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O365 Group Retention Policy - Group Deletion
1) Depends on the policy scope, but generally speaking yes - if applied to a Group the policy covers both the mailbox and the SPO site
2) Yes, as different workloads handle retention differently. In particular, Exchange will turn the group mailbox into "inactive" one, but SPO will keep the site.
3) Again depends on the policy, but generally speaking yes
4) They can, but it depends on which "endpoint" they will use
5) The purpose of retention policy is compliance, and you definitely don't want end users to be able to bypass functionalities that relate to compliance
Thanks for the reply. The retention policy is very simple:
- applied to all Office 365 groups
- retain for 3 years
- do not delete after this time
- retain or delete the content based on when it was created
We have many O365 groups created for the purpose of Planner and not one of them have documents in the SPO sites. We have many test O365 groups that were created, that created SPO sites and none of it is needed because the group was a test. With the deletion of the O365 group, the empty SPO site remains.
If SPO keeps the site, while the mailbox and O365 group is deleted, how can I remove these orphaned SPO sites? Remove the policy, delete the SPO and then establish the policy again?
That's one way to go, you should also be able to exclude them from the policy while keeping it active.
