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Assign/Delegate Permissions To Help Desk To Restore O365 Groups?
Hi all, (cross-post from the O365 Groups community) I searched but got no hits on this. Having implemented the Groups Expiration Policy, the 'Restore' need has naturally arisen. Despite the ve...
In general, you should be using the AAD cmdlets instead of Exchange Online ones, as Groups span more than just Exchange and AAD is the "source of authority". But given how bad RBAC is for AAD, you might as well consider sticking to good old Exchange...
The cmdlets you need are
Get-UnifiedGroup -IncludeSoftDeletedGroups
Undo-SoftDeletedUnifiedGroup
The "minimal" role that has those is the "Mail Recipient Creation" one, so you can just assign it to the help desk staff. As the role includes more than just those two cmdlets, you might as well consider creating a custom role.