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Office 365 groups expiration is now in public preview

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Tom Batcheler
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Aug 09, 2017
Today we're announcing the public preview of Office 365 groups expiration for Azure Active Directory Premium customers. You can now manage the lifecycle of Office 365 groups, by setting an expiration...
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Stephan Swinford
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Aug 09, 2017

An FYI for anyone turning this on: If a Group is already older than the renewal time, they will receive an email from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com with a 'renew group' button within a few minutes.

 

Fortunately, we don't have very many groups, so when I enabled this for everyone I was able to send out a heads up to everyone pretty quickly, however if you have a large tenant, you'll probably want to communicate ahead of time why they're receiving these funny looking emails :)