited are stored in their Microsoft Entra ID profile, not in the web part | Nothing to clean up; the data remains part of the user profiles | | Employee Directory, Organizational Chart, My Tasks, Smart Search, RSS Reader | Read data from Microsoft 365 or external feeds; nothing is created in SharePoint beyond the web part settings on pages | Nothing to clean up | | Smart Tiles, QR Code Generator, List Filter Online | Settings in the web part properties on the page | Removed with the web part in step 1 | Data that some products keep in the browser — the directory cache of Employee Directory and Organizational Chart, the personal view settings of My Tasks, the saved filters of List Filter Online and the saved searches of Smart Search — stays on the users' devices until the browser data of the site is cleared. For a complete inventory, see [KB10363. Where Vitextra Products Store Your Data: Privacy, Data Residency and GDPR](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10363). ## Step 6. Release the license Uninstalling does not change your subscription. Sign in at [vitextra.com](https://vitextra.com), open **Account → My Subscriptions**, select the subscription and either **Remove** the license assignment of the tenant (if you plan to use the license in another tenant) or **Cancel Subscription**. The steps are described in [KB10037. How to Manage Your Vitextra Subscription](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10037). If the product was only in trial, there is nothing to do. 📝 **Note** If you install the product again later, the trial does not start over: the trial period is tied to the tenant and the product. A product whose trial has already ended needs a license immediately after the reinstallation. ## Checklist 1. Web parts deleted from all pages, pages republished. 2. App removed from every site where it was added individually. 3. Custom app deleted in the Teams admin center and removed from setup policies. 4. Package deleted from the tenant App Catalog (and from site collection app catalogs) and from both recycle bins. 5. API permissions that only this product used removed on the **API access** page. 6. Data exported or deleted deliberately. 7. License assignment removed or subscription cancelled.