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O365 Group Retention Policy - Group Deletion
I am finding orphaned modern experience SharePoint sites, not connected to an O365 group. What I have determined is that a retention policy is in place for O365 groups, which I assume affects SharePo...
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.