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Ady Foot
Copper Contributor
Apr 26, 2018

Deleting SharePoint Sites / Office 365 Groups that contain records

Hi,   I did a bit of an experiment, using the Office 365 Advanced Data Governance features, and think I've found a bit of a flaw in the system.   I create two labels - 1 called 'Finance' and 1 ca...
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VasilMichev's avatar
VasilMichev
MVP
Apr 26, 2018

Have you checked whether the underlying site collection still exists? 

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Ady Foot
Copper Contributor
Apr 27, 2018

Hi Vasil,

 

Thanks for your reply.  I have indeed checked - because that's what I thought might have happened - but, no, the site collection was deleted.

 

Regards,

 

Ady

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    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Apr 27, 2018

    Which kinda explains why you are not seeing any results in eDiscovery... I guess time to open a support ticket to get a proper answer as to whether this is the expected behavior.

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      Ady Foot
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 27, 2018

      Thanks Vasil.  It doesn't really explain why eDiscovery doesn't show the items - because Microsoft state that it should be able to...because the items should not have been permanently deleted.  My understanding is that they would be transferred to some kind of behind-the-scenes storage area for records.

       

      I shall raise a ticket and expect the usual painful process of having someone understanding this issue without just pointing me to reference articles I've already read :-)

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        VasilMichev
        MVP
        Apr 27, 2018

        Well it does - the "preservation library" is still part of that same site collection. If the site collection is gone, so is anything stored in the preservation library.