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Shaun Hardneck
Aug 28, 2017Copper Contributor
How to Restore Deleted Office 365 Groups
How to restore deleted Office 365 Groups By default deleted Microsoft Office 365 groups are retained for 30 days. The groups which was deleted within 30 days are known as "soft-delete", and can b...
TonyRedmond
Sep 02, 2017MVP
IMPORTANT: If you use Remove-MsolGroup in PowerShell to delete a group, this will delete the group permanently. When using PowerShell to delete groups, it's best practice to use Remove-AzureADMSGroup to soft-delete the O365 group. That way you can get it back if needed.
Absolutely disagree. If you use PowerShell to delete Office 365 Groups, use the Remove-UnifiedGroup cmdlet. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238270%28v=exchg.160%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Remove-UnifiedGroup is purposely designed to deal with Office 365 Groups. Remove-AzureADMSGroup is a more general-purpose cmdlet to remove Azure AD Groups. It will work, but I think it is better practice to use the tool designed for the job...
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