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Ramsay Zaki's avatar
Ramsay Zaki
Copper Contributor
Nov 02, 2017
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Delete Group but not Team

Whenever a new Team is created it automatically creates a Group. Initially deleting the Group does not delete the Team but all of a sudden the Teams are now also gone.   I'm not sure if our admin c...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Nov 02, 2017

    Cian is right, you cannot have a stand alone Team. The reason why the group got deleted and it took awhile cause of just back end processes. When group is deleted it doesn't really get deleted goes into recycle bin etc. so the Team still references the object, then eventually cleanup job kills the Team too. Most of Teams has azure tie ins and mostly ties into Mailboxes with Exchange online and new Skype for Business stack.

     

    You best bet, is just pretend the group isn't there and hide the addresses from the address list. But a group is def. requirement of a Team. You also get a SharePoint site with the group as well. 

     

    Here is a very good info-graphic going over what gets created with each type of product you start from etc. 

Cian Allner's avatar
Cian Allner
Silver Contributor
Nov 02, 2017

No, I don't think so, they work hand in hand - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/MicrosoftTeams/teams-overview:

 

"Microsoft Teams is built on existing Microsoft technologies woven together by Office 365 Groups."

 

Also, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/MicrosoftTeams/office-365-groups.  This behaviour is mentioned in thehttps://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Known-issues-for-Microsoft-Teams-04b35d1b-bdca-420a-991b-878da5157650 and is expected:

 

 

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