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Deleting SharePoint Sites / Office 365 Groups that contain records
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.
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 :-)
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.
Yes....but my point is that O365 let me delete the Group containing the Site Collection that contained the records. If that was expected behaviour, the records should still exist in tenant somewhere and be discoverable.
BTW that Preservation Hold library doesn't exist....because you can't delete records or retained documents in SharePoint. Microsoft just haven't updated their documentation.
Will raise a ticket and thanks again for your time in trying to help me with this.
Hi Ady,
Did you get any official response from Microsoft on this issue. We are doing some research on groups and found this issue of owners able to delete everything related to the group, and records are not taken in count. On prem, when you try to delete a site collection having records in it will prevent you from doing so, same as deleting a content type in use.
Looks like we have a lot of gaps in SP Online.
